The best director award at the Oscars this year was perhaps one of the least surprising in decades and was taken for granted from the beginning — and the course — of the awards season: Christopher Nolan took the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, the Bafta, the Critics Choice, the Directors Guild and many others in a year dominated by his film “Oppenheimer”.
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Nolan is a singular case: he built a name in commercial cinema with films considered auteur and critically acclaimed, reinvented the superhero genre (with Batman’s Dark Knight trilogy) with immensely popular commercial films leaving his own stamp and has created a cinematic style in high-budget productions with complex temporal structures that cross the lines of science fiction (such as Interstellar, Inception and Tenet) and history (such as Dunkirk and Oppenheimer) from unique angles.
The British-American director, who writes all his films, has also teamed up perfectly with his wife Emma Thomas to produce the films.
