This article applies Fairclough's CDA method of nominalization to analyze some quotations from Oppenheimer 2023, a film about the life and work of the physicist who led the Manhattan Project. Nominalization is a linguistic strategy that can be used by politicians and other public figures for various purposes, such as creating a more abstract, formal, or impersonal tone, or concealing or obscuring the agent, the responsibility, or the causality of an action or event. Oppenheimer was not a politician, but he was involved in political affairs and used ideological language to convey his views and values.