Sunday, January 1, 2012

research into a Director






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 Christopher Nolan
nominated for 3 oscars another 88 wins and 81 nominations
christopher nolan is known for creating films within the thriller genre 
some insight into his background 
\Nolan was born in London he  was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College, an independent school on Hertford Heath in Hertfordshire, England, and later read English literature at University College London. Nolan chose UCL specifically for its film-making facilities, which consisted of a "Steenbeck editing suite (real film, real spools) plus a couple of 16mm cameras". Nolan was president of the society from 1992 to 1994, a contemporary described him as talented and focused on learning as much as possible about the mechanics and technology of film-making. (from a wikipedia source )



a list of films he has done 
Memento 





After the first few weeks of distribution, Memento had reached more than 500 theaters and earned a domestic total of $25 million in its box-office run. The film's success was surprising to those who passed on the film, so much so that Weinstein realized his mistake and tried to buy the film from Newmarket.


inception 

inception is ranked as the 29th highest earning film of all time 
 the film grossed $823 world wide inception is the second most lucrative production in the careers of both Christopher Nolan – behind The Dark Knight and leonardo Di Caprio behind titanic 
the dark knight 
 The dark knight   was  second in the batman trilogy to be released. In the u.s it grossed a over  158 million dollars making it the third highest grossing film in the United states and the 6th highest grossing film of all time . the film was nominated for a total of 8 oscars  and won two out of the eight that it was nominated for  best the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, and a posthumous Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Ledger.



Batman begins 

Batman Begins was the eighth-highest grossing film of 2005 in the US.
out of all the batman films batman begins has sold the least tickets excluding batman and robin . batman begins grossed $411,348,924 world wide 

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