(This year the PGA nominees matched exactly the Oscar best-picture list.) Since 2009, when both groups expanded the number of best-film nominees from five, the PGA winner has repeated at the Oscars all but three times. Only one film has ever taken top prizes from the producers, directors and actors guilds, as “Oppenheimer” has done, and still lost the best-picture Oscar, “Apollo 13” (1995). Nolan’s film is far better situated than that one was with two acting wins possible for stars Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. So the question now isn’t whether “Oppenheimer” will triumph at the Oscars, it’s how many statuettes it will earn before taking the top prize.

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Persons: There’s, “ Oppenheimer, ”, Christopher Nolan’s, “ We’ve, ” Nolan, Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, “ Oppenheimer ”, Oscar, “, Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr Organizations: Producers Guild of America, PGA Locations: Dunkirk