•Oppenheimer swept the board at the Oscars, Hollywood’s biggest night of the year, with seven awards including best picture and best director, triumphant year for filmmaker Christopher Nolan.
•Nolan’s masterful drama about the father of the atomic bomb,
•Robert Downey Jr. was recognised for his stellar performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer’s political nemesis Lewis Strauss.
•It seemed fitting that the story of the development of nuclear weapons was recognized on a night where the drumbeat of war was never far away.
•The other huge smash of 2023, Greta Gerwig’s pop feminist blockbuster Barbie, featured heavily throughout the gala in Los Angeles.
•The movie, which grossed $1.4 billion at the box office, only won one Oscar for best original song,.
•Several nominees wore lapel pins calling for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.