Every Christopher Nolan Movie, Ranked by Fans
Rank all 13 Christopher Nolan films head-to-head: The Dark Knight vs Inception, Interstellar vs Oppenheimer, Memento vs The Prestige, and The Odyssey. Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
Size
The Dark Knight2008
The Odyssey2026
Tap a poster to make your pick. Crowd numbers appear after you choose.
How the community ranks them
Results appear here as people finish brackets. Each pick feeds the head-to-head numbers, so the first players decide where all 13 start.
How the Christopher Nolan Movies bracket works
This Nolan movie ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Following or Memento? Insomnia or Batman Begins? — and after 12 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. A straight list invites you to hedge. A matchup does not, and that is what makes the final 13-deep order worth screenshotting.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 13-slot size (Opening round, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), with every one of the 13 films in the field. 13 is not a power of two, so 3 of them draw a first-round bye — spread evenly across the draw rather than handed to whoever happens to land at the top of it. The draw is seeded: the same for everyone today, different tomorrow, and different again whenever you press New draw. You can also play it at 8 slots for a shorter or longer run.
12 picks, 4 rounds
- Opening round5 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 13 entrants
All 13 entrants are listed below, including Following, Memento, Insomnia and Batman Begins.
- Following1998
- Memento2000
- Insomnia2002
- Batman Begins2005
- The Prestige2006
- The Dark Knight2008
- Inception2010
- The Dark Knight Rises2012
- Interstellar2014
- Dunkirk2017
- Tenet2020
- Oppenheimer2023
- The Odyssey2026
Tier list instead?
Load all 13 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
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Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Pick the film you would actually rewatch tonight, not the one with the better reputation.
- The default run puts all 13 films in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 8 slots — a quicker run over a random 8 of them.
- Use undo the moment you regret a pick. One reflex answer in an early round can knock out a favourite before it gets going.
Questions people ask
How many films are in the Christopher Nolan Movies bracket?
The pool holds 13 films. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 12 picks across 4 rounds: Opening round, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. 3 entrants start with a first-round bye, spread evenly through the draw. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 13 slots.
Which films are included?
Following, Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Tenet and Oppenheimer, plus 1 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Christopher Nolan Movies bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 12 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. There is no sign-up, and your progress is saved on this device after every pick.
Is this a christopher nolan movies tier list or a ranking?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other film grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 12 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two films that never met. If you would rather place the films into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 13 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Is there a community christopher nolan movies ranking?
Every completed bracket feeds the Christopher Nolan Movies community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 13 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I change which films are included?
Use the bracket maker: add your own films, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 13 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.