Christopher Nolan and the 'Oppenheimer' creative team speak backstage at the 96th Academy Awards, which aired on Sunday on ABC. Nolan won Best Director and his film won Best Picture.
Let's take a moment to appreciate the sheer estatistical miracle of having a kid you went to school with to be the first person to ask you before winning your first Oscar. Mind-blowing
My first Nolan film was Insomnia but I didn't really get it until The Dark Knight. It's hard to see a man who continually works with 9 figure budgets as a pure auteur, but as filmmakers go, I don't believe there is anyone in the industry as dedicated to scripting and shaping the narrative as he is. An apex filmmaker at his creative apex. My favorite director of all time.
And he looks SO HAPPY... I mean, I don't know him in person but You can see the joy... And comparing to other videos and interviews where he is a serious person. It's like a child with a candy. Glad to see him so spontaneous and charismatic.
@@Revolver1981 It made 950 million and won 7 oscars. Something like this happened last time when Return of the King was released. I wouldn't call such rare films overrated. May be overrated to those who have the patience of a 5 year old who doesn't quite understand what's going on. No worries though, Fast and Furious is coming next year for you.
@@subhashismandal9871 Explain why the best movie of the year Killers of the Flower Moon won nothing? Nominated for 10 awards. De Niro should've won for best Supporting Actor, Scorsese should've won for Best Director, Lily Gladstone should've won Best Actress although I think Emma Stone deserved it as well, and the film should've won Best Picture.
He usually seems very reserved in public, but it's so nice to see him express this moment with some outward happiness. Such a well deserved list of awards.
@@rajwindersingh6087 State of the art sci-fi landscape are deployed in service of Hallmark homelies about how people should live and what’s really important. A daddy issue ridden story who uses booming music to jack up the excitement level of scenes that might not otherwise excite. It is featuring characters shoveling exposition at each others for almost 3h, and a few characters have no character to speak of, they are mouthpieces for thecno-babble and pseudo philosophical debate. It borrows from John Ford, Kubrick’s 2001, To kill a mockingbird even Spielberg… We recognize Nolan obsession about time he tackles on other movies before and after. In all transparency, Dunkerque is my favorite Nolan movie, not Tenet, not Batman and certainly not Interstellar. Was it enough for you my friend ?
Absolutely well deserved Oscar wins for Oppenheimer, the movie was incredible, one of the best I have seen in a long time. Happy to see Christopher Nolan get his long deserved Oscar win for best director, truly one of the greatest directors today. Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. gave the performances of a lifetime in the movie, happy to see them win too.
Christopher Nolan is and has been for awhile the greatest Director alive. Intelligent, creative, researched, talented, imaginative, and a risk taker. No one is enters his lane.
Christopher Nolan Has To Be One To The Best Directors To A Oscar For Best Director Best Picture Best Actor And Best Supporting Actor Best Original Score Best Film Editing Best Cinematopgraphy Good Job Christopher Nolan For Winning 7 Awards At The 96th Academy Award We Love You Christopher Nolan ❤
I watched his filmography for Oppenheimer’s release and it was such a fun journey and seeing him FINALLY win his long overdue Oscar made me cry tears of joy
This seems like a good place to note this: They literally needed to develop the workflow for shooting black and white IMAX 65 mm film. Did not exist before this film. There is a very interesting interview with the cinematographer that is worth searching out. I admire the work of Nolan, Emma Thomas and Hoyte van Hoytema so much.
Thank god he switched over to universal and taking a stand for theaters during the pandemic when everyone wanted to send it to stream. ie Dune 1. Everything he’s ever done are absolute master pieces. Interstellar, inception and taking on the ip Batman. Holding it up as the best Batman films ever made. This man deserved the Oscar decades ago.
I truly hope Chris knows that people want to his films. They will seek out the best format’s available, multiple viewings etc. Emma said it tonight. This is all because of Chris. Best director of all time.
Well deserved! Nolan's movies are so life altering. I'm not even exagerrating. This man, I followed since Memento, really changed my perspective on movies and life. That's adament to a real genius!
@@middleman9183all geniuses are flawed but the moments in theater I’ll always remember are from Nolan movies. Inception action sequence, Interstellar “mountains”, trinity test in Oppenheimer, and the list is endless.
When Nolan was talking about not young people not even knowledgeable with nuclear weapons, after seeing Oppenheimer not like right away, bc when I watched all I thought about was dayum such a awesome movie but like hours after I’ve started to keeping up with *at the time* with Ukraine Russia war like I was looking up anything involves or new with nuclear weapons. I liked that part of the interview when Nolan was saying his youngest Magnus was saying younger people not even concerned about nuclear weapons, Chris was like he never technically talked about anything messages in his films. I agree with that part bc it made me knowledgeable about Nuclear Weapons shows how dangerous are they. But congrats to Chris, Emma, Roven and Oppenhomies
He's very nice to people, love his mannerism, congrats Mr.Nolan!! I've been rooting for this moment since Dark knight 😭 next give it to Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino, three masterclass film bro directors thats have been robbed for their number one films
Congratulations to you Christopher Nolan for a wonderful bio movie. I just found my genetic connection to Julius 'J' Oppenheimer via his father Seligmann Julius Oppenheimer : Oppenheimer, Friedman, Stern, Julich lineage from Germany. I feel honored they are my family
the 50/50 thing always seems like a odd thing to hang on, I think it's great in concept but at the end of the day, it should be about who is most qualified. if that happens to be 70/30 or 30/70. You should be hired because of skill, not gender or race.
Wonder what direction he plans to go for his next project- his recent career has consistently alternated between "High Concept Sci-fi" and historical drama for the past decade. I'd want to guess we'll see a classic Nolan oddball film next.
Why should they? Villeneuve is already established as the new blockbuster legend working with them. Some key figures which worked with Nolan on movies like Dark Knight or Interstellar are now working with Villeneuve. Maybe the release date of Dune Part 2 reduced the chances for winning many Oscars next year, but I think this year it would've beaten Oppenheimer and Nolan for best film and best director at least. Win-win situation for both studios I guess.
@@frool76 Denis Villenueve isn’t as popular director and not as versatile as Chris Nolan Denis is not even a billion dollars director even now Nolan movies always make 600 to 900 dollars at the box office and those are original films like Inception,Interstellar,Dunkirk and Oppenheimer and his 2 Batman movies made billions those number Denis could have never reach so comparing Nolan to Denis is dumb.When Nolan movies was made WB never lose any money While Bladerunner 2049 atlist loses 100 million dollars.I please i dont believe if Dune 2 came this year that it will beat Oppenheimer.Sci fi genre is not popular thing in oscar Oppenheimer is a much more important subject matter.We have our own bias when it comes to someone but your take is dumb.WB knows that Nolan will always be a big lose for WB
@@PurushaDesa not denying that but what's the point of the question? Of course they will say it's important, so the reporter can write "Emma Thomas supports women in the industry"? It's like asking how important is it to eat? Of course it is, what's the point of asking
@@jasonlam8588 Sounded like the guy asking about "hateful young people" tried to bait Nolan into commenting on Gaza too. Kudos to Nolan for swerving that bait.
It's actually disgusting that the first question is not recognizing her work but her gender. That is not dumb, that's disrespecting everything she did to stand there. Reduced from being an exceptional artist to just being a woman.
4:00 this question seems to aim at the omission of native american suffering due to uranium mining. It's a bit odd that even when receiving a question that practically invites him to mention the native american struggle, he still refuses to do so or at least doesn't seem to think of this aspect.
The subject of the film creates weapons that ultimately kill hundreds of thousands of people in Japan, where the subject is rightfully sensitive and it took months to determine whether it would even be distributed, and you see this question pointed to the struggle of the native Americans in the 1940s?
No, this question doesn’t aim at specific omissions. It sounds like you’re projecting onto the question issues you personally had with the movie. Oppenheimer wasn’t about The Manhattan Project, Los Alamos, or the bombing of Japan. It was about J Robert Oppenheimer. Was the title too subtle?
You're wrong though. I love the movie. Other than that stretched out epilogue with the RDJ character I have zero gripes with it. The woman who asked the question is black and I know that the fact that they left out how native americans were directly negatively impacted by the Manhattan project, is certainly something that didn't go unnoticed by many minority groups. However, I ,personally, think the movie is a masterpiece@@BigNoseDog
Interstellar an absolute masterpiece of a film that was 1000000% snubbed. Nolan was too advance for the brains at the academy. Interstellar has influenced so much of film and tv writing in the last 13 yrs without its proper recognition. And I’m glad this man is getting the flowers he so rightfully deserved now. Every actor in Hollywood would drop everything to work with this man with or without pay. To be apart of his catalog of film would be a dream. Bravo
Oppenheimer was terrible. It was a great marketing gimmick with the 70mm IMAX film that most people never saw. There were only a handful of 70mm projectors in theaters. I watched a digital version in the theater. I don’t like any of his film except his first film Memento which he made when he was hungry. Now he went Hollywood and all his film fall flat.
That is the stupidest opinion I have ever heard. You don't have to like his previous work, but to say it falls flat because "he went Hollywood" is ridiculous considering he's known to be a complex director and became a well known person for the movies he filmed. Also, Memento wasn't his first movie, it was Following.
@@themarvelousjoe1501 The following wasn’t distributed due to its $6000 budget. No one saw it. Memento found distribution and grossed 40 million. That film put him on the map to Hollywood. I just don’t dig his new directing style. A lot of hype with no style.
@@rancosteel His style has always been focusing on characters in his perplexed storytelling and visual arts. Just cause his style is different, it doesn't mean it's bad. So maybe you don't find it appealing or watchable, but seeing how he has been doing it for decades now and made tons of successful films (besides Tenet), maybe you're missing something out of it.
This movie turned out to be a profound disappointment, costing me $20 that now feels wasted. My anticipation was fueled by glowing reviews and the intriguing historical connection between Oppenheimer and the recovery of crashed UFOs-termed 'Wheels' by the Nation of Islam. It was the advanced technology from these artifacts that supposedly played a significant role in the development of the atomic bomb. Unfortunately, the film shied away from delving into these compelling aspects, likely to avoid unveiling sensitive government secrets.
@@oneofgodsangels True is something, that is a well documented and proven fact...nothing about the BS you are spewing is a doccumented and historically established fact...
Actually, the A-Bomb was actually built thanks to the discoveries of this Italian doctor who found the tomb of a Russian ancient priest. Apparently the nuclear bomb runs on tears of unicorn and the ghosts of goblins. It's actually sad that this movie went on talking about nuclear fusion and that government lies. The CIA is plotting against us!!
Actually, the A-Bomb was actually built thanks to the discoveries of this Italian doctor who found the tomb of a Russian ancient priest. Apparently the nuclear bomb runs on tears of unicorn and the ghosts of goblins. It's actually sad that this movie went on talking about nuclear fusion and that government lies. The CIA is plotting against us!!
Isn´t this as well a sort of kinda rasistic coment? The movie obviously deserevs this award. Even though I would love to see a mention for freePalestine by artist having such a voice publicly.
So historical figures should be changed to appeal to the community who can't handle that they were white? Your comment is ridiculous, it's a historical movie, unfortunately Einstein and Oppenheimer were white, that can't be changed to appeal to the woke mob.
@@l.m.a.9861 Didn't Oscars say unless there's some kind of pandering happening in your movie, you don't get no award. I don't know if they actually enacted that yet.
@@M_k-zi3tn Not really, those were just guidelines not rules. They made them up to push for more diversity, but it obviously doesn’t affect who wins it.
Most everything he does is fantastic, I especially loved Memento, but it took me 3 tries to get through Oppenheimer. I found it to be plodding. For my money, Poor Things was best picture. That movie has it all, incredible set design, cinematography, costumes, wild story, sex, humor, top notch acting. Poor Things will forever be etched into my mind. Can't say the same about Oppenheimer.
not made a billion, just because you like it, it doesn't mean everyone wants that, i saw it, and at best thought it was a over stylised Frankenstein, if you dont get Oppenheimer you do not get what true art it. Oppenheimer is a masterpiece in cinema
