At the 96th Academy Awards, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was nominated in thirteen different categories. It won big, taking home the largest prizes of the evening, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor. The movie will soon be available to view on the over-the-top platform.
Beginning on March 21, 2024, Oppenheimer will be accessible for streaming on JioCinema in both Hindi and English.
Based on actual events, the movie received great reviews from reviewers and was a big smash at the box office. The film, which was directed by Christopher Nolan and stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., and numerous other celebrities, is an engrossing account of perseverance, hard work, and triumph.
World War 2 is the setting against which the film is set. J. Robert Oppenheimer is appointed by Engineer Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves to work on the highly classified Manhattan Project during World War II. Oppenheimer spent many years developing the atomic bomb with the help of a group of scientists. History is altered as they construct the most lethal weapon ever made.
The film’s cast includes Kenneth Branagh as Niels Bohr, Casey Affleck as Boris Pash, a US Army military intelligence officer and commander of the Also Mission, Rami Malek as David L. Hill, a nuclear physicist at the Met Lab who helped to create the Chicago Pile, a retired Naval Reserve officer and high-ranking member of the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Hap Lawrence as Lyndon B. Johnson, Gary Oldman as Harry S. Truman, Pat Skipper as James F. Byrnes, Will Roberts as George C. Marshall, and Casey Affleck as Boris Pash, among others.
The film explores the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a gifted theoretical physicist from the United States who was instrumental in developing the atomic bomb during World War II. It details his incredible journey—he is frequently referred to as the “father of the atomic bomb”—in detail. Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan, and Charles Rovan produced the movie under the labels Syncopy and Atlas Entertainment. Jennifer Lame edited the film, while Hoyte van Hoytema handled the cinematography.