Having made virtually $1 billion on the field workplace and obtained important acclaim, Oppenheimer has a number one 13 nominations at this 12 months’s Academy Awards.

Christopher Nolan is extensively thought-about to be one of many best residing Hollywood administrators however extremely has by no means gained a serious award till this 12 months.

Following his Golden Globe and BAFTA wins, the 53-year-old is predicted to select up the Best Director and Best Picture Oscars on Sunday night, in what is predicted to lastly be his 12 months.

The British filmmaker, who has an estimated internet price of $250 million, is ready to be paid one of many greatest sums ever to a director for Oppenheimer, which his spouse Emma Thomas produced with him.

And it’s hardly shocking provided that Nolan, who additionally wrote the screenplay, wager on himself.

According to Forbes, Nolan is incomes an estimated 15 per cent of Oppenheimer’s first greenback gross. What this implies is the director is paid a share of each cent the blockbuster earns earlier than Universal recoups its bills. 

From the field workplace takings, residence video gross sales and streamer licencing alone, he’s anticipated to make an estimated $72 million pre-tax. That’s after his agent and lawyer charges. And not solely that, however the whole will proceed to rise for years to return with contemporary streamer licensing.