‘Oppenheimer’ Movie: Cold War History Toes Liberal Hollywood Line

Rarely has a movie been the front-runner to win an award the way Oppenheimer is for Best Picture at Sunday’s Oscars. Director Christopher Nolan’s movie is a towering achievement.

Sadly, however, as National Review’s Neal Freeman noted last July, a central premise of the film — that its protagonist’s prodigious career was dramatically and unfairly curtailed after the 1954 revocation of his security clearance — doesn’t hold up to even the paltry standards of Hollywood history. Freeman writes, “Robert Oppenheimer was, beyond the slightest of all possible doubts, a security risk. The security-review panel was far from the gross miscarriage of justice that Nolan depicts.”

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Rarely has a movie been the front-runner to win an award the way Oppenheimer is for Best Picture at Sunday’s Oscars. Director Christopher Nolan’s movie is a towering achievement.

Sadly, however, as National Review’s Neal Freeman noted last July, a central premise of the film — that its protagonist’s prodigious career was dramatically and unfairly curtailed after the 1954 revocation of his security clearance — doesn’t hold up to even the paltry standards of Hollywood history. Freeman writes, “Robert Oppenheimer was, beyond the slightest of all possible doubts, a security risk. The security-review panel was far from the gross miscarriage of justice that Nolan depicts.”