Open this photo in gallery: Cillian Murphy, left, and writer, director and producer Christopher Nolan on the set of Oppenheimer.Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures/Universal Pictures Two years ago, the Academy Awards delivered “The Slap.” Last year, it was the surprising resilience of quasi-Canadiana, thanks to Women Talking’s Sarah Polley and Nalvany’s Daniel Roher. What unexpected moments will audiences wake up talking about after this Sunday’s Oscars? Barbenheimer only knows. Yet this year’s ceremony also offers up a number of sure-things, or at least – putting on my best Larry David voice – pretty-pretty-prettyyyyyyyy sure things, thanks to the awards-circuit dominance of...