Cillian Murphy presents Christopher Nolan with BFI Fellowship

Murphy hailed Nolan’s films as “unique, boundary-pushing, singular, provocative, ambitious and unforgettable”
Cillian Murphy presents Christopher Nolan with BFI Fellowship

Christopher Nolan and wife Emma Thomas (James Manning/PA)

Director Christopher Nolan said “this means the world to me” as he was presented with the British Film Institute (BFI) Fellowship by his Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy.

The honour was given to the British filmmaker, who is widely tipped to win an Oscar and a Bafta for his epic about J Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist described as the father of the atomic bomb, at the annual BFI chairman’s dinner.

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