Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan gets his first Oscar nomination for Best Director

Jan 232018

Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan has scored his first-ever Oscar nomination for Best Director for his war drama ‘Dunkirk’.

Christopher Nolan

Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan has scored his first-ever Oscar nomination for Best Director for his war drama “Dunkirk”.

Nolan picked up his first-ever Oscar nomination on Tuesday after three previous bids stalled with the Academy, reports variety.com.

While the Directors Guild of America had nominated Nolan for “Memento” (2000), “The Dark Knight” (2008) and “Inception” (2010) prior to this year’s recognition for his latest feat of virtuoso filmmaking, but he was never nominated.

To win his first Oscar as the Best Director, Nolan will be fighting it out with Jordan Peele for “Get Out”, Greta Gerwig for “Lady Bird”, Paul Thomas Anderson for “Phantom Thread” and Guillermo del Toro for “The Shape of Water”.

In addition to the director recognition this year, Nolan was also nominated alongside wife and co-producer Emma Thomas in the Best Picture category for his gripping World War II drama.

“Dunkirk” received eight Oscar nominations in total, the majority of them throughout the Academy’s various craft categories. The 90th annual Oscars will be held here on March 4. It will air in India on Star Movies and Star Movies Select on March 5.

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Christian Bale Just Put On A Ton Of Weight Again, This Time To Play Dick Cheney

Celebrities

Sep 072017

Christian Bale is one of the most dedicated actors out there. He is quite well-known for going to great lengths to transform himself for his movie roles.

To play the role of drug-addict Dicky Eklund in ‘The Fighter’ he shed the pounds big time, but that was nothing compared to the lengths he went to while preparing for 2003’s ‘The Machinist’.

Christian Bale Looks Unrecognisable As He Prepares For The Role Of Dick Cheney © Paramount Pictures

His famous skeletal frame for that movie was achieved through a diet of “water, an apple and one cup of coffee per day, with the occasional whiskey.” Apparently after losing about 30kgs, he wanted to go even further, but producers had to stop him because he could have died.

And, then 6 months after that, he was playing the lead role in ‘Batman Begins’ for which he had to bulk up big time. With a high-protein diet and regime involving heavy-core, plyometrics and resistance training, he packed on a whopping 45kgs, only for Christopher Nolan to turn around and tell him to lose about 10 because he’d got a bit too fat.

Now, he has gone and done it again. Christian Bale debuted a plumper look over the weekend at the Telluride Film Festival, where he premiered his upcoming movie ‘Hostiles’.

He looks unrecognizable now as he prepares to portray former US Vice President Dick Cheney in an up-coming bio pic. He has even dyed his eyebrows blond to emulate the politician.

The biopic is called ‘Backseat’, and will focus on how Cheney’s politics “changed the world.” It also stars Amy Adams as Lynne Cheney, Sam Rockwell as former President George W. Bush, Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld and Bill Pullman as Nelson Rockefeller.

Seems like quite a complicated role, but if there’s anyone who can pull it off and make the film memorable, it’s Christian.