Christopher Nolan Wiki: Everything To Know About The 'Inception' Director

There would be nothing wrong to say that Nolan was born for the filmmaking industry. His passion and unconventional ideas started sprouting at a very young age. Moreover, it was sort of in his blood too. The environment around him while growing up was not any less encouraging. Nolan was born on July 30, 1970, in London. He is the son of an English man, Brendan James Nolan an advertising executive, and his mother, Christina, who worked as a flight attendant and an English teacher, was American. He lived in London and Illinois during his childhood. Hence, he holds both British and US citizenship. When most kids are at an early stage of learning, at the age of seven, Nolan had already started making short films. He used to shoot scenes using his action toys on his father's Super 8 camera. When Stars Wars was released in 1977, Nolan was just eight years old. He was so inspired by it that he created his stop-motion animation called Space Wars as a tribute.

An 11-year-old aspiring to become a filmmaker is not a something one would believe. But, Nolan had this determination in his mind and heart. There was nothing that could halt his journey towards his goal each day. Certainly, age was never even a contributing factor. He attended Haileybury and Imperial Service College in Hertfordshire. After which, he chose University College London to study English Literature, particularly because of the filmmaking facilities available there. Nolan was the president of the Film society as well. In his college years, Nolan made short films like Tarantella (1989) and Larceny (1995) with his girlfriend, Emma Thomas. The latter is counted as one of the UCL's best short films and also appeared at the Cambridge Film Festival (1996). The Golden Globe winner is now happily married to Emma Thomas, and she works with him as a co-producer in many movies. They have four children, and one of them even appeared in his movie Inception. The family currently lives in Los Angeles. Apart from this, Jonathan, brother of Christopher is also his writing partner in many movies.

Nolan's debut Following (1998) brought him enough credibility and recognition that he was able to finance his next big movie, Memento (2000). He received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations. The movie is now preserved in the US National Film Registry. The succeeding years were full of great movies by this amazing director. After the psychological thriller, Insomnia (2002), his next big hit was The Dark Knight Trilogy. During this successful project from 2005 to 2013, Nolan also worked with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale in The Prestige (2006), and with Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio in the science fiction blockbuster Inception in 2010. Interstellar (2014), Man of Steel (2013), Quay (2015), and the most recent Dunkirk (2017) are other major hits directed by Christopher Nolan. Vanity Fair declared him fourth in the list of Hollywood's top earners in the list of 2017. Nolan's wife, Emma Thomas, does not have a set public net worth, as records for her net worth vary from $200,000 to $200 million. In 2011, the couple had a combined net worth of about $93 million, although we're sure that has gone up since then due to their success.

Nolan has not only received great support and love from audiences but has also won many significant awards over the period of 19 years that he has devoted to filmmaking. Some of the awards from this enormous list are the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, Sonny Bono Visionary Award, Britannia Award, ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award and many more. • Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the year (2011). • Art Directors Guild's Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award (2015). • Visionary Award (2011) by Visual Effects Society. • Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay (2010) in Inception. • Critic's Choice Movie Awards for Best Screenplay (2001) for Memento, Best Action Movie (2008) for The Dark Knight, Best Action Movie (2010) for Inception. • BAFTA (Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence) in Directing (2010). • MTV Movie & TV Award for Best New Filmmaker (2002) for Memento. These are just a few awards that Nolan has won and much more that he has been nominated for as well. Time Magazine featured Nolan as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in the year 2015. He has given the film industry some of the best movies until now.

In his career, the tremendous director has given us many blockbuster movies and iconic heroes that we admire to a great extent. These innovative stories and the technique put into movies like Interstellar and Dunkirk bring out something magical and ahead of the times. It is indeed safe to say that these movies and the legends have made our world a better place. All of this prominently credited to a man of extraordinary imagination and skill set, Christopher Nolan.