‘Oppenheimer’ wins big at the Oscars [Video]

SAN ANTONIO — For my money, the moment when Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” shifts gears from dutiful portrait of American history to white-knuckle thriller about world-ending weapons and the political squabbling of those overseeing them comes precisely 67 minutes in. It’s one of the movie’s many time jumps, and we’re whizzed back several years from a closed-doors meeting of the Atomic Energy Commission discussing the global arms race to a team of ambitious scientists examining a nuclear reactor that will prove key to that race starting in the first place. 

It may be a simple cut, but because there’s nothing simple about how the 53-year-old Nolan makes movies, it’s also a cut that has made the hairs on my arms stand tall …