On video: Oppenheimer being announced as the best film of 2023/courtesy of AMPAS© 2024, yes and +STING
Last Sunday, Christopher Nolan won the Oscar for the first time in his impressive career, for the film "Oppenheimer".
In fact Nolan took two statuettes - one for directing and one for best film, which he is one of the producers of.
These two wins, which were part of seven that the film won in total, pocketed an additional cash bonus that brought his earnings from the film to a huge figure.
According to knowledgeable sources, the "Variety" website reports, Nolan has so far earned almost 100 million dollars from "Oppenheimer".
This figure represents a combination of salary, percentage of the film's success, bonuses according to the degrees of box office profits, and now also a bonus for his pair of Academy Awards.
The film has so far grossed $958 million at the worldwide box office.
In view of the fresh win, it is expected to be released again this weekend across the United States, under the promotion "winner of seven Oscars", which is expected to help it cross the billion dollar mark.
This milestone will net Nolan another handsome bonus.
All this before taking into account the fact that the director's wife, Emma Thomas, also produced the film with him and also earns very handsomely.
Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas backstage at the Oscars after their win/GettyImages, Al Seib/AMPAS via Getty Images
The high figures of "Oppenheimer" are not obvious, since it is limited to adults over the age of 17 and is about three hours long - two barriers that usually make it difficult to find a wide audience.
Despite this, it became a huge global hit, and in fact it is the winner of the Academy Award for the best-grossing film since The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2004.
Besides the four awards mentioned above, he also won the Academy Awards for cinematography, editing and original soundtrack.
The film is a biographical war drama that traces the impossible dilemma of the genius and enigmatic scientist Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the nuclear bomb, who must risk destroying the world to save it.
Cillian Murphy stars in the lead role and won an Oscar for it, Emily Blunt plays his wife, the biologist and botanist Catherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer.
Besides them, the cast also includes Robert Downey Jr., who also won his first Oscar for his role here, as well as Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek and Kenneth Branagh.
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