“Culture is a bit limited as to how many apocalypses they can worry about at one time," Christopher Nolan told Vulture's Bilge Ebiri back in July, beforeBarbenheimerexploded into theaters. “When I first told one of my kids about what I was working on withOppenheimer, they literally said to me, ‘Well, no one really worries anymore about nuclear weapons and war.’ To which my response was, ‘Well, maybe they should.’”Oppenheimerhas, in many ways, always been this year's Best Picture front-runner — a heady Nolan biopic and one half of a genuine theatrical phenomenon. A critical darling and a mainstream hit. Three-quarters of a year after our interview, the film seems all but destined to dominate this year's Oscars ceremony ("To borrow a phrase," our Oscar Futures columnist Nate Jones wrote inhis annual Oscars predictions, "it’s won everything, everywhere, all at once, and it’s going to win a lot more on Sunday"), though its rivals are no slouches. Ahead of Hollywood's big night, catch up on Vulture's best writing about the season ofOppenheimer(andBarbieandAnatomy of a FallandThe Holdoversand ...) below.
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