Updated On: 11 March, 2024 08:50 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Before Oscars 2024, Christopher Nolan received five nominations for three different films but never won an Academy Award.

Christopher Nolan accepts the award for Best Director for `Oppenheimer` Pic/AFP
Ace filmmaker Christopher Nolan won his first-ever Oscar for the biopic `Oppenheimer`. Nolan bagged the coveted statuette for `Best Director` as well as for `Best Picture` at the 96th Academy Awards. Nolan beat off competition from Jonathan Glazer of "The Zone of Interest," Yorgos Lanthimos of "Poor Things," Martin Scorsese of "Killers of the Flower Moon," and Justine Triet of "Anatomy of a Fall."
Before Oscars 2024, Nolan received five nominations for three different films but never won an Academy Award. He was nominated for Best Original Screenplay for Memento (2002), Best Picture and Original Screenplay for Inception (2010), and Best Picture and Best Director nods for Dunkirk (2018).