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Yup, awards season is upon us! And with that in mind, Warner Bros. Pictures recently launched their “For Your Consideration 2012″ campaign for the spellbinding conclusion to Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, ‘The Dark Knight Rises.’ Some of the key categories that the studio are pushing for awards recognition include: Best Picture, Best Director (Christopher Nolan), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor (Christian Bale), Best Actress (Anne Hathaway), Best Supporting Actor (Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Morgan Freeman), Best Supporting Actress (Marion Cotillard), Best Cinematography (Wally Pfister) and Best Original Score (Hans Zimmer). The nominations for the 85th Academy Awards will be announced on January 10th, while the Golden Globe nominations will be announced on December 13th. ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital Download from December 3rd in the UK and December 4th in the US. Fingers crossed the following two “For Your Consideration” posters find their way online in hi-res form shortly.

’The Dark Knight Rises’ sees Christian Bale returning to the dual role of Bruce Wayne and Batman alongside series regulars Commissioner Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman), Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), and Alfred (Michael Caine). Newcomers to Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy include Tom Hardy’s Bane, Anne Hathaway’s Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s John Blake, Marion Cotillard’s Miranda Tate, Matthew Modine’s Foley, and Ben Mendelsohn’s Daggett.  The story for ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ is set eight years after Batman took the fall for Two Face’s crimes in ‘The Dark Knight.’ It sees the Caped Crusader resurface to protect a city that brands him an enemy as a new terrorist leader, Bane, overwhelms Gotham’s finest. Christopher Nolan’s conclusion to his Dark Knight trilogy is currently the 7th highest grossing movie of all time at the worldwide box office with earnings of $1,080.8 billion. The film is also the 7th highest grossing film of all time in the United States with $447.9 million earned.

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With next week welcoming the home video release of ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ director Christopher Nolan caught up with Film Comment to speak on the finale to his Dark Knight trilogy and the monumental series as a whole. On the topic of the “realistic” tone of the series, where it’s set in a world that Batman is plausible and not particularly stylized or exaggerated - compared to most comic-book-derived movies, the filmmaker said:

“The term “realism” is often confusing and used sort of arbitrarily. I suppose “relatable” is the word I would use. I wanted a world that was realistically portrayed, in that even though outlandish events may be taking place, and this extraordinary figure may be walking around these streets, the streets would have the same weight and validity of the streets in any other action movie. So they’d be relatable in that way. And so the more texturing and layering that we could get into this film, the more tactile it was, the more you would feel and be excited by the action. So just on a technical level, I really wanted to take on this idea of what I call the tactile quality. You want to really understand what things would smell like in this world, what things would taste like, when bones start being crunched or cars start pancaking. You feel these things in a way because the world isn’t intensely artificial and created by computer graphics, which result in an anodyne, sterile quality that’s not as exciting. For me that was about making the character more special. If I can believe in that world because I recognize it and can imagine myself walking down that street, then when this extraordinary figure of Batman comes swooping down in this theatrical costume and presenting this very theatrical aspect, that’s going to be more exciting to me.”

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