At the "Oppenheimer" Oscars, Hollywood Went in Search of Lost Time

This wasn't the first year that the Academy Awards fell on the second Sunday in March, forcing the good citizens of Hollywood to manage their hair appointments and limousine pickups around the annual scourge that is daylight-saving time. Even so, the ninety-sixth annual Oscars ceremony wrought more than its expected share of havoc on schedules. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, hoping to broaden its reach among those with strict curfews and short attention spans, opted to kick off the show at the previously unheard-of time of 4 P.M. Or, as this year's host, Jimmy Kimmel, quipped in his opening monologue, "The show, as you know, is starting an hour early this year, but don't worry. It will still end very, very late." Such temporal dislocation was surely a good omen, not that any were needed, for Christopher Nolan and "Oppenheimer."