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That has been the difference in Nolan's Batman films. Characters wear silly disguises, but it all feels real
-- so real that Heath Ledger posthumously won the supporting-actor Oscar as the Joker in "The Dark Knight," playing a madman hidden behind makeup that looked like a melted ice cream cake. Nolan "takes it seriously and he treats the characters like human beings, not as caricatures, and he treats the world as a real place," Gordon-Levitt said. "He walks that line of delivering you a spectacle but not talking down to you." It's not as if the academy has disrespected Nolan's films. He's been nominated himself three times, for the screenplays of "Inception" and his 2001 breakout hit "Memento," as well as best-picture as a producer on "Inception." Nolan's films have received 21 nominations -- including eight each for "Inception" and "The Dark Knight"
-- and won six Oscars. "Regardless of whether `The Dark Knight' was nominated or not, we had nothing to complain about," Bale said. "I don't think Chris would be complaining whatsoever. I think he's doing very well." The Directors Guild of America, whose awards contenders usually are a close match for the Oscar directing field, has nominated Nolan three times, for "Memento," "The Dark Knight" and "Inception." Hathaway thinks it's a huge oversight that Oscar voters have yet to follow suit but that "it's probably just a matter of time" before Nolan wins his Oscar. "I hope it happens with this one," she said. Nolan's not fretting over his Oscar prospects, though. He knows it's a different kind of film
-- smaller, more intimate drama -- that usually dominates at the awards. He's actually quite pleased at how his movies have fared during Oscar season. "The academy's been incredibly good to me and my films, and it would be churlish of me to complain," Nolan said. "Really, we've been honored by the academy in more kinds of different ways, and very importantly to me, Heath Ledger winning the best supporting-actor Oscar. These are things that mean a lot to me." Still, wouldn't it mean more to win that directing Oscar himself? "That would be terrific, but at the end of the day, they owe Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock a lot more than me, you know what I mean?" Nolan said, citing two Hollywood greats who never won the directing prize. "It's kind of like, get in line."
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