TOKYO, March 29 — Oscars best picture winner Oppenheimer was finally released on Friday in Japan, where its subject — the man who masterminded the creation of the atomic bomb — is a highly sensitive and emotional topic. The US blockbuster hit screens in the United States and many other countries in July at the … Read more
LONDON, March 29 — British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan, fresh from his Oscar victory for historical drama Oppenheimer, will receive a knighthood from Britain for services to film. His wife and film producer Emma Thomas will receive a damehood, the female equivalent of a knighthood, the British government said on Thursday in a list of honours … Read more
HOLLYWOOD, March 11 — Robert Downey Jr yesterday won his first Academy Award, a best supporting actor statuette for his villainous turn in Oppenheimer — a golden moment in a decades-long career of highs and lows, on and off the screen. The Oscar triumph for the 58-year-old American capped a glittering awards season, during which … Read more
LOS ANGELES, March 11 — Cillian Murphy earned his first Academy Award for his portrayal in Oppenheimer of the physicist who led the United States’ development of the atomic bomb during World War Two. The win caps a successful awards season for the 47-year-old Irish actor, who also picked up a Golden Globe, a Bafta … Read more
LOS ANGELES, March 11 — Oppenheimer, the blockbuster biopic about the race to build the first atomic bomb, claimed the prestigious best picture trophy at the Academy Awards yesterday. Director Christopher Nolan’s film starred Irish actor Cillian Murphy as theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the US effort in the 1940s to create a … Read more
NEW YORK, March 10 — Kai Bird has just returned from the Jaipur literature festival, where he signed countless copies of his two-decade-old book for hundreds of young Indians who all watched the film Oppenheimer. American Prometheus, Bird’s Pulitzer-winning biography of the father of the atomic bomb, was the basis for the US$1 billion (RM4.7 … Read more
LOS ANGELES, March 9 ― The chain reaction set off by the fusion of Barbie and Oppenheimer will come to a head this Sunday at the Oscars, where one is expected to own the red carpet, and the other to dominate the awards. Oppenheimer ― Christopher Nolan’s epic drama about the father of the atomic … Read more
LOS ALAMOS, March 3 — Christopher Nolan’s US$1 billion-grossing Oppenheimer hasn’t just lined the pockets of Hollywood studio executives — it has also brought an unexpected windfall to the secretive community of Los Alamos. The movie, the clear frontrunner to win best picture at the Oscars on March 10, tells the story of the invention … Read more
LOS ANGELES, Feb 25 — Oppenheimer took top honours at the Screen Actors Guild Awards yesterday, as Hollywood stars partied at their union’s first prize-giving gala since staging its longest-ever strike last year. The prestigious prize for best performance by a cast at the SAG Awards is historically a strong predictor for the Oscars, and … Read more
LONDON, Feb 19 — Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s epic movie about the creation of the atomic bomb, swept the board at yesterday’s Bafta film awards in London, delivering a serious statement ahead of next month’s Oscars. The movie earned seven awards in total, including best film, best director for Nolan, best actor for Cillian Murphy and … Read more
