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Christopher Nolan
, undisputed creator of
Hollywood
hits whose ambitious productions seduce mass audiences and cult followers alike, has finally confirmed his artistic excellence this Sunday by triumphing at the
Oscars
with
Oppenheimer
.
The British-American filmmaker, an obsessively punctual and tea-loving perfectionist known for combining inventive, intellectual tinkering with an emphasis on realism, has received the
Oscar
for
best director
.
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"To the academy, just say that cinema is just over 100 years old. I mean, imagine being there for 100 years in painting or theater. We don't know where this incredible journey is going. But knowing that they think I'm a important part means a lot to me," said the filmmaker when receiving the
Oscar
.
It is the high point of a career that has taken
Christopher Nolan
from darling of artistic productions (
Memento
), to savior of superheroes (
Batman
's
Dark Knight
trilogy ), to rare purveyor of original science fiction (
Inception
or
Interstellar
) in a market plagued by sequels.
Christopher Nolan
, 53, has come close to
Oscar
glory in the past, most notably with his 2017 epic
Dunkirk
.
But the director, sometimes branded by critics as a master technician and genre filmmaker more than a true visionary auteur, had never won an
Oscar
before
Oppenheimer
, which swept seven statuettes this Sunday.
Born in 1970 and the son of a British advertising man and an American airline stewardess,
Nolan
had a particular transatlantic childhood.
After seeing
Star Wars
and
2001: A Space Odyssey
at the movies when he was seven,
Nolan
quickly began making movies on his father's old Super 8 camera.
After studying at boarding school, he graduated in English literature from
University College
London, which he chose partly for its audiovisual facilities.
There he set up a film production company with his future producer and wife,
Emma Thomas
, with whom he moved to
Los Angeles
after finishing his studies.
Nolan
rose to fame at the age of 30 with
Memento
, an avant-garde, intelligent and sinuous crime film, with a non-linear narrative that has become his trademark.
It was a hit at festivals and his script earned him his first
Oscar
nomination .
His big-budget directorial debut was
Insomnia
(2002), starring
Al Pacino
as a Los Angeles police officer sent to Alaska to investigate a murder.
Veteran director
Steven Soderbergh
had recommended
Nolan
to Warner Bros., and later revealed details of a conversation he had with
Pacino
on the
film's
set .
"I can tell you right now, at some point in the near future, I'm going to be very proud to say that I was 'in a Christopher Nolan movie,'"
Pacino
told
Soderbergh
.
The film's success allowed
Nolan
to propose his gritty, realistic vision for the new
Batman
films the studio was planning.
Batman Begins
gave rise to a trilogy of films directed by
Christopher Nolan
, with
Christian Bale
in the role of the masked hero.
The second part,
Batman: The Dark Knight
, is often considered the best superhero movie ever made.
It was the first to raise $1 billion and the first to generate a posthumous
Oscar
for best actor, which went to
Heath Ledger
for his portrayal of The
Joker
.
The third,
The Dark Knight
, won less praise, but became the biggest commercial success of his career, which has already accumulated more than 6 billion at the box office.
In between, Nolan released
The Big Trick
, a period thriller about the duel between two magicians - played by
Christian Bale
and
Hugh Jackman
-, and
Inception
.
The latter, a wildly ambitious thriller in which
Leonardo DiCaprio
and
Marion Cotillard
jump between chained dream worlds, cemented
Nolan
's reputation as a unique Hollywood filmmaker who could command big budgets and total creative control for original films, and still generate profit.
It won four
Oscars
, including one for its stunning visual effects, and returned the nomination to Nolan, his first individual since
Memento
.
His next original science fiction production,
Interstellar
, won another
Oscar
for visual effects and began his collaboration with theoretical physicist
Kip Thorne
.
The director then looked to the past with
Dunkirk
, a taut account of the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Allied troops from a beach in northern France during World War II.
The film brought him his first nomination for
best director
, and its setting in the 1940s foreshadowed
Oppenheimer
.
His next film,
Tenet
, another ambitious science fiction production, brought him an interest in nuclear destruction.
But it was reading
American Prometheus
, the Pulitzer-winning 2005 biography of the father of the atomic bomb,
J. Robert Oppenheimer
, that set him on the path that would ultimately bring him Oscar glory.