Nolan: Christopher Edward Nolan was

Christopher Edward Nolan was born on 30 July 1970 in Westminster, London. [1][2] His father, Brendan James Nolan , is a British retired advertising executive of Irish descent [3] who worked as a creative director. His mother, Christina Jensen, was an American flight attendant from Evanston, Illinois; she would later work as a teacher of English. He has an elder brother, Matthew, and a younger brother, Jonathan, also a filmmaker. The three brothers were raised Catholic in Highgate and spent ... Nolan at the 2013 premiere of Man of Steel Sir Christopher Nolan is a British-American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature directorial debut was the neo-noir crime thriller Following (1998) which was made on a budget of $6,000. [1][note 1] Two years later, he directed the psychological thriller Memento (2000) which starred Guy Pearce as a man suffering from anterograde amnesia (short-term memory loss) searching for his wife's killer. [3] Similar to his debut feature ... Christopher Nolan after winning awards at the at the 77th British Academy Film Arts Awards (BAFTA) Christopher Nolan had such a perfect outsider journey into Hollywood filmmaking, he makes transforming into one of the world’s foremost A-list directors look simple. First, you make your requisite black-and-white feature debut for less than a half-million dollars (Following) in England. Then you come over to America, put together an inventive, almost revolutionary indie (Memento), which gets you invited into the big studio system for Insomnia, where two seasoned pros like Robin Williams ...