MVP for Best Director

This week I decided to give out my MVP award for best writer/director.  If you look at the past decade the award has to go to Christopher Nolan, the British American director has comes out with some of the most unique and captivating movies over and over again. 

Memento (2000) - A psychological thriller like none before it.  The movie starts at the end and goes back 5 minutes at a time that leads up to an ending or beginning (depending on how you look at it) that leaves you stunned.  Nolan added great depth to the film by having scenes in black and white as well has color scenes too.  Memento earned Nolan 2 Academy Award Nominations.

Batman Begins (2005) - Nolan reinvented the Batman franchise and gave batman fans something actually worth watching.  After a series of failed batman movies the last one with Arnold Schwarzenegger, which was hard to watch it was so bad.  Nolan took a new approach to Gotham City and Bruce Wayne in a way that you could actually feel for both the city and him.  The sequel The Dark Knight (2008) was one of the biggest movies of the year, and really put Nolan on the Map.  Health Ledger as the Joker stole the show and gave perhaps the best evil villain performance in a super-hero movie.  Nolan’s Dark Knight is one of the 10 highest grossing films of all time.  The two Movies combined have earned him 9 Academy Award Nominations.

Inception (2010) - Nolan wrote, directed, and produced the movie of the decade that will go down in history as one of the greatest films of all time.  The movie is so unique and unlike anything I’ve ever seen before that I saw it in theaters 4 times and sure as hell was at the store to buy it the first day if came out.  Nolan sends the audience on a thrill ride of a life time the last hour of the movie is incredibly intense and ends with you leaving exhausted from being so emotionally involved in the movie.  Nolan also leaves you with an ending that you will debate with your friends for the rest of your life.

Christopher Nolan is the best director in the 21^st century with all his movies being so unique and different but leaves you wanting more.  Every movie he directors is better then the last.  He has directed 5 of the best movies in the past decade with Memento, Batman Begins, The Prestige, Dark Knight, and Inception.  Nolan has everyone at the edge of there seat for his newest project and conclusion to the Batman trilogy.  The Dark Knight rises is one of the most anticipated films of the year and I can count of Nolan to come through with another Best Picture winner.