Christopher Nolan finally receives his first Oscar nomination for Best Director for his 2017 film, Dunkirk. Nolan is an ambitious and influential director in Hollywood, shepherding movies such as The Dark Knight trilogy and Interstellar, which has earned him enough clout in the industry, especially at Warner Bros. Pictures, in which he can now produce virtually any film he wants and still contractually receive final cut rights. That doesn’t happen often. And he leveraged that professional relationship to make Dunkirk.
The 2017 film retells the story of Operation Dynamo during WWII, which was a large-scale evacuation of nearly 400,000 Allied forces in June 1940 from Dunkirk, France. ...
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