Tag: Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan finally won a Best Director Oscar, and Steven Spielberg was the one to give it to him

Legendary filmmaker Christopher Nolan has finally won his Oscar.

One of the best directors of all time has finally won his Oscar, and he got it in the absolute best way possible.

Christopher Nolan, the auteur behind such classic films as The Dark Knight, Memento, Inception and Dunkirk, won the Academy Award for Best Director on Sunday night for his latest masterpiece, Oppenheimer.

Legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg presented Nolan the award, which shows highlights a fantastic generational passing of the torch from one all-time director to another.

Nolan has only been nominated for Best Director once before for Dunkirk, so this makes his first victory on his second attempt in the category.

His win is notable not only because of his stature in the industry, but because of his status as one of the few household name filmmakers left working.

Nolan gave a very commendable speech after accepting his long-awaited Oscar, one where he praised his producing partner and wife Emma Thomas and thanked his Oppenheimer cast and crew.

So many have been eagerly awaiting Nolan’s Oscar win after he got infamously snubbed for The Dark Knight back in 2009, but it’s better late than never. Nolan really has finally won his Academy Award.

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Ranking the films of Christopher Nolan, including The Dark Knight, Interstellar and Oppenheimer

Let’s rank the films of Christopher Nolan on the heels of Oppenheimer’s release.

Christopher Nolan remains one of the 21st century’s preeminent auteurs, responsible for some of the most beloved films of our time.

From the blockbuster smash-hit The Dark Knight to the emotional powerhouse of Interstellar, Nolan remains one of the few filmmakers who can get a massive canvas at will and create something lasting with it.

As film shifts, filmmakers like Nolan will become even more important as they use their influence to keep a vital style of moviemaking alive.

With Oppenheimer recently being released, let’s rank the director’s 12 films and see where they land.

Christopher Nolan’s awards history at the Oscars

Has Christopher Nolan ever won an Academy Award?

Christopher Nolan is one of the most accomplished filmmakers of his generation, but has he ever won an Oscar?

The Oppenheimer director has been nominated eight times for the Academy Awards, going all the way back to the 2002 ceremony where he was recognized with a Best Original Screenplay nomination for Memento.

However, he’s never won outright despite also being nominated for Inception (Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay) and Dunkirk (Best Picture, Best Director).

This year, Nolan got three nominations for Best Picture as one of Oppenheimer‘s producers, its director and its screenwriter in the adapted category.

It’s very possible Nolan could sweep all three of his nominations this year and win his first three Oscars in one night. Until then, he’s still searching for his first win at the Academy Awards.

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Revisiting 5 of the most mind-bending Tenet scenes ahead of its IMAX re-release

Ahead of Tenet’s re-release in IMAX theaters, let’s look back at some of the movie’s most mind-bending scenes.

Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending sci-fi epic Tenet will return to IMAX theaters on Friday in 70MM for a limited engagement, making it one of the hot tickets of the winter for cineplexes.

Tenet came out during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning not everyone got a chance to see Nolan’s thrilling action film while it played in theaters.

However, this upcoming week-long engagement should give movie fans a rare opportunity to check out the movie on the biggest screens possible.

In honor of Tenet‘s re-release, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite scenes from Nolan’s film, including a reverse car chase that will leave you breathless and a climactic battle sequence between two strands of time.

Spoilers to follow; some NSFW language and action violence in the clips. 

Christopher Nolan’s Tenet will return to theaters next month for a limited engagement

If you missed an opportunity to see Tenet in theaters back in 2020, here’s your chance to fix that.

If you didn’t get a chance to see Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending action epic Tenet during the height of the 2020 pandemic, Warner Bros. is re-releasing the film next month on 70mm and IMAX film.

The explosive blockbuster will play for a limited engagement starting Feb. 23 in IMAX theaters on 70mm and venues capable of showing 70mm prints.

Nolan’s film initially received a release in September 2020, but some audiences weren’t able to view the film during its first run with pandemic-related health concerns and COVID-19 restrictions closing various theaters across the country.

With Nolan’s latest film Oppenheimer up for multiple nominations at the upcoming Oscar ceremony, the Tenet re-release should serve as a fitting precursor to that major moment in the filmmaker’s career.

While Tenet is available to watch at home on Hulu and various rental services, seeing it on the biggest screen possible will always be the best format to take in the cerebral spectacle that Nolan crafted.

Ranking the films of Christopher Nolan, including The Dark Knight and Interstellar

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The Peloton instructor who ripped Christopher Nolan while he took her class responds on Instagram

She hated Tenet, but she now says she loved Oppenheimer.

It was one of the funnier, more bizarre stories you heard this week: Christopher Nolan, the incredible director of mind-bending films from Oppenheimer to Interstellar, was minding his own business, taking a Peloton class … when his instructor ripped on Tenet, his 2020 movie, without knowing he was watching.

People ended up finding the video in question and the instructor, Jenn Sherman, who responded with a new video in which she walked (biked?) things back, saying how much she loved Oppenheimer and invited him for a class in studio.

If I was Nolan, I’d totally do it! Thus ends this very funny story.

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A Peloton instructor unwittingly bashed a Christopher Nolan movie while he was in the class and the video is brutal

Update: The internet found the Peloton video. It’s brutal.

Imagine you’ve been working so hard on a project for months that all you want to do once it’s done is burn off any remaining stress by hopping on a stationary bike and getting a nice bit of exercise in.

Now imagine that, in the middle of your ride, an instructor comes on the screen to tell you how awful your work was. You’d have to feel a bit like Tim Robinson in the Brian’s Hat sketch.

That is precisely what famed director Christopher Nolan said happened to him. In the middle of a Peloton class, his instructor went off on a tangent about one of Nolan’s projects — Nolan didn’t say which one — calling it a complete waste of time while very likely unaware that Nolan was in the class.

The 53-year-old director recalled the story while accepting an award for best director for Oppenheimer from the New York Film Critics Circle. According to Variety’s Zack Sharf, Nolan was praising professional film critics when he dropped in this nugget:

Nolan summed up his appreciation for film criticism by telling a story about how he was once using his Peloton for a workout class only to have the instructor pan one of his movies. The Oscar nominee did not disclose which film it was, but clearly the Peloton instructor had no idea Nolan was in his virtual class that day.

“I was on my Peloton. I’m dying. And the instructor started talking about one of my films and said, ‘Did anyone see this? That’s a couple hours of my life I’ll never get back again!’” Nolan said. “When [film critic] Rex Reed takes a [expletive] on your film he doesn’t ask you to work out!”

Fair enough!

Of course, the internet couldn’t just let the fun little anecdote stand on its own. Immediately people began to wonder which film the instructor could’ve been talking about and a clear consensus emerged: Tenet.

UPDATE: We have video confirmation that the film in question was Tenet, because some intrepid sleuths found the class Nolan was in and the comments are even worse than he made them sound.

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The 2020 film staring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson is still dividing audiences due to some plot holes that made the story a bit difficult to follow — though it clearly still has some passionate supporters.

Oppenheimer still set for battle with Barbie despite delay rumors

Don’t worry, folks. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is still set for release on July 21.

A now-deleted viral tweet had film fans in their feelings on Friday as word started to spread that the Christopher Nolan epic Oppenheimer had been delayed.

However, the film is still right on track for its summer release at the moment.

Nolan’s latest drama focused on atomic bomb pioneer J. Robert Oppenheimer has been scheduled to go up against Greta Gerwig’s Barbie on July 21, but social media buzz started swirling that Oppenheimer had been moved to later in the year.

The news linked back to a Variety interview with Cannes programmer Thierry Fremaux where he said that the Nolan film wasn’t playing the French film festival because it was being “released at the end of the year as part of [Universal Pictures’] awards strategy.”

Well, Fremaux most likely misspoke, as Universal has not officially delayed Oppenheimer. The film is still scheduled to be released on July 21.

AP film writer Lindsey Bahr confirmed that Nolan’s latest is still planning for its summer release.

The Wrap also heard from a source close to the film that Oppenheimer will stick with its July 21 release date.

There would be plenty of obstacles surrounding an Oppenheimer delay, as Nolan’s desire to get the film on as many IMAX screens as possible has likely required lots of preparation with the July 21 date in mind.

Also, it’s not as common for a studio to delay a major summer film this close to its release. It’s not impossible, but it’s unlikely.

If Oppenheimer were actually to move, it’s more than likely Universal would shift to a Thanksgiving window, as it would give the studio the best chance at plentiful IMAX screenings. However, awards releases happen year-round, and delaying Oppenheimer wouldn’t necessarily boost the film’s Oscar chances.

As of now, movie fans should still plan for Oppenheimer‘s release this summer. Nolan’s films have always centered on time, and it’s highly unlikely he’d have this one show up late on the 2023 film calendar. Unless Universal announces an actual delay, the tweets out there are incorrect.