Christopher Jonathan James Nolan is a British-American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He created several of the most successful films of the early 21st century, and his nine films have gro
Nolan made his directorial debut with Following, he gained considerable attention for his second feature, Memento. The acclaim of these independent films afforded Nolan the opportunity to make the big-budget thriller Insomnia, and the more offbeat production The Prestige; both were well-received critically and commercially. He found further popular and critical success with The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception and Interstellar. Nolan has co-written several of his films with his brother, Jonathan Nolan, and runs the production company Syncopy Inc. with his wife Emma. Nolan met Emma at University College London when he was 19. Emma has worked as a producer on all of his films, and together they founded the production company Syncopy Inc.The couple have four children and reside in Los Angeles.
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Nolan's films are rooted in philosophical and sociological concepts and ideas, exploring human morality, the construction of time, and the malleable nature of memory and personal identity. Experimentation with metafictive elements, temporal shifts, elliptical cutting, solipsistic perspectives, nonlinear storytelling and the analogous relationship between the visual language and narrative elements, permeate his entire body of work.
Nolan, more than a film producer, is a thinker and visionary in our age.
