Why hasn’t Christopher Nolan won an Oscar yet?

Christopher Nolan, an early Oscar favorite director for “Oppenheimer,” has been somewhat overlooked by the film academy, given his esteemed status in the industry.

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Of Nolan’s five Oscar nominations, two were for best picture (“Inception,” “Dunkirk”), two for screenplay (“Memento,” “Inception”) and only one for direction (“Dunkirk”), despite. ..

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…Directors Guild of America Film Nominations (“Memento,” “The Dark Knight,” “Inception,” “Dunkirk”)

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Nolan has not won an Oscar, but his films have won almost a dozen, including Posthumous supporting award to Heath Ledger for “The Dark Knight”, the first acting award for a film based on comics.

2009

Nolan is snubbed in the directing and image categories for “Dark Knight.” The subsequent reaction led the academy to expand the best picture field to…

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… films.

2013

“The Dark Knight Rises,” Nolan’s conclusion to his Batman trilogy, failed to earn a single nomination.

2018

Nolan receives directing and cinematography nominations for his first historically inspired epic, “Dunkirk.” This bodes well for “Oppenheimer.”

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Oscar nominations received by Martin Scorsese at age 53, Nolan’s current age. He has won nine more awards and an Oscar for best director (“The Departed”, 2007) since then and in…

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…there remains fierce competition for Nolan, 53, with “Killers of the Flower Moon,” indicating the younger filmmaker still has ample opportunity to score an Oscar, more nominations and a half-hour to the 3 hour run times of his films.