Christopher Nolan is an English-American film director known for personal, distinctive films within mainstream Hollywood. He is the highest grossing director worldwide. Nolan was influenced by films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Wars and began filmmaking at age 7. His feature debut was the neo-noir Following (1998), and later films like Memento (2000), Insomnia (2002), and the Dark Knight trilogy were critical and box office successes. Nolan is known for his meticulous shooting style where he uses single-camera and oversees all filming himself to maintain full creative control. His most recent films include Tenet (2020) and Dunkirk (2017).

1. DIRECTOR RESEARCH
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

2. Who is he?
He is an English-American film
director, screen writer and producer
who is known for making personal,
distinctive films within the Hollywood
mainstream. He is the highest
grossing director by worldwide box
office.

3. Early Life
 Nolan was born in Westminster, London, and grew up in High gate. He
was raised a Catholic. His father, Brendan James Nolan, was a British
advertising executive who worked as a creative director. His mother,
Christina, was an American flight attendant who would later work as an
English teacher.
 Nolan's childhood was split between London and Evanston, Illinois, and
he has both British and US citizenship.
 Nolan was particularly influenced by the work of Ridley Scott, and the
science fiction films 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Star
Wars (1977).He began making films at age seven, borrowing his
father's Super 8 camera and shooting short films with his action figures.
These films included a stop motion animation.
 His uncle, who worked at NASA building guidance systems for
the Apollo rockets, sent him some launch footage: "I re-filmed them off
the screen and cut them in, thinking no-one would notice", Nolan later
remarked. From the age of eleven, he aspired to be a professional
filmmaker. Between 1981 and 1983, Nolan enrolled at Barrow Hills, a
Catholic prep school in Weighbridge, Surrey, run by Josephine
priests. In his teenage years, Nolan started making films with Adrian
and Rook Belie. Nolan and Rook co–directed
the surreal 8 mm Tarantella (1989), which was shown on Image Union,
an independent film and video showcase on the Public Broadcasting
Service.

4. Early Works
 His feature directorial debut was the neo-noir crime
thriller Following (1998).Two years later, he directed psychological
thriller Memento (2000) which starred Guy Pearce as a man suffering
from intergraded amnesia (short-term memory loss) searching for his wife's
killers.
 For the film Nolan received his first nomination for the Directors Guild of
America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film, and for writing its
screenplay he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original
Screenplay. He next directed the mystery thriller remake Insomnia (2002). It
was his first film for Warner Bros., and was a critical and commercial
success.
 In 2005, Nolan directed Warner Bros' superhero film Batman Begins. The
following year, he directed psychological thriller The Prestige (2006). His next
film was the sequel to Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, . The film grossed a
worldwide total of over $1 billion, and was the highest grossing of 2008. It
received eight nominations at the 81st Academy Awards, and Nolan received
his second nomination at the Directors Guild of America Awards. In 2010, he
directed the action film Inception. It was nominated for Best Film at
the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, and Golden Globe
Awards, and Nolan received his third nomination at the Directors Guild of
America Awards.

5. Working Style
 His priority is showcase the story in all
possible manner but the finest ones makes
the final cut.
 The starting scenes of his movies will always
describes all the main characters and
storyline but you will understand that gist only
after watching the whole movie.
 Background Scores are very important in his
films. The pace of the tunes are equally
describing the pace of the situation as well as
story.
 the storyline of his films are in complete cycle
except for Dark Knight Trilogy, where all three
movies completes the cycle

6. Methods and techniques of
shooting
 Nolan shoots the entirety of his films with one unit, rather than
using a second unit for action sequences. That way, he keeps
his personality and point of view in every aspect of the film. "If
I don't need to be directing the shots that go in the movie,
why do I need to be there at all? The screen is the same size
for every shot ... Many action films embrace a second unit
taking on all of the action.
 He uses multi-camera for stunts and single-camera for all the
dramatic action.
 He then watches dailies every night, saying, "Shooting single-
camera means I've already seen every frame as it's gone
through the gate because my attention isn't divided to multi-
cameras." Nolan deliberately works under a tight schedule
during the early stages of the editing process, forcing himself
and his editor to work more spontaneously. "I always think of
editing as instinctive or impressionist. Not to think too much,
in a way, and feel it more." He also avoids using temp
music while cutting his films.

7. Recent work
 His recent work is TENET (2020) it was
both directed and written by him. The
box office of this movie is 363.7 million
USD.
 His 2017thDunkirk same as tenet it
was written directed by him. The box
office of this movie is 527 million USD.

8. Conclusion
 Overall, his work is most famous
mostly he creates psychological
thrillers and gains good box office
budget all over the world. He is also
the most known director and writer
from British.
 His methods and techniques make his
film different and also he use different
camera and angles for the stunt
shoots.