15 Things You Somehow Missed In Oppenheimer
2. The Ernest Lawrence Mistake
Late in the movie there's a strange fudging of the facts which many familiar with Oppenheimer's story even pointed out on social media.
During the affecting sequence where an older Oppenheimer is presented with the Enrico Fermi Award in 1963, nuclear physicist Ernest Lawrence (Josh Hartnett) is briefly seen among the audience.
Except, Lawrence died five years earlier in 1958, and while one might jump to assume that Nolan somehow made a huge mistake, it's far more likely that he took deliberate artistic license here.
Given that the scene symbolically represents the scientific community circling back to Oppenheimer later in life, it's fitting that one of the film's more prominent faces is in the crowd, even if it isn't true to the facts of that day.