Tenet (film)

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Tenet
Tenet movie poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byChristopher Nolan
Written byChristopher Nolan
Produced by
  • Emma Thomas
  • Christopher Nolan
Starring
  • John David Washington
  • Robert Pattinson
  • Elizabeth Debicki
  • Dimple Kapadia
  • Michael Caine
  • Kenneth Branagh
CinematographyHoyte van Hoytema
Edited byJennifer Lame
Music byLudwig Göransson
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • August 26, 2020 (2020-08-26) (United Kingdom)
  • September 3, 2020 (2020-09-03) (United States)
Running time
150 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$200 million
Box office$363.7 million

Tenet is a 2020 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who produced it with Emma Thomas. A co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States, it stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. The film follows a secret agent who learns to manipulate the flow of time to prevent an attack from the future that threatens to annihilate the present world. Nolan continued his relationship with Warner Bros. and Syncopy for both the production and the distribution of the film.

Nolan took more than five years to write the screenplay after deliberating about Tenet's central ideas for over a decade. Pre-production began in late 2018, casting took place in March 2019, and principal photography lasted six months, from May to November, in Denmark, Estonia, India, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema shot on 65 mm film and IMAX. Over one hundred vessels and thousands of extras were used.

Delayed three times because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tenet was released in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2020, and United States on September 3, 2020, in IMAX, 35 mm, and 70 mm. It was the first Hollywood tent-pole to open in theaters after the pandemic shutdown, and grossed $363 million worldwide, making it the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2020. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics and won Best Visual Effects at the 93rd Academy Awards where it was also nominated for Best Production Design.

Plot[]

A CIA agent, the "Protagonist", participates in an extraction operation at the Kyiv opera house. After seizing an artifact, the Protagonist is captured by mercenaries. He is tortured before consuming a suicide pill. He awakens to learn the suicide pill was a test of loyalty and that the artifact was lost.

The Protagonist is recruited by an organization called Tenet. A scientist briefs him on bullets with "inverted" entropy, meaning they move backward through time. The Protagonist meets his handler, Neil, through a CIA contact, and they trace the inverted bullets to arms dealer Priya Singh in Mumbai, India. They learn that Priya is a member of Tenet, and her cartridges were purchased and inverted by Russian oligarch Andrei Sator.

The Protagonist approaches Sator's estranged wife Kat, an art appraiser who falsely authenticated a forged Goya drawing. She tells him that Sator purchased the drawing from the forger, Arepo, and is using Kat's authentication as blackmail to control her in their relationship. The Protagonist and Neil plot to steal the drawing from Rotas freeport storage facility at the Oslo Airport. There they fend off two masked men who emerge from a device. Afterward, Priya explains that the device is a turnstile, a machine that can invert the entropy of objects and people, and that the masked men were the same person traveling in opposite directions through time.

On the Amalfi Coast in Italy, Kat introduces the Protagonist to Sator, and learns the drawing is intact. Sator plans to kill the Protagonist, but the Protagonist saves Sator's life after Kat attempts to drown him. Sator and the Protagonist strike a partnership to retrieve a case supposedly containing plutonium-241. In Tallinn, the Protagonist and Neil ambush a convoy and steal the case, which actually contains the artifact lost in Kyiv. They are ambushed by an inverted Sator holding Kat hostage. The Protagonist gives an empty case to Sator, who retreats after receiving it. The Protagonist rescues Kat but is soon captured and taken to a warehouse with a turnstile.

In the warehouse, the inverted Sator shoots Kat with an inverted round, while he demands the location of the artifact. Tenet operatives led by Ives arrive and rescue the Protagonist while Sator escapes into the turnstile. The group takes Kat through the turnstile to aid healing her inverted wound. The now-inverted Protagonist travels back in time to the ambush site, where he unsuccessfully attempts to retrieve the artifact, but Sator has gotten hold of it. The Protagonist's car is overturned and set on fire by Sator, but Neil saves him.

Sator square, providing the film title, location of the opening sequence (Kyiv Opera), and character or firm names (A. Sator; Arepo the Goya forger; and Rotas Security in Oslo Freeport)

The Protagonist, Neil, and Kat travel back in time to the freeport in Oslo. The Protagonist fights his past self, enters the turnstile, and reverts, followed by Neil and Kat. Later, Priya explains that Sator is collecting the artifacts to assemble an "algorithm" which can catastrophically invert the entropy of the Earth.

Kat reveals Sator is dying from cancer. They think that Sator is using a dead man's switch to send the location of the algorithm into the future. Kat believes Sator will travel back in time to commit suicide during their vacation in Vietnam. The Protagonist, Neil, Kat, and Tenet troops travel back in time to that day, where Kat poses as her past self to keep Sator alive long enough for Tenet to secure the algorithm. Tenet tracks the algorithm to Sator's hometown, Stalsk-12, where it is heavily guarded. They launch a "temporal pincer movement", with non-inverted and inverted troops making a simultaneous assault. Sator reveals people in the future want him to find and gather the algorithm pieces in the hopes of reversing the effects of climate change. An inverted soldier wearing a red trinket sacrifices himself to save the Protagonist and Ives as they secure the algorithm. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, Kat kills Sator, capitalizing on her chance for betrayal.

The Protagonist, Neil, and Ives break up the algorithm and part ways. The Protagonist notices that Neil is wearing the red trinket. Neil reveals he was recruited by the Protagonist in Neil's past. Since Kat knows too much, Priya attempts to have her assassinated, but Priya is killed by the Protagonist, who has concluded that he is the mastermind behind Tenet.

Cast[]

Production[]

Pre-production[]

Writer and director Christopher Nolan conceived the ideas behind Tenet over the course of twenty years,[17] but began working on the script in 2014.[18] Nolan continued his relationship with Warner Brothers and Syncopy for both the production and the distribution of the film on an estimated budget of $200 million.[19] The title is a palindrome and an allusion to the Sator Square.[20][21] Nolan made a conscious effort to abstain from any influence of the spy genre other than his own memory.[22] Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, who worked with Nolan on Interstellar (2014), was consulted on the subjects of time and quantum physics.[23] Shree Vardhan Tower was chosen instead of initial plans to use the Antilia, as the latter had too high security; the National Liberal Club took the place of Sotheby's, whose management refused to participate; and they chose Cannon Hall after Thornhill Primary School in Islington and Channing School had been deemed unsatisfactory.[24] Prop prototypes were often 3D printed. Costume designer Jeffrey Kurland and his team cut and stitched the clothing in the United States, manufacturing it for the main cast and thousands more.[25]

Writing[]

Nolan began writing the script in 2014 and the film Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) inspired the screenwriting.[17] The film's scientific accuracy in writing revolves around reversing the entropy of things and people, resulting in time reversibility.[26] Tenet refers to physics concepts including annihilation,[27][28] the second law of thermodynamics, Maxwell's demon, the grandfather paradox, and Feynman and Wheeler's Absorber Theory, but Nolan stated in the film's press notes: "we're not going to make any case for this being scientifically accurate".[26] In commenting on the scientific aspects of writing the script, Nolan stated: ""I think the scientific method is the best tool we have for analysing and understanding the world around us ... I've been very inspired by working with great scientists like Kip Thorne, who I worked with on Interstellar, who also helped me out with some early analysis of the ideas I wanted to explore to do with time and quantum physics on Tenet, although I promised him I wasn't going to bandy his name around as if there was some kind of scientific reality to Tenet. It's a very different kettle of fish to Interstellar."[23]

Casting[]

Washington, Pattinson, and Debicki were cast in March 2019.[29][30] Each of them was only permitted to read the screenplay while locked in a room.[7][17][31] Nolan chose Washington for his performance in BlacKkKlansman (2018).[32] Washington kept diaries in which he would expand the Protagonist's backstory.[33] Pattinson based his character's mannerisms on those of political journalist and author Christopher Hitchens.[34] While Kat was originally going to be an older woman, Debicki's appearance in Widows (2018) convinced the filmmakers otherwise.[2] The casting of Dimple Kapadia, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Clémence Poésy, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh was announced as filming started.[35] Kapadia's screen test was put together by director Homi Adajania while working on his 2020 film Angrezi Medium.[36] Caine was merely given his pages for one day of work.[37] Branagh rescheduled production on his own directorial venture Death on the Nile (2022) to do the part, claiming to have studied the manuscript more times than any other in his career.[38] Himesh Patel joined in August.[39] Martin Donovan was revealed in the first trailer.[40]

Set design and special effects[]

Special effects supervisor Scott R. Fisher watched World War II movies and documentaries to find reference points for realism.[41] Production designer Nathan Crowley requested Hamilton Watch Company to manufacture around thirty military wristwatches, each analog with a digital countdown.[42] Nolan and Crowley traveled to scout for locations in February and April 2019.[citation needed] Disappointed with the Royal Swedish Opera as a potential spot for the Kyiv Opera House,[citation needed] Crowley switched it to the Linnahall, which fit his affinity for Brutalist architecture.[43]

Filming[]

Principal photography, involving a crew which Pattinson estimated at 500 people,[34] began in May 22, 2019[35][44] on a soundstage in Los Angeles[45] and took place in seven countries[44]—Denmark, Estonia,[nb 1] India,[nb 2] Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States.[48][nb 3] Filming in Estonia happened in June and July, with the Linnahall, Pärnu Highway (E67), and adjacent streets closed to facilitate it.[49][50] Kumu Art Museum doubled as the fictional "Oslo freeport".[51] Barbara's office was built in a former law court, the Tallinn Freeport exterior was at the city docks, and a room at the Hilton Tallinn Park Hotel was also utilized.[52] Mayor Mihhail Kõlvart expressed concerns about potential disruptions as the shooting schedule required that the arterial Laagna Road be closed for one month.[53] A compromise was eventually reached, involving temporary road closures and detours.[54][55]

Scenes were shot on the Amalfi Coast (Italy) and Cannon Hall (England) from July to August,[56][57] on the roof of the Oslo Opera House, at The Thief hotel (Norway), and in Rødbyhavn at Nysted Wind Farm (Denmark) in early September.[51][58][59] A five-day shoot occurred later that month in Mumbai,[48] specifically Breach Candy Hospital, Cafe Mondegar, Colaba Causeway, Colaba Market, Gateway of India, Grant Road, Royal Bombay Yacht Club, and the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.[60][61][62][63] A restaurant named "Chaand" was erected near the hotel,[61] but never used, serving only as an alternative.[48] Forty boats were positioned at the Gateway of India, where the crew rescued a man who had attempted suicide.[64] They proceeded to Los Angeles soon after where Hawthorne Plaza Shopping Center functioned as the interior set of an icebreaker and a shipping container.[65] The Victorville Airport was disguised as Oslo, with more than ninety extras involved.[17] Instead of using miniatures and visual effects (VFX) for the plane crash sequence, Nolan determined that purchasing a Boeing 747 proved more cost-effective.[66] In October, filming moved to Eagle Mountain, where an abandoned town had been constructed and hundreds were clothed in military camouflage uniforms.[7] Over thirty buildings were prefabricated in Los Angeles and shipped to the site. Four Boeing CH-47 Chinooks were loaned out for four days.[citation needed] Outside shots of a tunnel were done in the desert, while the cavernous insides of the Hypocenter were fashioned on Warner soundstage 16, their largest with 32,130 square feet.[67] Tenet wrapped on November 12th, after 96 days of shooting.[68][69][unreliable source?]

Director of photography Hoyte van Hoytema employed a combination of 65 mm film[citation needed] and IMAX,[70] prioritizing Panavision lenses that would best accommodate lower light.[41] Segments that concerned time inversion were captured both in backward and forward mobility and speech.[71][72] To ensure proficiency in handling firearms, Washington and Pattinson attended the Taran Tactical firing range in Simi Valley. They also did some of their own stunts. Over one hundred watercraft were recruited, together with two F50 catamarans,[citation needed] the megayacht Planet Nine (onto which a Mi-8 helicopter would land), icebreakers, speed- and fishing boats, and a cargo tanker.[73] The windfarm vessel Iceni Revenge was brought through Denmark, Estonia, and Italy for all three months.[74][7]

Post-production[]

Jennifer Lame replaced Nolan's long-time editor Lee Smith, who was occupied with 2019's 1917.[75] DNEG supervisor Andy Lockley spoke of the many VFX shots used in the film as involving the participation of 300 employees at DNEG in order to accomplish.[17][76] Sound designer Richard King sent a team to Eagle Mountain to record the Chinooks and Mi-8, and to Southampton for the F50 catamarans.[77] Others were hired for the aural atmosphere of Oslo, Mumbai, and Tallinn.[77] King got the audio of both live and blank automatic weapon rounds at a gun range in San Francisquito Canyon and rented a runway to test how the vehicles sounded.[78]

Music[]

See also: Tenet: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Ludwig Göransson was chosen as the composer after Nolan's frequent collaborator and first choice, Hans Zimmer, turned down the offer in favor of the 2021 film Dune.[79][80] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Göransson recorded musicians at their homes.[7] Researching retrograde composition led him to generate melodies that would sound the same forward and backward. He experimented with distorted industrial noise and, to represent Sator's irradiated breathing, asked Nolan to tape his own in a studio. Göransson produced ten to fifteen minutes of music each week. The first scoring session was held in November 2019, continuing into early 2020.[81] The Tenet soundtrack contains "The Plan," a song by Travis Scott,[82] which plays over the film's closing credits.[83]

Release[]

Theatrical[]

Warner Bros. originally scheduled Tenet for a July 17, 2020, release in IMAX, 35 mm, and 70 mm film.[84] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was first delayed to July 31,[85][86] and subsequently August 12.[87] Warner Bros. arranged the film to be released internationally on August 26 in seventy countries world-wide with a run time of 150 minutes.[88][89][90] Preview screenings commenced in Australia and South Korea on August 22 and 23.[91][92] It moved to select cities in the United States on September 3, gradually expanding in the ensuing weeks.[88] On September 4, it came out in China.[93] Tenet became the first Hollywood tent-pole to launch in theaters following their prolonged shutdown.[94] The lack of available movies afforded it more screens per multiplex than would otherwise be possible.[95] On March 2, 2021, Warner Bros. announced that in light of the New York state government allowing movie theaters in New York City to re-open the following Friday (March 5) following a nearly year-long shutdown (causing theaters in the city to miss out on the film's initial theatrical run), they would be re-releasing Tenet at select theaters in the city that same day.[96]

Marketing and promotion[]

Initial marketing and the promotion of the film was significantly hampered due to postponements caused by the COVID-19 pandemic with executives calculating that each postponement cost Warner Bros. between $200,000 and $400,000 in marketing fees.[97] Eventually, after briefly being held up indefinitely,[98] Glenn Whipp of the Los Angeles Times noted that Warner Bros. did not put Tenet on the Academy's streaming platform or send out screeners to awards voters.[99]

Given the large investment in the film, part of the marketing campaign for the film involved dual promotions with the watch manufacturer Hamilton and the game site promotion firm Fortnite, both of whom assisted in increasing public awareness of the forthcoming film. Hamilton featured Washington wearing the watch and endorsing it in multiple ad campaigns, while Fortnite worked on the pre-release trailer for the film and created an interview with Washington which was featured in multiple game websites on the net.[100]

Home media[]

Tenet was released on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD, and digital download on December 15, 2020.[101] Tenet was added to HBO Max on May 1, 2021.[102]

Reception[]

Box office[]

Tenet grossed $58.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $305.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $363.7 million.[103][104] With a production budget of $200 million,[105] Tenet is Nolan's most expensive original project.[106] IndieWire speculated that the marketing pushed the final sum to $300–350 million,[107] though analysts predicted lower advertising costs than usual, owing to inexpensive live sports ads.[108] Box office analyst Jeff Bock estimated it would need to make $400–500 million in order to break even.[109] In November 2020, rival studios expected the film to lose up to $100 million, but Warner Bros. insisted losses would not top $50 million.[110] Nolan was reported to receive twenty percent of the first-dollar gross.[111]

Tenet was projected to take $25–30 million internationally over its first five days.[112] In South Korea, pre-sale IMAX tickets sold out and weekend previews totaled $717,000 from 590 venues.[92] Another four days there yielded $4.13 million from about 2,200 screens, bringing the cume to $5.1 million by the end of the week. The film debuted to $53 million in forty-one countries, grossing $7.1 million in the United Kingdom, $6.7 million in France, and $4.2 million in Germany.[19][113][114] Tenet made $58.1 million in its second weekend, with China ($30 million from first showings), the U.K. ($13.1 million), France ($10.7 million), Germany ($8.7 million), and South Korea ($8.2 million) as its largest markets.[115] Its third weekend garnered $30.6 million, comprising $16.4 million from the U.K., $13.2 million from France, $11.4 million from Germany, $10.3 million from South Korea, and $10.2 million from China.[116] Two weeks in Japan accumulated $11.4 million.[117] Tenet opened in India on December 4, 2020,[118] and made about $1.2 million in the first ten days.[119] Tenet became the highest-grossing film of all time in Estonia, with a total gross of $1.2 million.[120]

With 65% of American and Canadian theaters operating at 25–40% capacity, the first eleven days acquired $20.2 million from 2,810 theaters; $2.5 million in Canada, $12 million in the U.S., and the rest from previews.[114][121] The second, third, and fourth weekends added $6.6 million, $4.6 million, and $3.3 million, respectively.[122][123][124] Tenet remained atop the box office in its fifth weekend with $2.7 million,[125] before ceding to The War with Grandpa in its sixth weekend.[126]

Critical response[]

Tenet divided critics, with USA Today's Jenna Ryu and the Los Angeles Times's Christi Carras respectively describing the reviews as "mixed" and "all over the place".[127][128] The Independent's Clémence Michallon wrote the film was perceived as "both entertaining and 'cerebral' by some, but lacking and confusing by others".[129] Ellise Shafer of Variety found that while some were weary of the film's "metaphysical babble", reviews were "largely positive", with critics overall naming it "a mind-blowing addition to Nolan's already-impressive arsenal".[130] On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 69% of 364 critics gave Tenet a positive review, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "A visually dazzling puzzle for film lovers to unlock, Tenet serves up all the cerebral spectacle audiences expect from a Christopher Nolan production."[131] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 69 out of 100 based on 50 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[132] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale,[133] and PostTrak reported 80% of those gave the film a positive score, with 65% saying they would recommend it.[122]

Guy Lodge of Variety described Tenet as a "grandly entertaining, time-slipping spectacle."[2] The Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw felt it was both "madly preposterous" and "amazing cinema".[134] Kevin Maher of The Times awarded the film a full five stars, deeming it "a delightfully convoluted masterpiece."[135] Robbie Collin of The Telegraph likened it to Nolan's Inception and praised the "depth, subtlety and wit of Pattinson and Debicki's performances."[6] In his review for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers described the film as "pure, ravishing cinema" and called Washington a "star-in-the-making" who "brings a natural athletic grace to the stunts and hand-to-hand combat".[136] The Dispatch's Alec Dent found Tenet to be "a gloriously innovative storyline with incredible visuals to match".[137] Mark Daniell of the Toronto Sun gave the film four out of four stars, deeming it "the cinematic equivalent of a Rubik's Cube".[138] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it 3+1⁄2 out of 4 stars, praising Debicki's "mesmerizing" portrayal and concluding that "it's the kind of film that reminds us of the magic of the moviegoing experience" despite not reaching "cinematic greatness".[139] Keith Phillips of The Ringer wrote that Tenet has the makings of a cult film caused by "a failed release due to the pandemic, a muted critical reception, and a twisty narrative that demands multiple viewings".[140] Director Denis Villeneuve called the film "a masterpiece" and "an incredible cinematic achievement."[141]

James Berardinelli noted that the film "may be the most challenging of Nolan's films to date" in terms of "the concepts forming the narrative's foundation: backwards-moving entropy, non-linear thinking, temporal paradoxes" but questioned whether its runtime "might prove to be problematic."[142] Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter felt that Washington was "dashing but a little dull" and that Debicki's performance "adds a color to Nolan's palette, and [she] has persuasive chemistry with Branagh in their joint portrait of a violent, dysfunctional love-hate relationship". She concluded that Tenet is "rich in audacity and originality, but ... lacking as it is in a certain humanity."[13] Jessica Kiang of The New York Times described it as Nolan's "time-bending" take on James Bond, praising the film's cinematography, score, editing, acting and "immaculately creaseless costumes", while also deeming it a "hugely expensive, blissfully empty spectacle".[143] LA Weekly's Asher Luberto also highlighted the similarities between Tenet and the James Bond films, but also felt it was "a daring, surprising and entirely original piece of work, reverent in its spectacle and haunting in its mesmerizing, dreamlike form."[144] Branagh's character was described by some critics as a stereotypical Russian villain.[145][146] Christina Newland of New York called Branagh "silly-accented ... as a Bond-villain-esque Russian mastermind."[147]

Mike McCahill of IndieWire gave it a "C-" grade and called it "a humorless disappointment".[148] Brian Lloyd of Entertainment.ie highlighted the poor sound mixing on 35 mm movie film "often" rendered dialog inaudible but suggested that viewing the film on Digital Cinema Package files reduced the problem.[149] Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune awarded the film two out of four stars, writing that he wished the film "exploited its own ideas more dynamically."[150] The New York Post's Johnny Oleksinski also gave it two out of four stars, calling it Nolan's most "confusing" work so far, but acknowledged being "swept up by Nolan's incomparable cinematic vision.[151] Kathleen Sachs of the Chicago Reader gave it 1+1⁄2 out of 4 stars, concluding that Nolan "doesn't show much growth in his most recent self-indulgent work."[152] The San Francisco Chronicle's Mick LaSalle found Tenet difficult to understand, but even worse, it inspires little desire to understand it."[153]

Accolades[]

Ceremonies Date of ceremony Categories Recipients/nominees Results Ref.
Academy Awards 2021 Best Production Design Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas Nominated [154]
Best Visual Effects Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley, and Scott Fisher Won
Art Directors Guild Awards 2021 Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film Nathan Crowley Won [155]
[156]
British Academy Film Awards 2021 Best Special Visual Effects Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson, and Andrew Lockley Won [157]
Critics' Choice Awards 2021 Best Cinematography Hoyte van Hoytema Nominated [158]
[159]
Best Editing Jennifer Lame Nominated
Best Production Design Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas Nominated
Best Score Ludwig Göransson Nominated
Best Visual Effects Tenet Won
Critics' Choice Super Awards 2021 Best Action Movie Nominated [160]
Best Actor in an Action Movie John David Washington Nominated
Chinese American Film Festival 2020 Golden Angel Award for Most Popular U.S. Film in China Tenet Won [161]
Golden Globe Awards 2021 Best Original Score Ludwig Göransson Nominated [162]
Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2021 Best Original Score in a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film Won [163]
Best Original Song in a Feature Film "The Plan" – Jacques Webster II, Ebony Naomi Oshunrinde, and Ludwig Göransson Nominated
Hugo Awards 2021 Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Christopher Nolan Nominated [164]
Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards 2021 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley for Feature Film Richard King, Joseph Fraioli, Mark Larry, Michael W. Mitchell, Angela Ang, Bruce Tanis, John Cucci, Catherine Harper, Alyson Dee Moore, Chris Moriana, Dan O'Connell, Shelley Roden, John Roesch, and Katie Rose Nominated [165]
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Underscore Alex Gibson and Nicholas Fitzgerald Won
People's Choice Awards 2020 Favorite Action Movie Tenet Nominated [166]
Favorite Action Movie Star John David Washington Nominated
Satellite Awards 2021 Best Motion Picture – Drama Tenet Nominated [167]
Best Cinematography Hoyte van Hoytema Nominated
Best Original Score Ludwig Göransson Nominated
Best Sound (Editing and Mixing) Willie D. Burton, Richard King, Kevin O'Connell, and Gary A. Rizzo Nominated
Best Visual Effects Andrew Jackson Won
Saturn Awards 2021 Best Science Fiction Film Tenet Nominated [168]
Best Director Christopher Nolan Nominated
Best Writing Nominated
Best Actor John David Washington Won
Best Supporting Actor Robert Pattinson Nominated
Best Editing Jennifer Lame Nominated
Best Music Ludwig Göransson Nominated
Best Production Design Nathan Crowley Nominated
Best Special / Visual Effects Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley, Scott R. Fisher, and Mike Chambers Nominated
Set Decorators Society of America Awards 2021 Best Achievement in Décor/Design of a Science Fiction or Fantasy Feature Film Kathy Lucas and Nathan Crowley Won [169]
Visual Effects Society Awards 2021 Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature Andrew Jackson, Mike Chambers, Andrew Lockley, David Lee, and Scott Fisher Nominated [170]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Seven weeks of filming in Estonia came at a cost of €16.5 million;[7][46] Warner Bros. Pictures paid a rebate that was reimbursed at thirty percent.[46]
  2. ^ It took one week to secure the permission to shoot in Mumbai.[47] The planned schedule was completed in half the time.[48]
  3. ^ Tenet went under the working title Merry Go Round.[17][47]

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Further reading[]

  • Belluomini, L. (2020). "Tenet as Philosophy: Fatalism Isn't an Excuse to Do Nothing". In Johnson D. K. (ed.). The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97134-6_99-1. ISBN 978-3-319-97134-6. S2CID 230597057.

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