An Oscar’s Recap
I know this is kind of late but a couple of weeks ago were the 2024 Oscars. There were some surprises but most of the winners weren’t surprises. But there was and will always be potential for upsets. Many awards are leading up to the big one, which is the Oscars, the big behemoth this award season has been Christoper Nolan’s Oppenheimer which is based on the book American Prometheus written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sterwin. Oppenheimer is about the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer a physicist who helped create the atomic bomb during World War 2. Thanks to the Oscar gods Dune Part 2 moved out of 2023 and into 2024 because if it didn’t Oppenheimer would have not won as many awards as it did. The only potential movie that could upset Oppenheimer would be Poor Things.
This year marked some historic landmarks for the Oscars including Lily Gladstone becoming the first ever Native American to be nominated for an Oscar. She was nominated for Killers Of The Flower Moon which is directed by Martin Scorsese and is about the murders of the Osage tribe in Oklahoma for their land which contained oil. In my opinion, Lily Gladstone should have won the Oscar for Actress In A Leading Role. She lost to Emma Stone who won for Poor Things which was her second nomination and won after she won the award for La La Land in 2017.
After years of being nominated for his movies like Memento, Inception, Dunkirk, and Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan finally won his best director and for best picture. As someone who never went to film school and has been able to tell some of the most mind-altering stories going back to his early days with The Following. Somehow he has figured out a way to tell complex stories to the general audience without them feeling lost or confused from stories that mess with time to stories that are focused on a team of thieves who use dreams to steal information or even one about physicists, wormholes, and traveling through space. He has even managed to explain the creation of the atomic bomb. Nolan is one of the few directors working today. When you see his name in front of a movie you know it is going to be good and make plenty of money. His movies have made over $6 Billion combined with his most recent Oppenheimer being a 3-hour-long biopic movie grossing over $960 million. Way higher than anyone expected the movie to gross.
At the end of the day, I think this was one of the best Oscar shows in years. Then the Oscars viewership keeps going up and up each year after years of declining. As a movie fan, I always look forward to the Oscars every year. The only thing that drives me insane is every year you always hear people complain about how their favorite movie was snubbed from a nomination or winning their reward. There have been a couple of times where I do agree with it but most times I feel like it is people exaggerating plus people very quickly move on.
