Christoper Nolan walked away from Oppenheimer with a handful of Oscars and had a massive payday.
The producer and director took home Best Director and Best Picture at the 94th Academy Awards for his massive blockbuster Oppenheimer. A recent piece from Variety post-Oscars revealed that the filmmaker walked away making “just south of $100 million.”
Per the report, those figures “represent a combination of salary, backend compensation, box-office escalators,” and a bonus for walking away with two Oscars for the Universal Studios production. Oppenheimer took home seven Oscars in total, including trophies for actor Cillian Murphy and supporting actor Robert Downey Jr., as well as Best Score.
Oppenheimer was made on a budget of $100 million and earned $958 million worldwide, a reported rare feat for an R-rated biopic that ran three hours. In addition to the awards, the film is also breaking records as the highest-grossing Best Picture winner since 2004’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Nolan has all eyes on him, with fans eager to know his next move. Depending on what you believe, the filmmaker is reportedly in talks for a James Bond film, an original film, or a remake of the mystery-thriller The Prisoner from the 1960s.
Oppenheimer is being rereleased in 1,000 theaters this weekend, which will likely take the film to over $1 billion at the box office.
Written for the screen and directed by Christopher Nolan, OPPENHEIMER, thrusts audiences into the mind of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), whose landmark work as the director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory created the first atomic bomb.
Starring alongside Cillian Murphy’s titular scientist are Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Casey Affleck, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Dylan Arnold, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich, David Dastmalchian, Olli Haaskivi, Jason Clarke, James D’Arcy, Michael Angarano, Guy Burnet, Danny Deferrari, Matthias Schweighöfer, Gary Oldman, Harrison Gilbertson, Emma Dumont, Devon Bostick, Trond Fausa, Christopher Denham and Josh Zuckerman
