Oppenheimer and Barbie have been nominated for 13 and 8 Oscars, respectively. We feature our interview with Christopher Nolan, who wrote and directed Oppenheimer, about the making of the atomic bomb. Also, we hear from prolific music producer Mark Ronson about the soundtrack and score of Barbie. He co-wrote one of the songs that's been nominated for an Oscar and a Grammy, "I'm Just Ken." David Bianculli reviews the latest installment of Ryan Murphy's FX anthology series Feud, this time about Truman Capote. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
On the Ted radio hour, linguist Ann.
Curzan says she gets a lot of.
Complaints about people using the pronoun they to refer to one person.
I sometimes get into arguments with people.
Where they will say to me, but it can't be singular.
And I will say, but it is.
The history behind words causing a lot of debate.
That's on the Ted radio hour from NPR.
This is fresh air.
I'm Tanya Moseley.
Today we begin our countdown to the Oscars with our very own Oppenheimer Barbie double feature.
Let's start with Oppenheimer, which is nominated for 13 Academy Awards, including best picture, director, actor, supporting actor and actress, adapted screenplay, original score and more.
The film is also nominated for Grammy, which takes place this Sunday for best score or soundtrack.
Oppenheimer is about J.
Robert Oppenheimer, the man known as the father of the atom bomb.
He was a theoretical physicist and directed Los Alamos, the secret project in New Mexico where researchers created, designed and tested the first atomic bomb, which was intended to end World War two.
By the time it was tested, Germany had surrendered, but Japan had not.
In 1945, the US dropped atomic bombs on the japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
That ended the war, but it's estimated that as many as 200,000 people were killed.
After the war, Oppenheimer became an advocate of arms control and opposed military plans for massive strategic bombing with nuclear weapons, which he considered genocidal.