The man who made “Oppenheimer” and “The Dark Knight” — director Christopher Nolan — will receive an honor at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, as part of the Sundance Institute’s opening-night fundraising gala.
Nolan, whose films include “Tenet,” “Dunkirk” and “Memento,” will receive the institute’s first Trailblazer Award at the Jan. 18 gala at the deJoria Center in Kamas. The event happens on the first night of the 2024 festival, which runs Jan. 18-28 in Park City and Salt Lake City — and celebrates the 40th year that Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute has operated the nation’s premiere festival for independent movies.
Nolan, the institute wrote in a news release, “boldly pushes the parameters of cinematic storytelling.”
Nolan’s history with Sundance goes back to 2001, when he premiered his second movie — the amnesia-centered crime drama “Memento,” starring Guy Pearce and Carrie-Anne Moss — at the festival. Nolan and his brother, Jonathan, went on to win the festival’s Waldo Salt Screenwriting …