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Who directed this film: Steven Spielberg or Christopher Nolan?

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Steven Spielberg or Christopher Nolan?

Spielberg 10

  • Jaws Right Wrong

    Adapted from Peter Benchley's novel, this 1975 film is often seen as the first summer blockbuster. The mechanical shark broke down so often that it had to be shown as little as possible, which only heightened the suspense.

  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind Right Wrong

    Released in 1977, this science fiction film gave the French film-maker François Truffaut the role of a French scientist. The five musical notes used to communicate with the aliens remain famous. Photo: a model of the mother ship.

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark Right Wrong

    The first Indiana Jones adventure, released in 1981. Dreamed up by George Lucas, the whip-cracking archaeologist played by Harrison Ford hunts for the Ark of the Covenant, coveted by the Nazis. Photo: a replica of the Ark.

  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Right Wrong

    Released in 1982, this tale of friendship between a little boy and an alien stranded on Earth remained the biggest box-office hit in history for more than ten years.

  • Hook Right Wrong

    In this 1991 film, Robin Williams plays a grown-up Peter Pan who must return to Neverland to face Captain Hook, played by Dustin Hoffman. Julia Roberts plays Tinker Bell.

  • Jurassic Park Right Wrong

    Adapted from Michael Crichton's novel, this 1993 film made special effects history by combining computer-generated dinosaurs with life-size animatronic creatures.

  • Schindler's List Right Wrong

    Shot in black and white and released in 1993, this film tells how the industrialist Oskar Schindler saved more than a thousand Jews. It won 7 Oscars, including Best Picture. Photo: his former factory in Kraków.

  • Saving Private Ryan Right Wrong

    This 1998 film opens with a harrowing recreation of the Omaha Beach landing, lasting around twenty-five minutes. Tom Hanks leads a squad sent to find a paratrooper in Normandy.

  • Minority Report Right Wrong

    Adapted from a Philip K. Dick short story, this 2002 thriller imagines a police force that arrests criminals before they act, thanks to "precogs". Photo: a prediction ball on display at a convention.

  • War of the Worlds Right Wrong

    An adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel, released in 2005. Tom Cruise plays a father trying to protect his children from an invasion of gigantic alien tripods.

Nolan 10

  • Memento Right Wrong

    This 2000 thriller follows a man unable to form new memories, who tattoos the clues of his investigation on his body. Much of the story is told backwards, from the end to the beginning.

  • Batman Begins Right Wrong

    Released in 2005, this film rebooted the Batman saga with Christian Bale and tells how the vigilante came to be. It introduced the "Tumbler" Batmobile, an armoured vehicle that looks like a tank.

  • The Prestige Right Wrong

    Adapted from a novel by Christopher Priest, this 2006 film pits two rival magicians against each other in late 19th-century London. David Bowie plays the inventor Nikola Tesla, photographed here in his laboratory.

  • The Dark Knight Right Wrong

    In this 2008 film, Heath Ledger plays the Joker, a role that earned him a posthumous Oscar. His line "Why so serious?" became so famous that it ended up on walls.

  • Inception Right Wrong

    Leonardo DiCaprio leads a team able to infiltrate dreams and plant an idea there. Released in 2010, the film ends on a spinning top, leaving the audience in doubt.

  • The Dark Knight Rises Right Wrong

    Released in 2012, this film concludes a Batman trilogy. The vigilante faces Bane, played by Tom Hardy, and pilots "The Bat", the flying machine shown here.

  • Interstellar Right Wrong

    In this 2014 film, astronauts set off in search of a habitable planet. The black hole Gargantua was calculated with the physicist Kip Thorne, a future Nobel laureate, and even led to scientific papers.

  • Dunkirk Right Wrong

    This 2017 film retraces the evacuation of Allied soldiers trapped at Dunkirk in 1940. Partly shot on the actual beach at Dunkirk, it weaves together three points of view: on land, at sea and in the air.

  • Tenet Right Wrong

    Released in 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, this spy film features objects and people moving backwards through time. Its title is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions.

  • Oppenheimer Right Wrong

    This 2023 film retraces the life of the physicist Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, played by Cillian Murphy. It won 7 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director.

Science fiction, adventure, war films: Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan are among the most popular film-makers of their generation. The first, born in the United States in 1946, has had hit after hit since the 1970s. The second, born in London in 1970, has been making big-screen spectacles as ambitious as they are cerebral since the late 1990s. Can you work out who directed each of these films?

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Frequently asked questions

Who are Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan?

Steven Spielberg is an American director and producer born in Cincinnati in 1946. He co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks. Christopher Nolan is a British-American director born in London in 1970. He often writes his screenplays with his brother Jonathan and produces his films with his wife, Emma Thomas.

Do films they only produced count?

No. This quiz only includes feature films that each of them directed himself. Both film-makers have also produced films directed by others.

Why aren't the pictures always posters?

Most film posters are protected by copyright. We use images under free licences: title logos, props on display, places or objects linked to the story of the film.

Photo credits

Jaws : Roger Kastel, domaine public, via Wikimedia Commons ; Close Encounters of the Third Kind : Sanjay Acharya, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ; Raiders of the Lost Ark : Graph+sas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial : Luke Rauscher, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons ; Hook : Logo du film, domaine public, via Wikimedia Commons ; Jurassic Park : Nick Nguyen, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons ; Schindler's List : Adrian Grycuk, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl, via Wikimedia Commons ; Saving Private Ryan : Topi Pigula, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ; Minority Report : Urko Dorronsoro, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons ; War of the Worlds : MacMoreno, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ; Memento : Logo du film, domaine public, via Wikimedia Commons ; Batman Begins : Prayitno, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons ; The Prestige : Dickenson V. Alley, domaine public, via Wikimedia Commons ; The Dark Knight : PantheraLeo1359531, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ; Inception : Logo du film, domaine public, via Wikimedia Commons ; The Dark Knight Rises : Rodsvilaca, domaine public, via Wikimedia Commons ; Interstellar : O. James, E. von Tunzelmann, P. Franklin, K. S. Thorne, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons ; Dunkirk : Logo du film, domaine public, via Wikimedia Commons ; Tenet : Logo du film, domaine public, via Wikimedia Commons ; Oppenheimer : Logo du film, domaine public, via Wikimedia Commons