Oppenheimer

Sound mixing is Christopher Nolan's one filmmaking weakness, but with sound man Willie Burton confirmed for Oppenheimer, Nolan can fix his reputation.

With it, Willie Burton faces the monumental Manhattan Project of his own career: make sure audiences can hear the destroyer of worlds and rehab Christopher Nolan’s reputation as the destroyer of words. Burton, a two-time Oscar winner and seven-time nominee whose credits include War Games, Se7en, and Dreamgirls, is no doubt equal to the task. Christopher Nolan is one of the most critically lauded, commercially successful filmmakers of the day. In one technical category, however, the movies of Christopher Nolan consistently fall flat. Even fellow directors, Nolan says, have called him to say his "dialogue is inaudible." Christopher Nolan movies are notorious for "bad" sound mixing, but Oppenheimer should fix the acclaimed director’s one filmmaking weakness.