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Hollywood filmmaker Christopher Nolan won the Best Director award for his biopic film `Oppenheimer` at the BAFTA Film Awards 2024. Other nominees were `All of Us Strangers,` Andrew Haigh, `Anatomy of a Fall,` Justine Triet, `The Holdovers,` Alexander Payne, `Maestro,` Bradley Cooper, `Oppenheimer,` `The Zone of Interest,` Jonathan Glazer. The film has bagged awards in `Best Cinematography`, `Best Editing` `Best Original Score` and `Best Supporting Actor (Male) categories so far. Oppenheimer was nominated in 13…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIt was an awards show of few surprises this year as heavily-tipped films such as Oppenheimer and Poor Things dominated the top categories at the 2024 Baftas.The 77th British academy film awards took place at Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday Night (18 February), with Hollywood stars including Margot Robbie, Robert Downey Jr, and Ryan Gosling in attendance.Prince William was also…

Image: Dominik Bindl/Getty Images (Getty Images)Throughout his decades-long career, Christopher Nolan has bounced between varoius genres like thrillers, space operas, and superhero crime dramas. He operates best in those spaces, and even Oppenheimer doesn’t feel that far removed from his bread and butter. But as it turns out, he’s a bit of a horror sicko and would like to make one at some point in his career.Talking to the British Film Institute, Nolan mentioned his interest in the genre. While he didn’t name any of his…

Christopher Nolan is looking to make a horror film, provided there is a good enough idea. He was recently speaking at an in-conversation event at London’s British Film Institute (BFI), attended by a rapt, sold-out audience. When an audience member asked if he would consider making a horror film, Nolan referred to his last movie, saying, “Oppenheimer has elements of horror in it definitely, as I think is appropriate to the subject matter. I think horror films are very interesting because they depend on very…

When the #Barbenheimer hashtag emerged last summer, encouraging filmgoers to watch two radically different blockbusters as a double bill, Christopher Nolan’s epic study of atom bomb pioneer J Robert Oppenheimer appeared almost as an afterthought to the frothy, comedic doll-centred Barbie, its seriousness and three-hour length weighing it down. The box office battle – Barbie’s $1.4bn worldwide revenue convincingly defeating Oppenheimer’s $959.9m – appeared conclusive. But as the awards season nears its climax, Oppenheimer…

Christopher Nolan is expressing his gratitude for the Marvel movies. In a new interview with The New York Times, the Oscar-nominated director had nothing but praise for the superhero movies made by the MCU. (Also read: Christopher Nolan says Robert Downey Jr's turn as Iron Man is ‘one of the most consequential casting decisions’ ever) Christopher Nolan recently received an Oscar nomination for directing Oppenheimer.(AFP) ‘Thank God for Marvel movies’In the interview, Christopher Nolan was speaking about the…

Christopher Nolan has a habit of working with the same actors over and over again: the acclaimed director has worked with Anne Hathaway and Matt Damon twice, Christian Bale and Gary Oldman four times apiece. And, he's notably collaborated a whopping six times with Cillian Murphy, the star of not only his blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer but also Dunkirk, Inception and The Dark Knight trilogy. While Chris and Cill's professional "bromance" is undeniably impressive, it's actually the filmmaker's second longest-running…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeChristopher Nolan has explained why his longtime collaborator Sir Michael Caine did not appear in his Oscar-nominated historical epic, Oppenheimer. The film, about the nuclear arms race, swept the Academy Award nominations this year, earning 13 nods in total. Irish actor Cillian Murphy, who played the “father of the atomic bomb“, J Robert Oppenheimer, is up for Best Actor, while Nolan…

Acclaimed filmmakers haven't been the biggest fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Legendary director Martin Scorsese has been outspoken with his controversial critiques (which he's since clarified) that superhero movies are "not cinema." Among other big-time directors who've been critical of superhero fare are  David Fincher, Roland Emmerich and David Cronenberg. One auteur pointedly doesn't consider himself part of that pool: Christopher Nolan. Of course, he helmed some of the best Batman movies of all time with his…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeChristopher Nolan has explained why he was “little afraid” of Robert Downey Jr when they first met in the early 2000s during casting for Batman Begins. Downey Jr, 58, revealed earlier this month he had an interview with Nolan regarding his potential casting as the villain “Scarecrow” in the Dark Knight franchise. Instead, Nolan decided to cast Cillian Murphy, in a move that kicked off…