On July 16, 1945, the world changed forever. With the first successful detonation of a nuclear bomb, Julius Robert Oppenheimer ushered in the atomic age, an era of nuclear arms proliferation and the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction. The way wars were fought changed and the very culture of the world shifted. This of course included a shift in cinema.

The following are nuclear war films that have been nominated for Oscars. I will be considering a film a nuclear war film if it directly deals with the idea of nuclear warfare in a significant way. This includes films dealing with atomic testing, nuclear terrorism, and even films revolving around nuclear monsters.