The Directors Guild of America, whose awards contenders usually are a close match for the Oscar directing field, has nominated Nolan three times, for "Memento," ''The Dark Knight" and "Inception."
Hathaway thinks it's a huge oversight that Oscar voters have yet to follow suit but that "it's probably just a matter of time" before Nolan wins his Oscar. "I hope it happens with this one," she said.
Nolan's not fretting over his Oscar prospects, though. He knows it's a different kind of film — smaller, more intimate drama — that usually dominates at the awards. He's actually quite pleased at how his movies have fared during Oscar season.
"The academy's been incredibly good to me and my films, and it would be churlish of me to complain," Nolan said. "Really, we've been honored by the academy in more kinds of different ways, and very importantly to me, Heath Ledger winning the best supporting-actor Oscar. These are things that mean a lot to me."
Still, wouldn't it mean more to win that directing Oscar himself?
"That would be terrific, but at the end of the day, they owe Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock a lot more than me, you know what I mean?" Nolan said, citing two Hollywood greats who never won the directing prize. "It's kind of like, get in line."
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