Historical films are Academy Awards favourites. What do they tell us about the past?

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Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer in a scene from Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer.

Films like Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon are front runners at this year’s Academy Awards. Cinema researcher Kim Nelson says the way they’re framed plays a big role in how we understand the past.Film researcher Kim Nelson says it's important to understand how historical films, like Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, presents particular evidence about the past. are front-runners at this year's Academy Awards.

And, of course, any time you have the medium for telling stories, it is going to be telling history because we can't tell stories about the future so much and so we're telling stories about the past. And afterwards, it's like these films come in and sweep the slate almost clean, and what people remember and what they think was the past was what they saw in the film.

So I think it's a good thing. Like, I watch that film and I want to see, you know, Sterlin Harjo, who madeIndigenous actor Lily Gladstone is favoured to win for her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon.

 

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