The Oscar nominations are out and, as widely expected, Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, the historic crime-drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert de Niro, is up for Best Picture. And while it may not have the blockbuster appeal or tech trickery of hot contender Oppenheimer, it is as masterful a piece of storytelling as you are ever likely to see.
Based on David Grann’s 2017 book of the same name, the film explores the infamous FBI hunt for the perpetrators of a series of murders of oil-rich Osage Native Americans in 1920s Oklahoma. Scorsese has created a deeply layered narrative that not only highlights a monstrous miscarriage of justice but that, at its core, seeks to underline centuries of Osage culture.
