British-American filmmaker

Christopher Nolan Christopher Edward Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British-American filmmaker. Known for his lucrative Hollywood blockbusters with complex storytelling, Nolan is considered a leading filmmaker of the 21st century. His films have grossed $5&nb ...

has received many awards and honours throughout his career. He has been nominated for five

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s, five British Academy Film Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. He was appointed

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(CBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for his services to film. At the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, Nolan and his brother Jonathan won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for ''Memento'', and in 2003 Nolan received the Sonny Bono Visionary Award from the

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. Festival executive director Mitch Levine said, "Nolan had in his brief time as a feature film director, redefined and advanced the very language of cinema". He was named an

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of UCL in 2006, and conferred an

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in literature (DLit) in 2017. In 2009, the director received the Board of the Governors Award from the

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. In 2011 Nolan received the Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in Directing from the

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and the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award from American Cinema Editors. That year he also received the Modern Master Award, the highest honour presented by the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. In addition, Nolan was the recipient of the inaugural VES Visionary Award from the

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. In 2012 he became the youngest director to be honoured with a hand-and-footprint ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Nolan received the first-ever Founder's Award from

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in 2014. The

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selected Nolan as the recipient of its Cinematic Imagery Award in 2015, an honour bestowed upon those whose

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has "richly enhanced the visual aspects of the movie-going experience". He was selected as the 2015 Class Day speaker at

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and was awarded the

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at the 20th Empire Awards. In the following years he received the FIAF Award from the archival community, and the inaugural Vanguard Award from The Digital Entertainment Group. The director has been honoured with career retrospectives at the

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and

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nolan, Christopher Lists of awards received by film director Christopher Nolan

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