From Superman to Saving Private Ryan, 10 films that influenced Christopher Nolan’s signature style

Oppenheimer won big at the BAFTAs last night, but it was far from a surprise: Christopher Nolan’s latest film, a biopic about the man dubbed “the father of the atomic bomb”, has already won over 260 awards, and is currently in the running for 13 Oscars, including for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor.

Described as Nolan’s most ambitious film yet – astonishing given that his directorial credits include Inception, Interstellar and Tenet – Oppenheimer sees Cillian Murphy transform into J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who led the team that developed the world’s first nuclear weapons.

The film, which is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus, was described by the Standard as a “dark, immersive epic” and Nolan’s “most profoundly pessimistic work yet”.

So what really characterises a Nolan movie? Some feature a soft, somewhat washed out colour palette. They’re often accompanied by a sonic slap in the face from an intense soundtrack by Ludwig Göransson and Hans Zimmer. Plus Nolan is