Film 04 / 13 · Directed by Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins (2005)
Batman Begins is Christopher Nolan's 2005 reboot of the Batman films and the first part of his Dark Knight trilogy. Christian Bale plays Bruce Wayne, who returns to Gotham after years abroad to fight crime as Batman. It was nominated for the Oscar for Best Cinematography and set the grounded tone of the two films that followed.
After his parents are murdered in front of him, young Bruce Wayne grows up angry and leaves Gotham to understand the criminals he hates.
Trained by a secretive group in the mountains of Asia, he comes home, builds a new identity with the help of his butler Alfred and a quiet Wayne Enterprises scientist, and takes on the men who run the city.
Ratings
As of 11 November 2026- IMDb8.2/101.8M votesTop 250 · #138
- Rotten Tomatoes85%Tomatometer · 283 reviewsPopcornmeter 94%
- Metacritic70/100Metascore · 41 reviews
- Letterboxd3.85/5Average rating
- Kinopoisk7.9/10413.2K votes
Editor's score
Lars Ziegler · 6 November 20267.9/ 10Average of seven craft categories, each out of 10.
| Screenplay | 8 |
|---|---|
| Direction | 8 |
| Acting | 8 |
| Cinematography | 8 |
| Sound & music | 8 |
| Editing | 7 |
| Design | 8 |
How the ranking adds up
Total 67.8 / 100Facts
- World premiere
Tokyo- Release (US)
- Runtime
- 140 min
- Genres
- Drama · Crime · Action
- Based on
- DC Comics characters
- Studios
- Warner Bros. Pictures, Syncopy, Patalex III Productions
- Distributor
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Budget
- $150 million
- Box office
- $375.6 million worldwide
$206.9 million domestic · $168.7 million international
Incl. re-releases · Box Office Mojo, 11 November 2026
Awards
Wikipedia, 11 November 2026| Ceremony | Won | Nominated |
|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards | 0 | 1 |
| BAFTA | 0 | 3 |
| Golden Globes | 0 | 0 |
Cast
Billing order- 01Christian BaleBruce Wayne / Batman
- 02Michael CaineAlfred
- 03Liam NeesonDucard
- 04Katie HolmesRachel Dawes
- 05Gary OldmanJim Gordon
- 06Cillian MurphyDr. Jonathan Crane
- 07Tom WilkinsonCarmine Falcone
- 08Rutger HauerEarle
- 09Ken WatanabeRa's al Ghul
- 10Morgan FreemanLucius Fox
Key crew
- Director
- Christopher Nolan
- Screenplay
- Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer
- Producers
- Charles Roven, Emma Thomas, Larry Franco
- Cinematography
- Wally Pfister
- Editing
- Lee Smith
- Music
- Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard
- Production design
- Nathan Crowley
Production notes
- 01
The Narrows, Gotham's poorest district, was built as a full-size street set inside a former airship hangar at Cardington in Bedfordshire.
- 02
Cillian Murphy screen-tested for Batman. Nolan showed the test to Warner Bros. to win him the part of the Scarecrow instead.
- 03
Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard wrote the score together. It was the first of six films Zimmer scored for Nolan.