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Directed by | Christopher Nolan |
Screenplay by | Christopher Nolan |
Based on | American Prometheus by
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Cinematography | Hoyte van Hoytema |
Edited by | Jennifer Lame |
Music by | Ludwig Göransson |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 181 minutes[1] |
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Language | English |
Budget | $100 million[2] |
Box office | $965 million[3][4] |
Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller movie written and directed by Christopher Nolan. It is based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. The movie is about the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who helped create the first nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project.
It was released on July 21, 2023 to positive reviews.
With $965 million at the box office, Oppenheimer is the highest-grossing biographical movie of all time, beating Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).[5][6]
The movie has won multiple awards including five Golden Globe Awards and seven at the 77th British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film.[7] It is nominated for 13 categories at the 96th Academy Awards, which includes the Best Picture category.[8] At the 96th Academy Awards, Oppenheimer would win seven awards including Best Picture.[9]
Cillian Murphy plays Oppenheimer, with Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer's wife, Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves, Oppenheimer's military handler, Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, a senior member of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, and Florence Pugh as psychiatrist and Oppenheimer's mistress Jean Tatlock. Other members of the supporting cast include Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Benny Safdie, Jason Clarke, Dylan Arnold, Gustaf Skarsgård, David Krumholtz, Matthew Modine and Tom Conti.
Oppenheimer premiered at Le Grand Rex in Paris on July 11, 2023, and was released in the United States and United Kingdom on July 21, by Universal Pictures. It is Nolan's first movie not to be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures domestically or internationally since Memento (2000). The movie had strong positive reviews with a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.[10]
The movie was released on the same day as Barbie, a fantasy comedy movie directed by Greta Gerwig. Since the two movies have completely different tones and genres, many social media users have taken to making memes about how the two movies represent different audiences,[11] and how they should be seen as a double feature.[12] The trend has been called "Barbenheimer".[13]