The Dark Knight Rises
2012
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Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 2009 · Winner
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role 2009 · Winner
Academy Award Actor in a Supporting Role 2009 · Winner
Academy Award Sound Editing 2009 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Supporting Actor 2009 · Winner
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Action Performance By a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture 2008 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Special Visual Effects 2009 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Make Up and Hair 2009 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Cinematography 2009 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Sound 2009 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Editing 2009 · Nominated
Academy Award Sound Mixing 2009 · Nominated
Academy Award Film Editing 2009 · Nominated
Los Premios Goya Best European Film 2009 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Production Design 2009 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Costume Design 2009 · Nominated
Academy Award Art Direction 2009 · Nominated
Academy Award Visual Effects 2009 · Nominated
Academy Award Cinematography 2009 · Nominated
Academy Award Makeup 2009 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Music 2009 · Nominated
The Dark Knight garnered numerous awards and nominations with particular praise for Heath Ledger's performance of the Joker. The film received eight Academy Award nominations at the 81st Academy Awards in 2009, winning two for Best Sound Editing and Best Supporting Actor ( posthumously awarded to Ledger). [4]
The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, and Aaron Eckhart. It won 163 awards and received 164 nominations, including an Oscar for Heath Ledger's posthumous performance as the Joker.
The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan from a screenplay co-written with his brother Jonathan. Based on the DC Comics superhero Batman, it is the sequel to Batman Begins (2005) and the second installment in The Dark Knight trilogy. The plot follows the vigilante Batman, police lieutenant James Gordon, and ...
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The Dark Knight, American superhero film, released in 2008, that is considered one of the greatest superhero movies ever made. Directed by Christopher Nolan, the film is the second installment in The Dark Knight trilogy, which was launched with Batman Begins in 2005 and concluded with The Dark Knight Rises in 2012. Although all three films were suc...
Nolan’s previous Batman film, Batman Begins, had been a commercial and critical success, effectively establishing him as a blockbuster director. While Nolan and cowriter David S. Goyer had discussed in broad terms the possibility of sequels, they had not laid out specific plans or written subsequent films before Batman Begins was released. However,...
The film takes place in Gotham City some time after the events of Batman Begins. A gang of masked criminals robs a bank run by Gotham’s mob. One by one, the criminals betray each other until only one remains, revealing himself to be the Joker (Heath Ledger), and he escapes with the cash. The Joker is not the mob’s only problem—they are also threatened by the efforts of both Batman (Christian Bale) and the city’s new district attorney, Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart). The leaders of the mob meet to discuss how to respond to these various threats when the Joker crashes the gathering and offers to kill Batman for a price.
With the help of Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), Batman travels to Hong Kong to apprehend a mob accountant named Lau (Chin Han), who has hidden the mob’s fortune and fled the country. When Batman delivers Lau to the police, the evidence they have assembled allows Dent to pursue a case against the membership of each constituent organization of the mob. However, the Joker murders a copycat Batman and threatens to kill more people unless Batman reveals his identity. The Joker then attempts to kill Dent at a fundraiser, while the Joker’s followers murder others involved in the case against the mob. The Joker is confronted by assistant district attorney Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal), with whom both Dent and Batman are in love. Dawes manages to stall the Joker until Batman arrives. A fight breaks out, and the Joker pushes Dawes out of a window. Batman saves her, but the Joker escapes.
The Joker attempts to assassinate the mayor (Néstor Carbonell), apparently killing police officer Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) instead. Dent claims to be Batman in a bid to draw out the Joker. He is arrested and traveling in a police convoy when the Joker attacks. Batman appears and stops the Joker’s attack, and the Joker is eventually apprehended by Gordon, who, it turns out, is still alive. The captured Joker is taken to a police station where Batman tortures him; however, this violent interrogation seems only to amuse the Joker. He reveals that his followers have captured both Dent and Dawes, keeping them in separate locations to force Batman to choose which one to save. Although Batman chooses to save Dawes, it is revealed that the Joker has given him the wrong address—Dawes dies and Batman rescues Dent, though Dent suffers severe burns in the process. In the midst of the turmoil, the Joker escapes from police custody.
Batman must try to track down the Joker and foil his scheme to bring chaos to Gotham City while dealing with the loss of Dawes. However, the scarred and mourning Dent is determined to pursue his own revenge, complicating Batman’s vision for the future of Gotham City and his ability to bring it to fruition.
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The Dark Knight was met with widespread critical acclaim. Critics praised its combination of tense, gritty crime-drama and thrilling superhero action. In a 2008 review, film critic Roger Ebert commended the movie’s compelling performances and storytelling, stating, “Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is a haunted film that leaps beyond its origins and becomes an engrossing tragedy. It creates characters we come to care about.” Cinematographer Wally Pfister was widely praised for his stark and foreboding transformation of the streets of Chicago into Gotham City. Perhaps more than anything else, however, critics and fans lauded Ledger’s twisted, chaotic incarnation of the Joker, which was his final completed film performance before his untimely death in 2008, and for which he won a posthumous Academy Award for best supporting actor.
In addition to being one of the most highly acclaimed films of the year, The Dark Knight was a massive box-office hit and became the first superhero film to gross more than $1 billion worldwide. Despite this success, the film failed to garner an Academy Award nomination for best picture. The resulting backlash from this apparent snub has been credited with prompting the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to expand its slate of best picture nominations from five to as many as 10 each year. The Dark Knight was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won for best sound editing in addition to Ledger’s best supporting actor.
•Studios: Warner Brothers, Legendary Entertainment, Syncopy, DC Comics
•Director: Christopher Nolan
•Producers: Kevin de la Noy, Benjamin Melniker, Thomas Tull, Michael E. Uslan
•Screenplay: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
•Story: Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer
•Music: Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard
•Christian Bale (Bruce Wayne/Batman)
•Heath Ledger (the Joker)
•Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Dent)
•Maggie Gyllenhaal (Rachel Dawes)
•Gary Oldman (Jim Gordon)
•Morgan Freeman (Lucius Fox)
- Stephen Eldridge
Jul 18, 2008 · The Dark Knight is a 2008 action crime drama film directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, and Aaron Eckhart. It won two Oscars and received critical acclaim for its portrayal of the Joker as a psychopathic mastermind.
The Dark Knight Rises: Won International Film Music Critics Association Awards: Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror Film: Hans Zimmer: Nominated Key Art Awards: Gold Key Art Award – Integrated Campaign The Dark Knight Rises: Won Gold Key Art Award – Print Category Won Kids Choice Awards: Favorite Female Buttkicker Anne ...
