Oppenheimer is an Academy Award-winning film! Christopher Nolan and co. took home seven Oscars on Sunday night, including Best Picture and Best Director, and Jake and Marshall are here to recap it all. Plus, we talk about what else we liked in the ceremony, and where we think Nolan will go next now that he has an Oscar.

• Buy a copy of Oppenheimer 4K, Blu-ray, DVD, or digital
• Buy American Prometheus on Bookshop.org
• Buy The Nolan Variations on Bookshop.org
• Episode-by-episode media list (Google Doc)
• List of actors nominated for multiple Academy Awards in the same year (Wikipedia)
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Happy Oscars Sunday! Jake and Marshall are back with more in-depth predictions on how Oppenheimer will fare tonight, as well as some predictions on what should win, what they hope will win, and some memories from Oscars ceremonies past. Will Christopher Nolan finally win his own golden statue? Fill out those ballots and get ready for the red carpet, and we’ll see you after the Academy Awards to see how well our predictions held up.

• Buy Oppenheimer 4K, Blu-ray, DVD, or digital
• Buy American Prometheus on Bookshop.org
• Buy The Nolan Variations on Bookshop.org
• Download Letterboxd’s printable Oscar ballot (Letterboxd)
• IMAX In Conversation with Nolan and Villeneuve (YouTube)
• “No Director Has Weirder Rules on Set Than Christopher Nolan” (Collider)
• “J. Robert Oppenheimer Is Gonna Party His Ass Off at the Oscars” (McSweeney’s)
• “Cillian Murphy admits he was a mess after watching Interstellar” (Entertainment Weekly)
• 🏆 Oscars 2024 (Letterboxd list of predictions)
• The Letterboxd Oscars: 2024 Winners (Letterboxd list)
• Episode-by-episode media list (Google Doc)
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• Marshall’s Letterboxd: @MDoig
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• Jake’s Substack: Jacob’s Letter

Today we’re joined by a very special guest. Tom Shone, the author of The Nolan Variations himself, talked to us for a bit to promote the upcoming paperback version of his book about the films of Christopher Nolan, now with a new chapter on Oppenheimer.

We talked to Shone about writing that new chapter, Oppenheimer’s Oscars chances, what it was like working with Nolan, and more!

• Buy The Nolan Variations on Bookshop.org (Paperback coming this month!)
• Buy a copy of Oppenheimer 4K, Blu-ray, DVD, or digital
• Buy American Prometheus on Bookshop.org
• Episode-by-episode media list (Google Doc)
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• Twitter: @friendsatdusk
• Marshall’s Letterboxd: @MDoig
• Jake’s Letterboxd: @808jake_
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We’re back! It’s a holiday miracle. On this episode, Jake and Marshall are talking all about the most anticipated physical media release of the year: Oppenheimer on 4K Blu-ray.

The title quickly sold out at multiple outlets, but we each managed to get a copy so we could take a gander at all those sweet, sweet bonus features. Topics covered this episode include the importance of physical media (always), Spotify Wrapped stats from our listeners, and our favorite bonus features on the Blu-ray.

(Audio quality note: Due to a recording issue there is a faint, intermittent echo on Marshall’s track.)

• Buy a copy of Oppenheimer 4K, Blu-ray, DVD, or digital
• Buy American Prometheus on Bookshop.org
• Buy The Nolan Variations on Bookshop.org
• Episode-by-episode media list (Google Doc)
• “Subtitles On” (Twenty Thousand Hertz)
• Meet the Press Q&A panelists: Nolan, author Kai Bird, physicist Kip Thorne, Los Alamos National Laboratory director and physicist Thomas Mason, and physicist Carlo Rovelli
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The finale, the ending, the cut to black — whatever you call it, this is it! (For now.)

In this wrapup episode, Jake and Marshall look back on their yearlong journey through Christopher Nolan’s films and influences. Topics include the newly published Oppenheimer script, alternate names for the podcast, what's next, and of course, the guys’ (latest) official Nolan rankings.

Thank you so much for joining us, and we'll see you at the beginning, friends.

• Find where to watch all of Nolan’s filmography on JustWatch
• Buy The Nolan Variations on Bookshop.org
• Episode-by-episode media list (Google Doc)
• Bad behavior at ‘Barbenheimer’ reflects a worrying trend (The Washington Post)
• IndieWire’s Best Plot Twists of the 21st Century (Letterboxd)
• Christopher Nolan Defends Oppenheimer Sound, Refuses to Record ADR (Variety)
• Jake’s ranking of Disney theme park movies at Book & Film Globe
• Instagram: @friendsatduskpod
• Twitter: @friendsatdusk
• Marshall’s Letterboxd: @MDoig
• Marshall’s Nolan rankings on Letterboxd
• Jake’s Letterboxd: @808jake_
• Jake’s Nolan rankings on Letterboxd
• Jake’s Substack: Jacob’s Letter

Chapters

• (00:00:00) Opening, news, and what we're watching
• (00:21:56) "Oppenheimer" script reading
• (00:32:08) Behind the scenes, and what's next
• (00:55:58) Final rankings
• (01:43:38) Wrap-up

One episode wasn’t enough. Now that Barbenheimer Fever has gripped the nation, Jake and Marshall discuss their theatrical experience seeing Barbie and Oppenheimer on the same day in Austin, and delve deeper into the themes of Oppenheimer.

• Find tickets to see Oppenheimer in theaters now
• Find tickets to see Barbie in theaters now
• Buy American Prometheus on Bookshop.org
• Buy The Nolan Variations on Bookshop.org
• Episode-by-episode media list (Google Doc)
• Read Bilge Ebiri’s interview with Christopher Nolan at Vulture
• Listen to Marc Maron interview Cillian Murphy on the WTF podcast
• Christopher Nolan: After Oppenheimer, no more films during strike action (via BBC)
• Happy Sad Confused interview with Christopher Nolan (YouTube)
• Here’s why the best IMAX movies still need a Palm Pilot to work (The Verge)
• Scientific American blog post about Hans Bethe interview
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• Twitter: @friendsatdusk
• Marshall’s Letterboxd: @MDoig
• Jake’s Letterboxd: @808jake_
• Jake’s Substack: Jacob’s Letter

We did it! We made it to Oppenheimer. Here’s a quick episode on Jake and Marshall’s immediate thoughts about Christopher Nolan’s latest film, from the score to the editing to the performances and how well Nolan adapts Bird & Sherwin’s American Prometheus. More thoughts to come later!

• Find tickets to see Oppenheimer in theaters now
• Find tickets to see Barbie in theaters now
• Buy American Prometheus on Bookshop.org
• Buy The Nolan Variations on Bookshop.org
• Episode-by-episode media list (Google Doc)
• Instagram: @friendsatduskpod
• Twitter: @friendsatdusk
• Marshall’s Letterboxd: @MDoig
• Jake’s Letterboxd: @808jake_
• Jake’s Substack: Jacob’s Letter

It’s almost time! This is our last episode until Oppenheimer premieres in wide release. As such, we prepared as much as we can by reading American Prometheus, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s exhaustive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer.

We also watched The Day After Trinity, the 1981 documentary that chronicles the events of the Los Alamos test and acts as a kind of CliffsNotes on American Prometheus.

So join us for this freewheeling episode, and get ready for July 21.

• Find where to watch The Day After Trinity on JustWatch
• Buy American Prometheus on Bookshop.org
• Buy The Nolan Variations on Bookshop.org
• Episode-by-episode media list (Google Doc)
• Kevin McCarthy interview clip with Nolan (TikTok)
• Barbenheimer fever: 20,000 double features booked, says AMC (Variety)
• Cillian Murphy encourages Barbenheimer double feature (Games Radar, via La Vanguardia)
• And again, along with Nolan (IGN)
• No CGI shots in Oppenheimer, says Nolan (Collider)
• Greta Gerwig’s Official Barbie Watchlist (Letterboxd)
• Christopher Nolan goes deep on ‘Oppenheimer’, his most ‘extreme’ film to date (Los Angeles Times; archive link)
• Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making (The New York Times; archive link)
• Instagram: @friendsatduskpod
• Twitter: @friendsatdusk
• Marshall’s Letterboxd: @MDoig
• Jake’s Letterboxd: @808jake_
• Read Jake’s review of the Paramore show in Fort Worth here
• Jake’s Substack: Jacob’s Letter