Winner of Best Picture, Best Leading Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), Best Director (Christopher Nolan), Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing and Best Original Score at the Academy Awards.

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an IMAX®-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it. The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Oscar® winner Matt Damon portrays General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey, Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Academy Award® nominee Florence Pugh plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber and Josh Hartnett plays pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence. Oppenheimer also stars Oscar® winner Rami Malek and reunites Nolan with eight-time Oscar® nominated actor, writer and filmmaker Kenneth Branagh.

Rating

MA 15

Duration

180 min

Cast

David Krumholtz, Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh, Jason Clarke, Rami Malek, Emily Blunt, Dane DeHaan, Olivia Thirlby, David Dastmalchian, Matt Damon, Josh Hartnett, Matthew Modine, Matthias Schweighöfer, Alden Ehrenreich, Florence Pugh, Tony Goldwyn, Benny Safdie, Jack Quaid, Alex Wolff, Michael Angarano, Robert Downey Jr., Dylan Arnold

Director

Christopher Nolan

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