Christopher Nolan wrote the screenplay for Interstellar.
Christopher Nolan . He found further popular and critical success with The Dark Knight Trilogy ( 2005 -- 2012 ) ; Inception ( 2010 ) , for which he received a second Original Screenplay nomination and one for the Academy Award for Best Picture ; and Interstellar ( 2014 ) . Interstellar (film) . Interstellar is a 2014 British-American epic science fiction film directed , co-written , and co-produced by Christopher Nolan .