Al Bilad newspaper Oppenheimer snatches an additional distinguished award before the Oscars – 2024-02-12 14:35:05

The film “Oppenheimer” achieved an important victory on Saturday evening, winning the main award presented by the Directors Guild of America (DGA).
This award is usually a strong indicator of Oscar winners, raising expectations that director Christopher Nolan may receive cinema’s highest honor this year, after a long wait.
The British director, whose large-scale films often achieve great commercial success, but are not always able to win cinematic awards, won the title of Best Picture during the 75th celebration of the Directors Guild of America Awards.
“The idea that my colleagues think I deserve this award means a lot to me,” Nolan said about his film, which deals with the biography of the inventor of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, in which the role of Irish actor Cillian Murphy is played.
Four of Nolan’s previous films – “Memento”, “The Dark Knight”, “Inception” and “Dunkirk” – were previously nominated for the DGA Grand Prix, but none of them won.

To the Oscars?
The director can now crown his film next month at the 96th Academy Awards celebration, after failing 5 times to obtain the grand reward. This year, Oppenheimer received 13 nominations.
Upon receiving the DGA Award, Nolan praised his team for successfully translating his ambitious visions, including creating an amazing replica of the first atomic bomb test.
He said during the celebration, “Sorry, guys! It all depends on you and your teams. You have never achieved a success similar to what you achieved at Oppenheimer.”
Nolan competed for the DGA Award for Best Picture this year with Martin Scorsese for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Greta Gerwig for “Barbie,” Yorgos Lanthimos for “Poor Things,” and Alexander Payne for “Poor Things.” The Holdovers.
Eighteen of the last twenty winners of the DJA Award also received the Best Director award in the same year at the Oscars ceremony, which will be held this year on March 10. The Best Documentary Award was given to the tape “20 Days in Mariupol.” Which deals with the story of the war extending to a Ukrainian city that became the scene of one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles during the Russian invasion.
The film’s director Mstislav Chernov said, “Today my city was bombed and 7 people were killed, including 3 children. It is a sad day.”
He added, “At the same time, I realize the power of cinema. When these people flee from the bombs that fall on them, they stay in the basements and watch movies to overcome their fear.”
As for the television works that the DGA also rewards, the series “The Last of Us” won the award for best episode of a drama series, and “The Bear” won the similar award in the comedy series category, according to AFP.