Inception is a 2010 science fiction action heist film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film features an international ensemble cast starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Dileep Rao, Tom Berenger, and Michael Caine. DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a specialized corporate spy and thief. His work consists of secretly extracting valuable commercial information from the unconscious minds of his targets while they are asleep and dreaming. Wanted for murder and unable to visit his children, Cobb is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the planting of an original idea into a target's subconscious.
Development began roughly nine years before Inception was released. In 2001, Nolan wrote an 80-page treatment about dream-stealers, presenting the idea to Warner Bros. The story was originally envisioned as a horror film inspired by concepts of lucid dreaming and dream incubation. Feeling he needed to have more experience with large-scale films, Nolan opted to work on Batman Begins (2005), The Prestige (2006), and The Dark
| Directed by: | Christopher Nolan |
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| Written by: | Christopher Nolan |
| Release date: | 08 July 2010 |
| Genre: | Psychological thriller, Mystery, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction, Adventure |
| Country: | United States of America, United Kingdom |
| Language: | English Language, French Language, Japanese Language |
• Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick won Sound Mixing at the Academy Awards
• Chris Corbould, Pete Bebb, Paul Franklin and Andrew Lockley won Visual Effects at the Academy Awards
• Wally Pfister won Best Cinematography at the Academy Awards