The Academy finally gives in to the British director, who has collected two of the three statuettes he was up for tonight.
On five occasions Christopher Nolan had chosen to Oscar before Oppenheimer, but none of them received enough attention from the Academy to grant him the award. The biopic of the father of the atomic bomb has turned the tables.
This morning the awards ceremony for the 96th edition of the Oscar Awards was held, where Oppenheimer left no room for surprises and won in seven of the thirteen categories in which it was nominated.
On two of those occasions, Christopher Nolan has been able to go on stage Dolby Theatre to collect a statuette, including the most coveted award for a director: Best Direction.
It couldn't be in the category of Best Adapted Screenplaywhere American Fiction has beaten both Oppenheimer and Barbie, but Christopher Nolan has said goodbye to his curse twice.
Christopher Nolan removes his Oscar thorn
Despite being a director scandalously popular, Christopher Nolan had not seen that commercial success translated into the most prestigious awards of the Seventh Art.
Like the movie starring Cillian Murphyfilms like Memento or Inception were up for the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, but failed to win the final prize. Furthermore, both Inception and Dunkirk were nominated for the most coveted Oscar in cinema: Best film.
The Hollywood Academy did not find it appropriate, until Oppenheimer, to nominate Christopher Nolan for Best Director, so the director has made it his first opportunity in that category.
With two of the three nominal Oscars he has received tonight, Christopher Nolan puts an end to more than two decades of attempts to gain a foothold in the most prestigious film awards.
What will the director have in store for us after Oppenheimer? We may have to wait a few years to see it, but we are sure of one thing: Christopher Nolan will once again be something to talk about after winning his first two Oscars.