Here's Why Christopher Nolan Is 'The Biggest Movie Star In The World' After Oppenheimer Oscars Win

[@subhashismandal9871]

When a director is considered the main star of the film, you really can't say enough after that.

[@rainmaker1169]

The Nolan brand carries a lot of weight, his name is as big as the actors he casts.

[@ADifferentVibe]

To me, he is the actual star of all his films

[@williamegan6756]

In my opnion, it is not 'as big' - it's bigger. I go to see a Christopher Nolan film for one reason: it is by Christopher Nolan.

[@oscarpye8151]

@@williamegan6756 same bro same, for me his name and the pull it has is on the same level as Tarantino and Scorsese

[@EdenVarel]

@@ADifferentVibe I agree, and I find it very fair that a director gets more recognition than the actors, because he is much more important in the process.

[@tronam]

Same with James Cameron. He’s the reason people flock to theaters, not the actors.

[@vamos419]

“From the Director Christopher Nolan” is all the promotion a movie needs. Now imagine from next time it’ll be “From Academy Award Winning Director Chris Nolan”

[@giantqtipz6577]

"The visionary behind Oppenheimer, The Dark Knight, Dunkirk, The Prestige, Inception, Interstellar, Insomnia" not Tenet tho

[@vamos419]

@@giantqtipz6577 Tenet was actually used in Oppenheimer trailer many times before in theaters in the US. 😂

[@sandychin1326]

Tom Cruise held Maverick for theatre release too. Agree with Nolan, movies releases should be in the theatres

[@michaelmonthey5974]

Nolan should cast Cruise at some point since they are both passionate about the theatrical experience and are 2 of the biggest names in Hollywood.

[@contentcorsair]

Plus they love to do things practically

[@donkeychan491]

Nolan should rerelease one of his earlier films "The Prestige" which was unjustly neglected & is in my opinion a masterpiece and one of his best films. Given his name recognition nowadays it would get a much bigger box office.

[@DRM-nb1fg]

I would love to see The Prestige on a big theater screen once again. I saw it in 2006 when it first came out. The Colorado scenes in particular were jawdropping on the big screen. It's too bad the movie didn't get more attention at the time. Nolan should have been nominated for Best Director & Best Picture on that one.

[@equisetuminc]

Had this conversation with a person in film/video industry last night: Its one thing to sit in room alone and make art, and clearly another to manage an enormous team and motivate (inspire) them to do something magnificent. Oppenheimer is a rare success.

[@helenheeney2284]

Gosh ridiculous no comparison Oppenhimer outstanding breathtaking brilliant

[@prahladsethi76]

With his Oscar win, Nolan has cemented himself as the greatest director of the 21st century.

[@Starblockss]

Bro chill the century barely even started

[@shahzadirani]

He didn't need the Oscar to cement it, but the Oscar is like the cherry on top of the cake.

[@prahladsethi76]

​@@StarblockssYou are right, brother. I went a little overboard with my statement. The 21st century has barely started, and there are a handful of directors whom I can see achieving the title. And Paul Thomas Anderson is the most probable candidate to hold the title at the end of this century.

[@esciteach7997]

please watch Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. Then there is James Cameron. I love Nolan (watched Inception 4 times; please explain it to me); Interstellar one of my top 10 movies all time. Spielberg still better.

[@prahladsethi76]

​@@esciteach7997I have watched both of these films, and Schindler's List is one of my all-time favorites. But both of these films are from the 1990s, and Spielberg got best director at the Oscars for each film. That time period was the heyday of Spielberg's career, but his post-2001 films have not been up to par with his pre-2001 work. So, I will consider him one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. And as far as his being a better filmmaker than Nolan is concerned, I definitely agree with you on that for the time being, but then I will say that Nolan's era has just begun and we are in for a lot of surprises from the auteur. He and Paul Thomas Anderson are two filmmakers whom I can bet on emerging as two of the greatest filmmakers of the 21st century.

[@sandychin1326]

I wish I saw Interstellar in IMAX

[@domingocinema]

There are rumors that it may be rereleased to IMAX this year.

[@ArnaudMuller]

I did and it was amazing

[@markdavenport8737]

'Two and a half hours?' Oppenheimer running time 180 minutes.

[@TheDabombg28]

James Cameron has directed 3 of the buggest 4 films of all time. The crazy thing is that all 3 were years apart. He is a bigger name world wide.

[@esciteach7997]

I just posted the same; Spielberg - Cameron - Nolan

[@tintin.404]

Just don't want to wait another 2 - 5 years for another Nolan movie.

[@MoManiaTV]

feel like it will be like 2025 when his next movie comes out

[@wellcomematt]

Forget your friends, I'll go with you to movies. Anytime.

[@AficionadoOfArt]

The man, made Memento in 1999. That’s actually why.

[@Angyali]

Not exactly. His first film was Following in 1998, followed by Memento in 2000.

[@kayz5428]

Christopher Nolan the 🐐. Next movie going to be another block buster masterpiece classic 🔥🔥

[@donleonshi]

Well deserved win. Strong film 🏆

[@ParthapratimsChannel]

It was good. Host and guest and the discussion all of them.

[@annettegilbert3715]

I went because I'm a bookseller and I was interested in the subject! There I discovered Cilllian Murphy who was absolutely phenomenal in the title role! His performance certainly contributed to Oppenheimer's success!

[@carolynshaffer425]

While I greatly appreciate this in-depth examination of what makes “Oppenheimer “ and Christopher Nolan a winner with critics and audiences, I’m wondering why the excellent interviewer and interviewee didn’t explore whether film-viewing AUDIENCES may have matured over the past few years. Collectively, we’ve been through life-and-death challenges on major fronts-public health, economic health, mental health, and more. Trust in almost every major institution is eroding. More and more people are questioning everything. Upon what can we rely? Maybe many flocked to “Oppenheimer” and to “Barbie” because the main characters in those stories began questioning everything they had been taught-and the titular stars in each had the courage to go 180-degrees against the cultural conditioning they had grown up and become more fully themselves even though it might mean losing everything. I thought “Barbie” was going to be a silly movie. Was I ever wrong-and I did enjoy the colors and the laughs along with the shattering of stereotypes. I knew “Oppenheimer “ was going to be deadly serious. I had no idea it would give me the pleasure of meeting, via the silver screen and multiple media interviews, both Cillian Murphy and Christopher Nolan, two men who appear to live with impeccable integrity and to say yes only to “entertainment” projects that have meaning for them. May I live my life this way. And may millions of viewers of these movies do likewise. YES! 🙌 ❤🎉

[@michaelmonthey5974]

Christopher Nolan is the Stanley Kubrick of the 21st century!

[@Tallontherocks]

Great topic. Love Christopher Nolan.

[@hcavill8144]

Movie did “pretty well”??? It was R-rated biopic 3 hour movie about the father of the atomic bomb and made almost $1B. Get real.

[@fielalmanga]

13:40 it was actually one of the first movies to come out in 2020 post quarantine. And obviously it didn't go straight into streaming services. This Mandela effect nonsense has to stop already. 14:00 but they did though 23:58 but we do know, it went to theaters and a few months later to apple tv+

[@HawkFest]

I liked the movie, different, lots of "inner" psychedelics etc. I was uncomfortable with the lack of the numerous implications and drama surrounding Oppenheimer being exploited, especially in the dialogues: there's a lot of them, but most are essentially "administrative" with references to characters we have no idea who they are etc. I almost felt that he missed an opportunity to dive deep into those implications, as there were so many things going around that project... However, Nolan is one of the two masters of film making nowadays: he knew how to bring out its feeling, as it was not about the project itself, rather about Oppenheimer, the conversations and dialogues becoming "accessories" more than anything else. For that matter, I think it's am excellent movie, directed by a Master who is not afraid to go and explore outside the box.

[@DrNancyLivingCoCreatively]

I live near Los Alamos. We sit on uranium. I had an Oppenheimer friend. A man deeply committed to peace. Los Alamos has a great public library. Not impressed w the nuclear museum. I preferred Barbie.

[@oobrocks]

Oppenheimer is precisely 3 hours…how is that difficult to remember??

[@pgp]

The way she rephrases his previous lines before every question is so funny. Almost AI like lol

[@clairetrinkle3034]

AWESOME…….Oppenheimer…👍❤️👏💪👏👍❤️👏💪👏❤️👍❤️👏💪

[@CameronBrooks]

Pretty amazing how 80-90 percent of the movie is people sitting or standing in rooms.. talking

[@frankb821]

If I were EON, I'd lock Nolan into a 3 picture James Bond deal asap

[@j.k.1239]

Nolan is the GOAT.

[@Count3d]

Yeah Warner Bros messed up losing Nolan.

[@thearchitect1]

Emma Stone has been in two Spider Man movies…I might say those are two “GIANT GIANT Blockbuster” movies lol

[@michaelmonthey5974]

Warner Bros. Pictures made a BIG mistake by releasing their most expensive movies straight to streaming instead of just the theaters, which cost them Nolan AND their bottom line.

[@tronam]

It was the damned pandemic dude and they did release Tenet in theaters. It did quite well, all things considered.

[@michaelmonthey5974]

@@tronam Not as well as previous releases though. It grossed only $350 million against its $205 million budget. Up until that point, Nolan’s Warner Bros movies consistently grossed at least $500 million or higher since The Dark Knight. If it wasn’t for the pandemic, as well as management shake-ups within the company, it could have done better. You are right that they released Tenet in the theaters, which was less than a year before they decided to release all of their other movies in theaters and on MAX simultaneously. Nevertheless, this led to Nolan leaving Warner Bros., and it turned out to be one of the worst business decisions in the company’s history. Bottom line, movies with 9 figure budgets and streaming services don’t mix, pandemic or not.

[@tronam]

@@michaelmonthey5974 Of course it didn’t do as well as previous releases. Theatrical exhibition was only running at about 60%, even lower in some areas, and yet Nolan insisted on releasing it anyway. At the time my local theater wasn’t even open.

[@sakuragi1062]

@@tronam Well its part of the deal Nolan made Tenet specifically for Cinema not for HBO Max even Denis Villeneuve is also fighting for Dune to be release on Cinema despite of WB also wants to release it on Streaming service as well. You dont fck your directors and release their movies on streaming services unwillingly regardless of the circumstances.

[@tronam]

@@sakuragi1062 It’s not the pandemic anymore. WB was not pushing for Dune 2 to skip theaters and go straight to streaming. They’ve been doing the exact opposite and pushing theatrical exhibition harder than they have in years.

[@akshayde]

all nolan movies post the prestige are about nolan. its hardly about the story even and the actors take a backseat. even his batman movie are not batman movies. they are nolan movies featuring batman. we are watching a one of kind filmmaker (and no im not a fan) and his trajectory of scaling up. he is now holding the space that once a tarantino, spielberg, scorcese held.

[@Silentsilo987]

Haha, I can't hardly get my friends to go to the theater either.

[@triodesrbetter]

To Warner Brothers (before the Discovery merger): that's why you give a "whiny" director whatever he wants. That pre-Discovery merger regime are terrible business people, going against the Golden rule.

[@CharleneImperatrice]

Dark money backed Oppenheimer..Scary .....

[@Topself24]

Oppenheimer did good cuz of Barbie. I am surprised he didn’t speak on this double feature phenomenon.

[@sakuragi1062]

Oppenheimer did good because its Christopher Nolan movie before Oppenheimer Nolan movies always makes 600 to 900 million range and his 2 Batman movies made Billions at the box office worldwide claiming that Barbie is the main reason why Oppenheimer did good is plain stupid.

[@mikezip007]

I cant believe barbie was nominated for best picture 🙈

[@runabath]

Because there is f all films good out at the moment 😮

[@AficionadoOfArt]

Her voice is screaming #FakenailsonaBlackboard

[@PeterZeeke]

my god, I'm getting old

[@owshii7539]

Next up, Dune.

[@65g4]

Only winning seven 7!

[@dustindixon6628]

Love Nolan - Oppenheimer was great, but as far as just a "star" goes. you won't beat Tom Cruise. Even between Oppenheimer and Barbie doing so well after it opening the latest Mission: Impossible almost got to 600M WW. The next one I'd imagine will be about 300M bigger just because it could very well be the last - for a while anyway. And a conclusion to the story started. Also he got snubbed way more than any film in recent memory in 2022-2023 with Top Gun: Maverick. It exceeded Oppenheimer in every way, even reviews. It should have gotten best picture, too. And a nom if nothing else for Cruise as an actor (again). Thing is if Nolan were to cast Cruise ever (which won't happen I doubt) it would explode. These guys are on fire. But if I had to bet any project, circumstance, situation, genre, etc I'd go with Tom Cruise.

[@sagivijayaramaraju1153]

Tom cruise could make oppenheimer scene by scene and it wouldn't make no where near 950m at the box office. Also Dead reckoning barely was a hit at the box office.

[@dustindixon6628]

@@sagivijayaramaraju1153 I didn't say anything you said so go somewhere else and vent

[@Starblockss]

Top Gun should have gotten Best Picture? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@dustindixon6628]

yes it should have it was just as good as Oppenheimer, reviews agree, box office agree, user reviews agree. Enough said.@@Starblockss

[@Starblockss]

@@dustindixon6628 yes a movie about cgi planes flying around attacking a made up military base definitely deserves an Oscar.

[@360.Tapestry]

i finally watched oppenheimer the other day. it was just ok. the actors were phenomenal, the subject matter is of course inherently interesting, but the presentation - the excessive nolanisms and unrestrained nolanization - made the movie worse, not better. in my opinion, the story succeeds (barely) in spite of the storyteller. i appreciate that nolan goes for big ideas, but he just plugs them into his same old nolan formula now

[@chiragmandawat9487]

2nd biggest accepted, bigest is and always will be shah rukh khan

[@CharleneImperatrice]

Horrible movie. Why teach bomb building ? We are sick humans ....

[@TrvisXXIII]

Overrated

[@BigBrotherBoohooTube]

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[@jcp1984again]

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