Nolan deserves an Academy Award for Best Director

Rating: Null/10 (17 July 2017)

There is a folklore saying that every movie made by Christopher Nolan should win him an Oscar Best Director. But in reality this is not the case. In fact, Nolan is yet to receive an Oscar nomination for directing. To tell the truth, the Academy were seldom, if not never, in favor of a thriller, a sci-fi, or a superhero movie. Even great names like Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, or Ridley Scott were unable to break this unwritten rule.
However, war films are different. Steven Spielberg's two Best Director awards are accomplished through movies both set in World War II. The Vietnam War Trilogy of Oliver Stone twice win him the Oscar. Obviously, Dunkirk is among the greatest war films of all time,and is absolutely no worse than names like Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Schindler's List, or Saving Private Ryan.