Nolan's directorial debut centers on a writer who enjoys secretly following people around London to get ideas for his work. His 70-minute film featured multiple Nolan trademarks, including non-linear storytelling and a male protagonist who has an unusual obsession.
The chronologically backward film starred Guy Pearce as a revenge-obsessed man who has lost his short-term memory and lives only to find his wife's killer.
Al Pacino and Robin Williams starred in the Alaska-set mystery about the murder of a teenage girl.
Nolan graduated to true blockbuster territory with his gritty Batman reboot — a film that has since been invoked by countless filmmakers to describe the tone they hope to strike with origin stories of their own.
It was Batman vs. Wolverine when Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman faced off in Nolan's film about magicians obsessed with topping one another — sometimes to violent ends.
Heath Ledger won a posthumous Oscar for his portrayal of The Joker in what many comic book aficionados consider to be the best superhero film of all time.
Nolan teamed up with Leonardo DiCaprio for one of the most inventive heist movies of all time.
Nolan concluded his Dark Knight trilogy with a film that pitted Bane (Tom Hardy) against Batman. The film was marred by tragedy, when a mass shooting occurred at a screening in Aurora, Colo., where 12 people died.
Nolan's space epic stars Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway as two of the astronauts and also features Jessica Chastain, Casey Affleck and Michael Caine. Read THR's Interstellar roundtable with Nolan and his stars here.