Christopher Nolan: An epic storyteller who ponders the great questions
by Charlotte McLaughlin
Feb 18, 2024
4 minutes
Christopher Nolan is a director who has pondered important questions throughout his body of work, but had never won a Bafta for directing until Sunday’s ceremony.
The London-born filmmaker was previously nominated for a total of five Baftas for his dream-bending thriller Inception and Second World War epic Dunkirk.
He went into the Sunday ceremony as the favourite to win for Oppenheimer – for which he has been given three nods across the adapted screenplay, director and best film categories.
Accepting his directing award, Nolan paid tribute to the nuclear disarmament programme and the efforts to bring “peace” – and thanked the film’s
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