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In a more recent chain of events, Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. won an Oscar for their performances in Christopher Nolan’s 2023 magnum opus,Oppenheimer.WithOppenheimerbeing the first Oscar-winning performance for both actors, naturally, their fees would also skyrocket pretty soon.
Well, the alleged salaries of cast members of the 2023 film were released on X (formerly Twitter), and the amounts are shocking! From earning a few million to earning a hundred million, here’s what the cast salary ofOppenheimerallegedly looks like!
What The Cast Salary ofOppenheimerAllegedly Looks Like!
With how overwhelming the film became and the Barbenheimer trend adding fuel to the fire, the film was going to reach millions at the box office. Being a Christopher Nolan film with Robert Downey Jr. and Cillian Murphy in it, the fans were already excited about its release.
On top of that, narrating the story of how the first atomic bomb was created and used and the consequences of that creation drew millions of people to the theaters. Earning a total gross box office of $958 million, the film is easily Nolan at its best, and he was awarded sufficiently enough for it. On the other hand, the alleged salaries for the cast members ofOppenheimerwere released on X, and it is quite low!
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‘OPPENHEIMER’ cast salaries:
– Cillian Murphy: $10M– Robert Downey Jr: $4M– Emily Blunt: $4M– Matt Damon: $4M
(via@Variety)pic.twitter.com/xKWRJakZcA
— Christopher Nolan Art & Updates (@NolanAnalyst)July 01, 2025
Seeing the huge difference between the director’s and the actor’s paycheck, the people took to the comment section and talked about how Nolan earned $100 million for the film but Murphy only 1/10th of Nolan’s paycheck!
Meanwhile Christopher Nola earned 100 million dollars…. There I wrote it for you!
— Kᶤᶰᵍˢ⍆ Ðᵒʷᶰᵉʸ/Δᶜᵏˡᵉˢ (@Downey_Ackles)June 19, 2025
Do they get a bonus for getting an Oscar? Or because it made 950 million?
— SocratesSnow ❄️🐺🪷🇺🇸 (@SocratesSnow)August 16, 2025
Really shows u how rich athletes are in comparison. Nba players making $40mill a year
— Phil G. SI. (@PhilGallo8)June 15, 2025
Probs negotiated profit share. I don’t think anyone anticipated the box office success though.
— TataMount (@nnekacriss)July 30, 2025
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Although this was alsoChristopher Nolan’sfirst-ever Oscar Win for Best Director, he simply did not feel like having it. In 2018, the director made quite a few controversial remarks about the Academy Awards that seemed to correlate the awards to Harvey Weinstein!
Christopher Nolan Doesn’t Care For Academy Awards!
Back in 2017, Christopher Nolan had worked with Cillian Murphy in his famous World War II film,Dunkirk.The film was nominated for Best Director, but he was snubbed. The veteran director said in Tom Shone’s book ‘The Nolan Variations‘ that it was all a part of Harvey Weinstein’s scheme (former producer and convicted s*x offender).
“People always talk about the Academy as if it’s one mind, and it’s not at all. It’s a bunch of individuals. I think one thing that Harvey Weinstein did is, he constructed a business model where the awards were part of the marketing campaign.”
He further said,
“It used to be rewarding a film and now it’s helping a film. The awards are part of a patronage system, you might say, and with Dunkirk, we were lucky enough not to need it.”
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And 6 years later, Christopher Nolan earned an Oscar for Best Achievement in Directing forOppenheimer.Although his statements might or might not be true, all we know is that the Oscars were pretty competitive this year. Nolan’sOppenheimeris available to stream on Peacock Premium in the U.S.
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
