Christopher Nolan is a British-American and Academy Award-winning director and screenwriter known for his complex storytelling in movies such as Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014), and Tenet (2020). He helmed the historical biopic Oppenheimer (2023), receiving an Academy Award nomination for directing.
Nolan first garnered attention for his early movies, Following (1998) and Memento (2000). After directing Insomnia(2002), Nolan became famous for Batman Begins (2005) and the subsequent Dark Knight trilogy based on the Batman comic-book franchise. The 2008 sequel, The Dark Knight, broke box-office records and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2020.
