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“Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s biographical thriller about the career of renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, is racking up major film awards just weeks before the Academy Awards. In the 30th annual edition Screen Actors Guild Awards On February 24, the film beat out four other nominees — Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction,” Blitz Bazawule’s “The Color Purple” and Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” — to win the award for best cast in a film award. The next night, at the Producers Guild of America Awards, the film still took home another jackpotDarryl F. Zanuck PGA Award for Outstanding Theatrical Motion Picture Producer.
The Zanuck Award winner also won the best picture Oscar for five of the last six years, including last year with Daniels’ hit absurdist comedy-drama “Everything, Everywhere All at Once.”
“Oppenheimer” leads this year’s Oscar nominations with 13 nods in total. It is currently the projected winner in the best picture category, which also includes “American Fiction,” “Anatomy of a Fall,” “Barbie,” “The Holdivers,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro,” “Past Lives”, “Poor Things” and “The Zone of Interest”.
“Oppenheimer” also celebrated wins at the Golden Globes and Directors Guild Awards. During Sunday’s presentation, Nolan thanked fellow producer Charles Royen for giving him “American Prometheus,” the book that inspired “Oppenheimer” and “starting a chain reaction that has spread around the world.” Robert Downey Jr., who plays Lewis Strauss in the film, also called it “the highest-grossing film about theoretical physics ever made.”