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Wrote the screenplays for Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy and Man of Steel, reshaping how mainstream superhero films were taken seriously, after earlier writing the Blade trilogy. He created the television adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation and has directed four films of his own. He won a Saturn Award for Batman Begins and has been nominated for four Hugo Awards for his written science fiction.