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The Dark Knight

Why so serious?

★ ["Academy Award Best Supporting Actor (Heath Ledger, posthumous)","Academy Award Best Film Editing","AFI Top 10 Films of the Year","Total Film Greatest Film of All Time (2019)"]

About

The Dark Knight (2008) is Christopher Nolan's landmark superhero crime film — widely considered the greatest superhero film ever made. Christian Bale returns as Bruce Wayne/Batman, with Heath Ledger delivering a career-defining, Oscar-winning performance as The Joker. The film grossed over $1 billion worldwide and is one of only a handful of superhero films to receive the Academy Award for acting.

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The Dark Knight

Credits & Contributors (6)

Credits showing ✓ are confirmed by both the project owner and the credited creator.

Cast & Performance
Christian Bale Heath Ledger IMAX
Direction
Christopher Nolan
Music
Hans Zimmer Hans Zimmer
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures

Cast & Performance

Christian Bale
Christian Bale ✓ Verified Bruce Wayne / Batman

Christian Bale's psychologically complex Bruce Wayne grounds The Dark Knight — his performance of a man at war with himself anchors Nolan's operatic vision.

Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger ✓ Verified The Joker

Heath Ledger's Oscar-winning Joker (posthumous) is one of cinema's greatest performances — an anarchic, terrifying force of chaos that redefined villain acting.

IMAX
IMAX ✓ Verified Presenter

Direction

Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan ✓ Verified Director & Co-Writer

Christopher Nolan co-wrote and directed The Dark Knight — redefining what a superhero film could be and producing one of cinema's great crime epics.

Music

Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer ✓ Verified Composer

Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard composed The Dark Knight score — Zimmer's iconic two-note Joker motif is one of cinema's most recognisable sounds.

Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer ✓ Verified Composer

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures
Warner Bros. Pictures ✓ Verified Studio & Distributor

Warner Bros produced and distributed The Dark Knight — the first superhero film to cross $1 billion worldwide.