Christopher Nolan CBE is a British-American film director. Christopher Nolan has never won an Oscar. However, he has been nominated for five Academy Awards.

Aside from him not winning an Oscar, Christopher Nolan has received numerous awards and honors throughout his career.

Christopher Nolan is the recipient of five British Academy Film Awards and five Golden Globe Awards.

In 2011, Nolan received the Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in Directing from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the American Cinema Editors’ ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award.

That same year, he received the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s highest honor, the Modern Master Award. In addition, Nolan received the Visual Effects Society’s inaugural VES Visionary Award.

In 2012, he became the youngest director to be honored with a hand-and-footprint ceremony at Los Angeles’ Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.

In 2014, Nolan received Slamdance Film Festival’s first-ever Founder’s Award. The director has had career retrospectives at the Walker Art Center and the Institut Lumière.

In the 2019 New Year Honours, he was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his contributions to film.