The Academy Awards, the highest honor in the American film industry, have been announced, and ``Oppenheimer'', which is based on a scholar who directed the development of the atomic bomb, attracted attention as it received 13 nominations, the most, and received 7 awards including Best Picture and Best Director. won the category.
"Oppenheimer" is a work directed by Christopher Nolan, who has worked on popular films such as "Interstellar" and "Inception."
This movie is about Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who led the so-called Manhattan Project, a program to develop the atomic bomb in the United States during World War II.
The film depicts how Oppenheimer, who led mankind's first successful nuclear test, learns of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the devastation caused, and becomes increasingly distressed about having developed the atomic bomb.
This film won a record 7 awards at the British Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, as well as 5 awards at the Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture, Drama, Director, and Score. It has been evaluated.
Director: ``The answer to the nuclear threat must not be despair''
Director Christopher Nolan, who directed "Oppenheimer," which won seven awards including Best Picture and Best Director, was asked at a press conference after winning the award about the message this film poses to young people. He shared an episode in which he talked about the work with his teenage son when he was working on the production, saying, ``My son said, ``Young people aren't too worried about nuclear weapons.'' Nuclear weapons are what they fear most. "I hope that by having this work seen by many people, it will help spread awareness about nuclear weapons."
``This work ends in a state of despair, which I thought was necessary, but in the real world, the answer to the nuclear threat should not be despair.'' After 1967, the world Noting that the number of nuclear weapons has decreased significantly, he said, ``Over the past few years, the movement toward nuclear non-proliferation has also moved in the wrong direction. "It will be important to support and support organizations that lobby politicians and leaders to make the world safer," he said, calling for the need to work on nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation.