Why Oppenheimer Will Win Best Picture
'Tis the week before the Oscars, and no less than 10 films are ramping up their campaigns in a last-minute push for the top prize of them all, Best Picture. The biggest award has the potential to be either one of the most anticlimactic or most surprising result in recent years. The former is true, because one film has won the vast majority of the top prizes on the awards circuit thus far, the gargantuan Oppenheimer. However, not only would the 3+ hour, half black-and-white, half color biopic be a wildly abnormal winner, few if any other top contenders are traditional 'Oscar bait,' and none also are without its detractors.
Those facts, as well as the Oscars' less predictable preferential voting system means that no nominee can truly be counted out of the race. Spotlight's and Moonlight's back-to-back upsets in 2016 and 2017, Parasite's stunner in 2020, and CODA's late surge in 2022 all taught us to expect the unexpected, so we're here to give fans of all 10 nominees reason to believe on Sunday the 10th.
This may be the biggest award of the night, but it's also probably the biggest done deal of the evening. With the exception of Poor Things winning Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) at the Golden Globes, Oppenheimer has won every single thing it needs to in order to win the big prize: Golden Globe Best Picture (Drama), Critics Choice, PGA, SAG, DGA, you name it, Oppenheimer has won it! And for good reason. "Barbenheimer" was the cultural phenomenon of 2023, not to mention this film being the critical achievement of Christopher Nolan’s career, making close to a billion dollars at the box office. Not since Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King has a movie been able to gather this much awards recognition while also being seen by the masses. Hollywood will want to reward that and have this go down in the history books.
The cherry on top is the slew of other awards it’s a lock to win. Best Actor, Supporting Actor, Score, Director, and probably a bunch of others. The acting wins this will surely have show that this isn’t just another tech juggernaut like Mad Max: Fury Road or Gravity. It shows how seriously all branches in the industry are taking this movie. This will also be the much needed jolt of energy that the Academy needs to get people interested again: getting to nominate this and Barbie was the best thing that ever happened to them. It was only inevitable one of them would win!
Congrats Oppy!
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