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{{Infobox film
| name                  = Tenet
| image                = Tenet movie poster.jpg
| caption              = Theatrical release poster
| director              = [[Christopher Nolan]]
| producer              = {{Plainlist|
* [[Emma Thomas]]
* Christopher Nolan
}}
| writer                = Christopher Nolan
| starring              = {{Plainlist|
* [[John David Washington]]
* [[Robert Pattinson]]
* [[Elizabeth Debicki]]
* [[Dimple Kapadia]]
* [[Michael Caine]]
* [[Kenneth Branagh]]
}}
| music                = [[Ludwig Göransson]]
| cinematography      = [[Hoyte van Hoytema]]
| editing              = [[Jennifer Lame]]
| production_companies = {{Plainlist|
* [[Warner Bros. Pictures]]
* [[Syncopy Inc.|Syncopy]]
}}
| distributor          = Warner Bros. Pictures
| released            = {{Film date|2020|8|26|United Kingdom|2020|9|3|United States}}
| runtime              = 150 minutes<ref name="BBFC" />
| country              = {{Plainlist|
* United Kingdom<ref name="BFI" />
* United States<ref name="BFI" />
}}
| language            = English
| budget              = $200{{nbsp}}million<ref name="Rubin-Aug2020" />
| gross                = $363.7{{nbsp}}million<ref name="BOM">{{cite BOM |id=6723592 |title=Tenet |access-date=April 16, 2021 |archive-date=September 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200903152246/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt6723592/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="TheNumbers">{{cite the numbers |id=Tenet-(2020)#tab=box-office |title=Tenet |access-date==April 16, 2021 |archive-date=October 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008174331/https://m.the-numbers.com/movie/Tenet-(2020)#tab=box-office |url-status=live }}</ref>
}}
 
'''''Tenet''''' is a 2020 [[science fiction film|science fiction]] [[action thriller film]] written and directed by [[Christopher Nolan]], who produced it with [[Emma Thomas]]. A co-production between the United Kingdom and United States, it stars [[John David Washington]], [[Robert Pattinson]], [[Elizabeth Debicki]], [[Dimple Kapadia]], [[Michael Caine]], and [[Kenneth Branagh]]. The film follows a secret agent who learns to manipulate the [[Arrow of time|flow of time]] to prevent an attack from the future that threatens to annihilate the present world.
 
Nolan took more than five years to write the screenplay after deliberating about ''Tenet''{{'}}s central ideas for over a decade. Pre-production began in late 2018, casting took place in March 2019, and principal photography lasted six months, from May to November, in Denmark, Estonia, India, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Cinematographer [[Hoyte van Hoytema]] shot on [[65 mm film]] and [[IMAX]]. Over one hundred vessels and thousands of extras were used.
 
Delayed three times because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], ''Tenet'' was released in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2020, and United States on September 3, 2020, in IMAX, [[35 mm movie film|35 mm]], and 70&nbsp;mm. It was the first Hollywood [[Tent-pole (entertainment)|tent-pole]] to [[Wide release|open in theaters]] after the pandemic shutdown, and grossed $363{{nbsp}}million worldwide, making it the [[2020 in film#Highest-grossing films|fifth-highest-grossing film of 2020]]. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and won [[Academy Award for Best Visual Effects|Best Visual Effects]] at the [[93rd Academy Awards]]; it was also nominated for [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Production Design]].
 
== Plot ==
A [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent, the "Protagonist", participates in an extraction operation at the [[National Opera of Ukraine|Kyiv opera house]]. After seizing an artifact, the Protagonist is captured by mercenaries. He is tortured before consuming a [[suicide pill]]. He awakens to learn the suicide pill was a test of loyalty and that the artifact was lost.
 
The Protagonist is recruited by an organization called Tenet. A scientist briefs him on bullets with "inverted" [[entropy]], meaning they move [[T-symmetry|backward through time]]. The Protagonist meets his handler, Neil, through a CIA contact, and they trace the inverted bullets to arms dealer Priya Singh in [[Mumbai]]. They learn that Priya is a member of Tenet, and her cartridges were purchased and inverted by [[Russian oligarch]] Andrei Sator.
 
The Protagonist approaches Sator's estranged wife Kat, an art appraiser who falsely authenticated a forged [[Francisco Goya|Goya]] drawing. She tells him that Sator purchased the drawing from the forger, Arepo, and is using Kat's authentication as blackmail to control her in their relationship. The Protagonist and Neil plot to steal the drawing from a [[Free economic zone|freeport]] storage facility at the [[Oslo Airport, Gardermoen|Oslo Airport]]. There they fend off two masked men who emerge from a device. Afterward, Priya explains that the device is a turnstile, a machine that can invert the entropy of objects and people, and that the masked men were the same person traveling in opposite directions through time.
 
Kat introduces the Protagonist to Sator, and learns the drawing is intact. Sator plans to kill the Protagonist, but the Protagonist saves Sator's life after Kat attempts to drown him. Sator and the Protagonist strike a partnership to retrieve a case supposedly containing [[plutonium-241]]. In [[Tallinn]], the Protagonist and Neil ambush a convoy and steal the case, which actually contains the artifact lost in Kyiv. They are ambushed by an inverted Sator holding Kat hostage. The Protagonist gives an empty case to Sator, who retreats after receiving it. The Protagonist rescues Kat but is soon captured and taken to a warehouse with a turnstile.
 
In the warehouse, the inverted Sator shoots Kat with an inverted round, while he demands the location of the artifact. Tenet operatives led by Ives arrive and rescue the Protagonist while Sator escapes into the turnstile. The group takes Kat through the turnstile to aid healing her inverted wound. The now-inverted Protagonist travels back in time to the ambush site, where he unsuccessfully attempts to retrieve the artifact, Sator has got hold of it. The Protagonist's car is overturned and set on fire by Sator, but Neil saves him.
 
The Protagonist, Neil, and Kat travel back in time to the freeport in Oslo. The Protagonist fights his past self, enters the turnstile, and reverts, followed by Neil and Kat. Later, Priya explains that Sator is collecting the artifacts to assemble an "algorithm" which can catastrophically invert the entropy of the Earth.
 
[[File:Sator_Square_at_Oppède.jpg|thumb|[[Sator square]], providing the film title, location of the opening sequence (Kyiv Opera), and character or firm names (A. Sator; Arepo the Goya forger; and Rotas Security in Oslo Freeport)]]
Kat reveals Sator is dying from [[cancer]]. They think that Sator is using a [[dead man's switch]] to send the location of the algorithm into the future. Kat believes Sator will travel back in time to commit suicide during their vacation in [[Vietnam]]. The Protagonist, Neil, Kat, and Tenet troops travel back in time to that day, where Kat poses as her past self to keep Sator alive long enough for Tenet to secure the algorithm. Tenet tracks the algorithm to Sator's hometown, Stalsk-12, where it is heavily guarded. They launch a "temporal [[pincer movement]]", with non-inverted and inverted troops making a simultaneous assault. Sator reveals people in the future want him to find and gather the algorithm pieces in the hopes of reversing the effects of climate change. An inverted soldier wearing a red trinket sacrifices himself to save the Protagonist and Ives as they attempt to secure the algorithm. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, Kat kills Sator, hoping the Tenet team is able to secure the algorithm.
 
The Protagonist, Neil, and Ives break up the algorithm and part ways. The Protagonist notices that Neil is wearing the red trinket. Neil reveals he was recruited by the Protagonist in Neil's past. Since Kat knows too much, Priya attempts to have her assassinated, but Priya is killed by the Protagonist, who has concluded that he is the mastermind behind Tenet.
 
===Scientific accuracy===
 
The film's plot revolves around reversing the [[entropy]] of things and people, resulting in [[time reversibility]].<ref name="EMILY ZEMLER" /> ''Tenet'' makes reference to physics concepts including [[annihilation]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/tenet-science-explained-entropy-time-inversion-annihilation/|title=The Science of Tenet Explained: Entropy, Annihilation & Time Inversion|author=Shaw-Williams, Hannah|access-date=2021-04-16|date=2020-09-05|publisher=[[ScreenRant]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/fml.html#3t10:0|publisher=Caltech University|title=Feynman Messenger Lecture #3 - The Great Conversation Principles|author=Feynman, Richard|access-date=2021-04-16}}</ref> the [[second law of thermodynamics]], [[Maxwell's demon]], and [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] and [[John Archibald Wheeler|Wheeler]]'s notion of a  [[one-electron universe]], but Christopher Nolan stated in the film's press notes: "we're not going to make any case for this being scientifically accurate".<ref name="EMILY ZEMLER">[https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020-09-04/science-christopher-nolan-tenet-physicist-interview How real is the science in Christopher Nolan's ''Tenet''? We asked an expert] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' EMILY ZEMLER, 2020-09-04</ref>
 
== Cast ==
<!-- The cast order is based on onscreen tombstone closing credits, roles per closing credits scroll -->
{{cast list|
* [[John David Washington]] as the Protagonist, a CIA agent<ref name="Schaeffer-May2020" /><ref name="Lodge-Aug2020" />
* [[Robert Pattinson]] as Neil, the Protagonist's [[Agent handling|handler]]<ref name="Lodge-Aug2020" />
* [[Elizabeth Debicki]] as Katherine "Kat" Barton,{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} an art appraiser and Sator's estranged wife<ref name="Lodge-Aug2020" /><ref name="Phillips-Sep2020" />
* [[Dimple Kapadia]] as Priya Singh,<ref name="Lodge-Aug2020" /> an [[Arms trafficking|arms trafficker]]<ref name="Fletcher-Aug2020" />
* [[Michael Caine]] as Sir Michael Crosby, a British Intelligence officer<ref name="Smith-Aug2020" />
* [[Kenneth Branagh]] as Andrei Sator,<ref name="Collin-Aug2020" /> a [[Russian oligarch]] who communicates with the future<ref name="Collis" /><ref name="BBC-May2020" />
* [[Martin Donovan]] as Fay,{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} the Protagonist's CIA boss<ref name="Fletcher-Aug2020" />
* [[Fiona Dourif]] as Wheeler, leader of Blue Team<ref name="Gallagher-Aug2020" />
* [[Yuri Kolokolnikov]] as Volkov, Sator's bodyguard{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}
* [[Himesh Patel]] as Mahir,<ref name="Connellan-Aug2020" /> a [[Fixer (person)|fixer]]<ref name="Gallagher-Aug2020" />
* [[Clémence Poésy]] as Barbara,<ref name="Geisinger-Sep2020" /><ref name="Felperin-Aug2020" /> a scientist<ref name="Lodge-Aug2020" />
* [[Aaron Taylor-Johnson]] as Ives,<ref name="Sandwell-Aug2020" /> a military commander<ref name="Ovenden-Aug2020" />
* [[Denzil Smith]] as Sanjay Singh, Priya's husband<ref name="MidDay"/>}}
 
== Production ==
=== Pre-production ===
Writer and director [[Christopher Nolan]] conceived the ideas behind ''Tenet'' over the course of twenty years,<ref name="Maytum-Jun2020" /> but began working on the script in 2014.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} The title is a [[palindrome]] and an allusion to the [[Sator Square]].{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}<ref name="Shone-May2020" /> Nolan made a conscious effort to abstain from any influence of the [[Spy fiction|spy genre]] other than his own memory.<ref name="MaytumShepherd-May2020-B" /> ''[[Once Upon a Time in the West]]'' (1968) inspired the screenwriting.<ref name="Maytum-Jun2020" /> Theoretical physicist [[Kip Thorne]], who worked with Nolan on ''[[Interstellar (film)|Interstellar]]'' (2014), was consulted on the subjects of time and [[quantum physics]].<ref name="Maddox-Aug2020" /> Pre-production lasted from late 2018 until early 2019, leaving department heads five months to prepare.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} Special effects supervisor [[Scott R. Fisher]] watched [[World War II]] movies and documentaries to find reference points for realism.<ref name="Martin-Aug2020" /> Production designer [[Nathan Crowley]] requested [[Hamilton Watch Company]] to manufacture around thirty military wristwatches, each analog with a digital countdown.<ref name="Wolf-Sep2020" /> Nolan and Crowley traveled to [[Location scouting|scout for locations]] in February and April 2019. Disappointed with the [[Royal Swedish Opera]] as a potential spot for the [[National Opera of Ukraine|Kyiv Opera House]], Crowley switched it to the [[Linnahall]], which fit his affinity for [[Brutalist architecture]]. Shree Vardhan Tower was chosen instead of [[Antilia (building)|Antilia]], as the latter had too high security; the [[National Liberal Club]] took the place of [[Sotheby's]], whose management refused to participate; and they chose [[Cannon Hall, Hampstead|Cannon Hall]] after Thornhill Primary School in [[Islington]] and [[Channing School]] had been deemed unsatisfactory. Prop prototypes were often [[3D printing|3D printed]]. Costume designer Jeffrey Kurland and his team cut and stitched the clothing in the United States, manufacturing them for the main cast and thousands more.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}<ref name="Lohana-May2019" />
 
=== Casting ===
[[John David Washington]], [[Robert Pattinson]], and [[Elizabeth Debicki]] were cast in March 2019.<ref name="Kroll-Mar2019-A" /><ref name="Kroll-Mar2019-B" /> Washington, Pattinson, and Debicki were each only permitted to read the screenplay while locked in a room.<ref name="Collis" /><ref name="Maytum-Jun2020" /><ref name="Sharf-Apr2019" /> Nolan chose Washington for his performance in ''[[BlacKkKlansman]]'' (2018).<ref name="Storey-May2020" /> Washington kept diaries in which he would expand the Protagonist's backstory.<ref name="Mullally-Aug2020" /> Seeing Pattinson in ''[[Good Time (film)|Good Time]]'' (2017) made a considerable impression on producer [[Emma Thomas]].{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} Pattinson based his character's mannerisms on those of author [[Christopher Hitchens]].<ref name="Baron-May2020" /> While Kat was originally going to be an older woman, Debicki's appearance in ''[[Widows (2018 film)|Widows]]'' (2018) convinced the filmmakers otherwise.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} The casting of [[Dimple Kapadia]], [[Aaron Taylor-Johnson]], [[Clémence Poésy]], [[Michael Caine]], and [[Kenneth Branagh]] was announced as filming started.<ref name="Hipes-May2019" /> Kapadia's [[screen test]] was put together by director [[Homi Adajania]] while working on his 2020 film ''[[Angrezi Medium]]''.<ref name="Masand-Feb2020" /> Poésy was pregnant with her second child at the time, something Thomas opted to keep visible.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} Caine was merely given his pages for one day of work.<ref name="Sharf-Mar2020" /> Branagh rescheduled production on his own directorial venture ''[[Death on the Nile (2022 film)|Death on the Nile]]'' (2022) to do the part, claiming to have studied the manuscript more times than any other in his career.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} [[Himesh Patel]] joined in August.<ref name="Kroll-Aug2019" /> [[Martin Donovan]] was revealed in the first trailer.<ref name="Desta-Dec2019" /> [[Fiona Dourif]] and [[Yuri Kolokolnikov]] were included later on.<ref name="WarnerBros.Pictures-Aug2020" /> Dourif's role Wheeler is a reference to theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler]].{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}
 
=== Filming ===
[[Principal photography]], involving a crew of 250 people,<ref name="Baron-May2020" /> began in May 2019 on a soundstage in [[Los Angeles]] and took place in seven countries{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}<ref name="Bankhurst-May2019" />—[[Denmark]], [[Estonia]],{{#tag:ref|Seven weeks of filming in Estonia came at a cost of €16.5{{nbsp}}million;<ref name="Collis" /><ref name="Whyte-Jun2019-B" /> Warner Bros. Pictures paid a [[Rebate (marketing)|rebate]] that was reimbursed at thirty percent.<ref name="Whyte-Jun2019-B" />|group=nb}} [[India]],{{#tag:ref|It took one week to secure the permission to shoot in Mumbai.<ref name="Seta-Oct2019" /> The planned schedule was completed in half the time.<ref name="Vyavahare-Sep2019" />|group=nb}} Italy, [[Norway]], the United Kingdom, and United States.<ref name="Vyavahare-Sep2019" />{{#tag:ref|''Tenet'' went under the [[working title]] ''Merry Go Round''.<ref name="Maytum-Jun2020" /><ref name="Seta-Oct2019" />|group=nb}} Filming in Estonia happened in June and July, with the [[Linnahall]], [[Pärnu Highway]] ([[European route E67|E67]]), and adjacent streets closed to facilitate it.<ref name="Whyte-Jun2019-C" /><ref name="Vahtla-Jun2019-A" /> [[Kumu (museum)|Kumu Art Museum]] doubled as the fictional "[[Oslo]] freeport".<ref name="Steingrimsen-Aug2020" /> Barbara's office was built in a former law court, the [[Tallinn]] Freeport exterior was at the city docks, and a room at the [[Hilton Hotels & Resorts|Hilton]] Tallinn Park Hotel was also utilized.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} Mayor [[Mihhail Kõlvart]] expressed concerns about potential disruptions as the shooting schedule required that the arterial [[Lasnamäe#Transport|Laagna Road]] be closed for one month.<ref name="Whyte-Jun2019-A" /> A compromise was eventually reached, involving temporary road closures and detours.<ref name="Cavegn-Jun2019-A" /><ref name="Vahtla-Jul2019" />
 
Scenes were shot on the [[Amalfi Coast]] (Italy), [[the Solent]], at the [[Reform Club]], [[Locanda Locatelli]], and Cannon Hall (England) from July to August,{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}<ref name="Vivarelli-Aug2019" /><ref name="CamdenNewJournal-Aug2019" /> on the roof of the [[Oslo Opera House]], at [[The Thief (hotel)|The Thief]] hotel (Norway), and in [[Rødbyhavn]] at [[Nysted Wind Farm]] (Denmark) in early September.<ref name="Steingrimsen-Aug2020" /><ref name="DrabløsAlnesTunheim-Sep2019" /><ref name="MøllerNielsen-Sep2019" /> A five-day shoot occurred later that month in [[Mumbai]],<ref name="Vyavahare-Sep2019" /> specifically [[Breach Candy Hospital]], [[Cafe Mondegar]], [[Colaba Causeway]], [[Colaba]] Market, [[Gateway of India]], [[Grant Road]], [[Royal Bombay Yacht Club]], and the [[Taj Mahal Palace Hotel]].<ref name="HindustanTimes-Aug2019" /><ref name="BandekarTahseen-Sep2019" /><ref name="HindustanTimes-Sep2019" /><ref name="TheWeek-Sep2019" /> A restaurant named "Chaand" was erected near the hotel,<ref name="BandekarTahseen-Sep2019" /> but never used, serving only as an alternative.<ref name="Vyavahare-Sep2019" /> Forty boats were positioned at the Gateway of India, where the crew rescued a man who had attempted suicide.<ref name="News18-Sep2019" /> They proceeded to Los Angeles soon after. [[Hawthorne Plaza Shopping Center]] functioned as the interior set of an [[icebreaker]] and a shipping container. The [[Victorville Airport]] was disguised as Oslo, with more than ninety extras involved.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}<ref name="Maytum-Jun2020" /> Instead of using miniatures and [[visual effects]] (VFX) for the plane crash sequence, Nolan determined that purchasing a [[Boeing 747]] proved more cost effective.<ref name="MaytumShepherd-May2020-A" /> October saw them in [[Eagle Mountain, California|Eagle Mountain]], where an abandoned town had been constructed and hundreds were clothed in [[military camouflage]] uniforms.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}<ref name="Collis" /> Over thirty buildings were prefabricated in Los Angeles and shipped to the site. Four [[Boeing CH-47 Chinook]]s were loaned out for four days. Outside shots of a tunnel were done in the desert, while the insides of the Hypocenter were fashioned on a soundstage. ''Tenet'' [[Wrap (filmmaking)|wrapped]] on November 12, after ninety-six days.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}
 
Director of photography [[Hoyte van Hoytema]] employed a combination of [[65 mm film]] and [[IMAX]],<ref name="BusinessWire-May2019" /> prioritizing [[Panavision]] lenses that would best accommodate lower light.<ref name="Martin-Aug2020" /> Segments that concerned time inversion were captured both in backward and forward mobility and speech.<ref name="Gillespie-Aug2020" /><ref name="Hutchinson-Aug2020" /> To ensure proficiency in handling firearms, Washington and Pattinson attended the Taran Tactical firing range in [[Simi Valley, California|Simi Valley]]. They also did some of their own stunts. Over one hundred watercraft were recruited, together with two [[F50 (catamaran)|F50]] [[catamaran]]s, the [[megayacht]] ''Planet Nine'' (onto which an [[Mi-8]] helicopter would land), icebreakers, [[Motorboat|speed]]- and [[fishing boat]]s, and a cargo [[Tanker (ship)|tanker]].{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} The windfarm vessel ''Iceni Revenge'' was brought through Denmark, Estonia, and Italy for all three months.<ref name="Coates-Aug2020" />
 
===Post-production===
[[Jennifer Lame]] replaced Nolan's long-time editor [[Lee Smith (film editor)|Lee Smith]], who was occupied with 2019's ''[[1917 (2019 film)|1917]]''.<ref name="Kit-Apr2019" /> Lame was tasked with unsupervised editing during the principal photography and would look at [[dailies]].{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} [[DNEG]] created about 280 VFX shots.<ref name="Maytum-Jun2020" /> Sound designer [[Richard King (sound designer)|Richard King]] sent a team to Eagle Mountain to record the Chinooks and Mi-8, and to [[Southampton]] for the [[F50 (catamaran)|F50]] catamarans. Others were hired for the aural atmosphere of Oslo, Mumbai, and Tallinn. King got the audio of both live and blank automatic weapon rounds at a gun range in [[San Francisquito Canyon]] and rented a runway to test how the vehicles sounded.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}
 
==Music==
{{See also|Tenet: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack}}
 
[[Ludwig Göransson]] was chosen as the composer as Nolan's frequent collaborator [[Hans Zimmer]] had committed himself to the 2021 film ''[[Dune (2021 film)|Dune]]''.<ref name="Stolworthy-May2019" /><ref name="Barfield-Jul2019" /> During the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Göransson recorded musicians at their homes.<ref name="Collis" /> Researching [[Retrograde (music)|retrograde composition]] caused him to generate melodies that would sound the same forward and backward. He experimented with distorted [[industrial noise]] and, to represent Sator's irradiated breathing, asked Nolan to tape his own in studio. Göransson produced ten to fifteen minutes of music each week. The first scoring session was held in November 2019, continuing into early 2020.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} The ''Tenet'' soundtrack contains "[[The Plan (Travis Scott song)|The Plan]]," a song by [[Travis Scott]],<ref name="Langford-Aug2020" /> which plays over the film's closing credits.
 
== Release ==
===Theatrical===
Warner Bros. originally scheduled ''Tenet'' for a July 17, 2020, release in IMAX, [[35 mm movie film|35 mm]], and 70&nbsp;mm film.<ref name="Sharf-Dec2019" /> Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was first delayed to July 31,<ref name="D'Alessandro-Jun2020" /><ref name="McClintock-Jun2020" /> and subsequently August 12.<ref name="Rubin-Jun2020" /> Executives calculated that each postponement cost Warner Bros. between $200,000 and $400,000 in marketing fees.<ref name="Rubin-Jul2020-A" /> After briefly being held up indefinitely,<ref name="D'Alessandro-Jul2020" /> Warner Bros. arranged the film to be released internationally on August 26 in seventy countries, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United Kingdom.<ref name="Rubin-Jul2020-B" /> Preview screenings commenced in Australia and South Korea on August 22 and 23.<ref name="Flicks-Aug2020" /><ref name="Tartaglione-Aug2020-B" /> It moved to select cities in the United States on September 3, gradually expanding in the ensuing weeks.<ref name="Rubin-Jul2020-B" /> On September 4, it came out in China.<ref name="Tartaglione-Aug2020-A" /> ''Tenet'' became the first Hollywood [[Tent-pole (entertainment)|tent-pole]] to [[Wide release|launch in theaters]] following their prolonged shutdown.<ref name="Roxborough-Sep2020" /> The lack of available movies afforded it more screens per [[Multiplex (movie theater)|multiplex]] than would otherwise be possible.<ref name="Littleton-Sep2020" />
 
===Home media===
It became available on [[4K Ultra HD]], [[Blu-ray]], [[DVD]], and digital services on December 15, 2020.<ref name="Rubin-Nov2020-B" /> On March 2, 2021, Warner Bros. announced that in light of the New York state government allowing movie theaters in New York City to re-open the following Friday (March 5) following a nearly year-long shutdown (causing theaters in the city to miss out on the film's initial theatrical run), they would be re-releasing ''Tenet'' at select theaters in the city that same day.<ref name="D'Alessandro-Mar2021" /> ''Tenet'' was released on [[HBO Max]] on May 1, 2021.<ref name="Lattanzio-Mar2021" />
 
== Reception ==
=== Box office ===
''Tenet'' grossed $58.5{{nbsp}}million in the United States and Canada, and $305.2{{nbsp}}million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $363.7{{nbsp}}million.<ref name="BOM" /><ref name="TheNumbers" /> With a production budget of $200{{nbsp}}million,<ref name="RubinVary-Jan2020" /> ''Tenet'' is Nolan's most expensive original project.<ref name="Sharf-Jan2020" /> ''[[IndieWire]]'' speculated that the marketing could push the final sum to $300–350{{nbsp}}million,<ref name="Brueggemann-May2020" /> though analysts predicted lower advertising costs than usual, owing to inexpensive live sports ads.<ref name="KeeganMcClintock-Jul2020" /> Box office analyst Jeff Bock estimated it would need to make $400–$500{{nbsp}}million in order to [[break even]].<ref name="Katz-Apr2020" /> In November 2020, rival studios expected the film to lose up to $100{{nbsp}}million, but Warner Bros. insisted losses would not top $50{{nbsp}}million.<ref name="Rubin-Nov2020-A" /> Nolan was reported to receive twenty percent of the [[first-dollar gross]].<ref name="D'Alessandro-May2020" />
 
''Tenet'' was projected to take $25–30{{nbsp}}million internationally over its first five days.<ref name="Tartaglione-Aug2020-C" /> In South Korea, pre-sale IMAX tickets sold out and weekend previews totaled $717,000 from 590 venues.<ref name="Tartaglione-Aug2020-B" /> Another four days there yielded $4.13{{nbsp}}million from about 2,200 screens, bringing the cume to $5.1{{nbsp}}million by the end of the week. The film debuted to $53{{nbsp}}million in forty-one countries, grossing $7.1{{nbsp}}million in the United Kingdom, $6.7{{nbsp}}million in France, and $4.2{{nbsp}}million in Germany.<ref name="Rubin-Aug2020" /><ref name="Tartaglione-Aug2020-D" /><ref name="D'Alessandro-Sep2020-A" /> ''Tenet'' made $58.1{{nbsp}}million in its second weekend, with China ($30{{nbsp}}million from first showings), the U.K. ($13.1{{nbsp}}million), France ($10.7{{nbsp}}million), Germany ($8.7{{nbsp}}million), and South Korea ($8.2{{nbsp}}million) as its largest markets.<ref name="Tartaglione-Sep2020-A" /> Its third weekend garnered $30.6{{nbsp}}million, comprising $16.4{{nbsp}}million from the U.K., $13.2{{nbsp}}million from France, $11.4{{nbsp}}million from Germany, $10.3{{nbsp}}million from South Korea, and $10.2{{nbsp}}million from China.<ref name="Tartaglione-Sep2020-B" /> Two weeks in Japan accumulated $11.4{{nbsp}}million.<ref name="Schilling-Oct2020" /> ''Tenet'' opened in India on December 4, 2020,<ref name="Rawat-Nov2020" /> and made about $1.2 million in the first ten days.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kaushal|first=Sweta|title=India Box Office: Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Surpasses $1 Million In 10 Days|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/swetakaushal/2020/12/15/india-box-office-nolans-tenet-crosses-1-million-in-10-days/|access-date=2021-07-13|website=Forbes|language=en}}</ref> ''Tenet'' became the highest-grossing film of all time in [[Estonia]], with a total gross of $1.2 million.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-10-04|title=GLOBAL REPORT: Tenet Crosses $300M Worldwide, Soft Drops Continue as Domestic Reaches $45M; Hocus Pocus Surprises; China's Market Remains Strong in Recovery|url=https://www.boxofficepro.com/global-report-tenet-crosses-300m-worldwide-threshold-continues-soft-drops-as-domestic-reaches-45m-hocus-pocus-china/|access-date=2021-01-17|website=Boxoffice|language=en-US|archive-date=October 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201007070804/https://www.boxofficepro.com/global-report-tenet-crosses-300m-worldwide-threshold-continues-soft-drops-as-domestic-reaches-45m-hocus-pocus-china/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
With 65% of American and Canadian theaters operating at 25–40% capacity, the first eleven days acquired $20.2{{nbsp}}million from 2,810 theaters; $2.5{{nbsp}}million in Canada, $12{{nbsp}}million in the U.S., and the rest from previews.<ref name="D'Alessandro-Sep2020-A" /><ref name="D'Alessandro-Sep2020-B" /> The second, third, and fourth weekends added $6.7{{nbsp}}million, $4.7{{nbsp}}million, and $3.4{{nbsp}}million, respectively.<ref name="D'Alessandro-Sep2020-C" /><ref name="D'Alessandro-Sep2020-D" /><ref name="D'Alessandro-Sep2020-E" /> ''Tenet'' remained atop the box office in its fifth weekend with $2.7{{nbsp}}million,<ref name="D'Alessandro-Oct2020-A" /> before ceding to ''[[The War with Grandpa]]'' in its sixth weekend.<ref name="D'Alessandro-Oct2020-B" />
 
=== Critical response ===
On review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]], 70% of 353 critics gave ''Tenet'' a positive review, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "A visually dazzling puzzle for film lovers to unlock, ''Tenet'' serves up all the cerebral spectacle audiences expect from a Christopher Nolan production."<ref name="RottenTomatoes">{{cite Rotten Tomatoes |id=tenet |title=Tenet|type=m|accessdate=June 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210104123345/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tenet|archive-date=January 4, 2021|url-status=live }}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a [[weighted arithmetic mean|weighted average score]] of 69 out of 100 based on 50 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref name="Metacritic">{{cite mc |id=tenet |type=movie |title=Tenet |access-date=January 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231024306/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/tenet|archive-date=December 31, 2020|url-status=live }}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale,<ref name="Lattanzio-Sep2020" /> and [[PostTrak]] reported 80% of those gave the film a positive score, with 65% saying they would recommend it.<ref name="D'Alessandro-Sep2020-C" /> Keith Phillips of ''[[The Ringer (website)|The Ringer]]'' wrote that ''Tenet'' has the makings of a [[cult film]]: "With a failed release due to the pandemic, a muted critical reception, and a twisty narrative that demands multiple viewings, Christopher Nolan's 2020 film has all of the elements that eventually lead to niche fandom."<ref name="Phipps-Jan2021">{{Cite web|last=Phipps|first=Keith|date=2021-01-26|title='Tenet' Is Destined to Become a Cult Movie|url=https://www.theringer.com/movies/2021/1/26/22249447/tenet-is-a-cult-movie-christopher-nolan-pandemic|access-date=2021-01-26|website=The Ringer|language=en|archive-date=February 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210094732/https://www.theringer.com/movies/2021/1/26/22249447/tenet-is-a-cult-movie-christopher-nolan-pandemic|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Guy Lodge of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' described ''Tenet'' as a "grandly entertaining, time-slipping spectacle."<ref name="Lodge-Aug2020" /> ''[[The Guardian]]'' critic [[Peter Bradshaw]] felt it was both "madly preposterous" and "amazing cinema".<ref name="Bradshaw-Aug2020" /> [[Kevin Maher (writer)|Kevin Maher]] of ''[[The Times]]'' awarded the film a full five stars, deeming it "a delightfully convoluted masterpiece."<ref name="Maher-Aug2020" /> [[Robbie Collin]] of ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'' likened it to Nolan's ''Inception'' and praised the "depth, subtlety and wit of Pattinson and Debicki's performances."<ref name="Collin-Aug2020" /> In his review for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', [[Peter Travers]] praised the film for being "pure, ravishing cinema", and praised Washington's performance, calling him a "star-in-the-making" and writing, "A former football running back, the actor brings a natural athletic grace to the stunts and hand-to-hand combat that forge a visceral bond between his character and the audience."<ref name="Travers-Aug2020" /> A review for ''[[The Dispatch]]'' called ''Tenet'' "the perfect movie to mark the return of theaters because it captures so much of what makes the medium of cinema great."<ref name="Dent-Sep2020" /> [[James Berardinelli]] noted that, "[''Tenet''] may be the most challenging of Nolan's films to date when it comes to wrapping one's mind around the concepts forming the narrative's foundation: backwards-moving entropy, non-linear thinking, temporal paradoxes ... The film contains some of Nolan's most ambitious action sequences to-date but one wonders whether the plot density—a not inconsiderable obstacle for some who prefer not to devote their undivided attention for {{frac|2|1|2}} hours—might prove to be problematic."<ref name="Berardinelli-Aug2020" /> Mark Daniell of the ''[[Toronto Sun]]'' gave the film four out of four stars, deeming it "the cinematic equivalent of a [[Rubik's Cube]], presented in towering Imax and featuring a polished cast set amidst some of the world's most gorgeous locations."<ref name="Daniell-Aug2020" /> [[Richard Roeper]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave it {{frac|3|1|2}} out of 4 stars, and noted that the movie "reaches for cinematic greatness and, though it doesn't quite reach that lofty goal, it's the kind of film that reminds us of the magic of the moviegoing experience."<ref name="Roeper-Aug2020" />
 
Jessica Kiang of ''[[The New York Times]]'' described it as Nolan's "time-bending" take on [[James Bond]], praising the film's cinematography, score, editing, acting and "immaculately creaseless costumes", while also deeming it a "hugely expensive, blissfully empty spectacle".<ref name="Kiang-Aug2020" /> ''[[LA Weekly]]''{{'}}s Asher Luberto also highlighted the similarities between ''Tenet'' and the [[Production of the James Bond films|James Bond films]], but also felt it was "a daring, surprising and entirely original piece of work, reverent in its spectacle and haunting in its mesmerizing, dreamlike form."<ref name="Luberto-Sep2020" /> Branagh's Andrei Sator was described by some critics as a stereotypical [[Stereotype#Role in art and culture|Russian villain]].<ref name="Sarkisian-Aug2020" /><ref name="Tallerico-Aug2020" /> Christina Newland of ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' noted that Sator is "played by a silly-accented Kenneth Branagh as a Bond-villain-esque Russian mastermind."<ref name="Newland-Aug2020" /> Leslie Felperin of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' felt Washington was "dashing but a little dull," but remarked that Debicki's performance "adds a color to Nolan's palette, and [she] has persuasive chemistry with Branagh in their joint portrait of a violent, dysfunctional love-hate relationship." She further concluded that ''Tenet'' makes "for a chilly, cerebral film—easy to admire, especially since it's so rich in audacity and originality, but almost impossible to love, lacking as it is in a certain humanity."<ref name="Felperin-Aug2020" />
 
Mike McCahill of ''IndieWire'' noted that it was "the summer's most keenly awaited event movie" but gave it a "C-" grade and called it "a humorless disappointment".<ref name="McCahill-Aug2020" /> Poor [[sound mixing]] on 35&nbsp;mm movie film "often" rendered dialog inaudible, stated Brian Lloyd of ''[[Entertainment.ie]]''; viewing the film on [[Digital Cinema Package]] files reduced the problem.<ref name="Lloyd-Aug2020" /> [[Michael Phillips (critic)|Michael Phillips]] of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' awarded the film 2 out of 4 stars, writing, "I wish ''Tenet'' exploited its own ideas more dynamically. Nolan's a prodigious talent. But no major director, I suppose, can avoid going sideways from time to time."<ref name="Phillips-Aug2020" /> ''[[New York Post]]''{{'}}s Johnny Oleksinski also gave it 2 out of 4 stars, calling it Nolan's most "confusing" work so far, but acknowledged being "swept up by Nolan's incomparable cinematic vision. He is one of the few directors working today who consistently churns out visually seismic, sophisticated action films".<ref name="Oleksinski-Aug2020" /> Kathleen Sachs of the ''[[Chicago Reader]]'' gave it {{frac|1|1|2}} out of 4 stars, concluding that Nolan "doesn't show much growth in his most recent self-indulgent work."<ref name="Sachs-Sep2020" />
 
=== Accolades ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Ceremonies
! Year(s)
! Categories
! Recipients/nominees
! Results
! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Academy Awards]]
| rowspan="2"| [[93rd Academy Awards|2021]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Production Design]]
| Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2"| <ref name="Oscars">{{cite web|url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/15/the-full-list-of-2021-oscar-nominations|title= The full list of 2021 Oscar nominations|date=15 March 2021|work=Guardian|access-date= 15 March 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Visual Effects|Best Visual Effects]]
| [[Andrew Jackson (visual effects)|Andrew Jackson]], David Lee, [[Andrew Lockley]] and [[Scott R. Fisher|Scott Fisher]]
| {{Won}}
|-
| [[ADG Excellence in Production Design Award|Art Directors Guild Awards]]
| [[Art Directors Guild Awards 2020|2021]]
| [[Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film|Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film]]
| [[Nathan Crowley]]
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://adg.org/awards/adg/nominees/2021/|title=2021 ADG AWARDS NOMINEES|work=[[Art Directors Guild]]|access-date= March 4, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[British Academy Film Awards]]
| [[74th British Academy Film Awards|2021]]
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects|Best Special Visual Effects]]
| Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson and Andrew Lockley
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bafta.org/film/awards/2021-nominations-winners|title=2021 EE British Academy Film Awards: The Nominations|website=[[BAFTA]]|date=March 9, 2021|access-date=9 March 2021}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="5"| [[Critics' Choice Awards]]
| rowspan="5"| [[26th Critics' Choice Awards|2021]]
| Best Cinematography
| [[Hoyte van Hoytema]]
| {{nominated}}
| rowspan="5"| <ref name="cc">{{cite web|url=http://www.criticschoice.com/2021/02/film-nominations-announced-for-the-26th-annual-critics-choice-awards/|title=Film nominees for the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards have been announced|access-date=February 11, 2021|date=February 8, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| Best Editing
| [[Jennifer Lame]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
| Best Production Design
| [[Nathan Crowley]] and Kathy Lucas
| {{nominated}}
|-
| Best Score
| [[Ludwig Göransson]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
| Best Visual Effects
| ''Tenet''
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Critics' Choice Super Awards]]
| rowspan="2"| [[1st Critics' Choice Super Awards|2021]]
| Best Action Movie
| ''Tenet''
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2"|<ref name="ccs">{{Cite web|url=https://criticschoice.com/critics-choice-super-awards/|title=Critics Choice Super Awards &#124; Critics Choice Awards|access-date=December 18, 2020|archive-date=December 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201081405/https://criticschoice.com/critics-choice-super-awards/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| Best Actor in an Action Movie
| [[John David Washington]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| Golden Angel Award in [[Chinese American Film Festival]]
| 2020
| Most Popular U.S. Film in China
| ''Tenet''
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202011/12/WS5fac7a04a31024ad0ba9386b.html|title=Show goes online for Chinese-American film, TV events|website=www.chinadaily.com.cn|access-date=December 18, 2020|archive-date=November 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125164523/http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202011/12/WS5fac7a04a31024ad0ba9386b.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Golden Globe Awards]]
| [[78th Golden Globe Awards|2021]]
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]]
| Ludwig Göransson
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees|title=Winners & Nominees 2021|website=www.goldenglobes.com|language=en|access-date=2021-02-09|archive-date=August 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802210349/https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Hollywood Music in Media Awards]]
| rowspan="2"| [[11th Hollywood Music in Media Awards|2021]]
| [[Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score in a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film|Best Original Score in a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film]]
| Ludwig Göransson
| {{won}}
| rowspan="2"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/awards/9517388/diane-warren-james-newton-howard-winners-2021-hollywood-music-in-media-awards/|title=Diane Warren & James Newton Howard Among Top Winners at 2021 Hollywood Music in Media Awards|date=January 27, 2021|accessdate=January 28, 2021|work=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|first=Paul|last=Grein}}</ref>
|-
| [[Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Song in a Feature Film|Best Original Song in a Feature Film]]
| "[[The Plan (Travis Scott song)|The Plan]]" – [[Travis Scott|Jacques Webster II]], [[WondaGurl|Ebony Naomi Oshunrinde]] and Ludwig Göransson
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Hugo Award]]s
| 2021
| [[Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation|Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form]]
| [[Christopher Nolan]]
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{cite web |title=2021 Hugo Awards |date=January 2021 |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2021-hugo-awards/ |publisher=World Science Fiction Society |access-date=2021-04-13}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Motion Picture Sound Editors|Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards]]
| rowspan="2"| 2021
| [[Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley for Feature Film|Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley for Feature Film]]
| [[Richard King (sound designer)|Richard King]], Joseph Fraioli, Mark Larry, Michael W. Mitchell, Angela Ang, Bruce Tanis, John Cucci, Catherine Harper, Alyson Dee Moore, Chris Moriana, Dan O'Connell, Shelley Roden, John Roesch and Katie Rose
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2021/03/golden-reel-awards-2021-nominations-sound-editors-mpse-1234704003/ |title=Sound Editors Nominate 'Wonder Woman', 'Sound Of Metal', 'Tenet' & Others For Golden Reel Awards – Full List |author=Erik Pederson |date= March 1, 2021 | website= [[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]] | publisher=[[Penske Media Corporation|Variety Media, LLC.]] |accessdate= March 1, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Underscore|Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Underscore]]
| [[Alex Gibson (sound editor)|Alex Gibson]] and Nicholas Fitzgerald
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[People's Choice Awards]]
| rowspan="2"| [[46th People's Choice Awards|2020]]
| Favorite Action Movie
| ''Tenet''
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2"| <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/here-are-nominees-2020-people-s-choice-awards-t192942|title=Here are the nominees for the 2020 People's Choice Awards|website=TODAY.com|access-date=December 18, 2020|archive-date=November 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128211936/https://www.today.com/popculture/here-are-nominees-2020-people-s-choice-awards-t192942|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| Favorite Action Movie Star
| John David Washington
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="5"| [[Satellite Awards]]
| rowspan="5"| [[25th Satellite Awards|2021]]
| [[Satellite Award for Best Film|Best Motion Picture – Drama]]
| ''Tenet''
| {{nominated}}
| rowspan="5"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pressacademy.com/news/25th-satellite-awards-nominees-for-motion-pictures-and-television-announced/ |title=25th Satellite Awards Nominees for Motion Pictures and Television Announced |last=Van Blaricom|first=Mirjana |date=February 1, 2021 |publisher=[[International Press Academy]] |access-date=February 1, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[Satellite Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
| Hoyte van Hoytema
| {{nominated}}
|-
| [[Satellite Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]]
| Ludwig Göransson
| {{nominated}}
|-
| [[Satellite Award for Best Sound|Best Sound (Editing and Mixing)]]
| Willie D. Burton, Richard King, Kevin O'Connell & Gary A.Rizzo
| {{nominated}}
|-
| [[Satellite Award for Best Visual Effects|Best Visual Effects]]
| [[Andrew Jackson (visual effects)|Andrew Jackson]]
| {{win}}
|-
| rowspan="9"| [[Saturn Awards]]
| rowspan="9"| [[46th Saturn Awards|2021]]
| [[Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film|Best Science Fiction Film]]
| ''Tenet''
| {{pending}}
| rowspan=9|<ref>{{cite web | date=March 4, 2021 | last=Hipes | first=Patrick | title=Saturn Awards Nominations: 'Star Wars: Rise Of Skywalker', 'Tenet', 'Walking Dead', 'Outlander' Lead List | website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] | url=https://deadline.com/2021/03/saturn-awards-nominations-2021-nominees-list-1234706492/ | access-date=March 5, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Christopher Nolan
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Writing|Best Writing]]
| Christopher Nolan
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| John David Washington
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| [[Robert Pattinson]]
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Editing|Best Editing]]
| Jennifer Lame
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Music|Best Music]]
| Ludwig Göransson
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Production Design|Best Production Design]]
| Nathan Crowley
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Special Effects|Best Special / Visual Effects]]
| Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley, Scott R. Fisher, Mike Chambers
| {{pending}}
|-
| Set Decorators Society of America Awards
| [[Set Decorators Society of America Awards 2020|2021]]
| Best Achievement in Décor/Design of a Science Fiction or Fantasy Feature Film
| Kathy Lucas and Nathan Crowley
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|last=Grobar|first=Matt|title=Set Decorators Society Of America Awards: David Fincher's 'Mank' Tops Winners List With Best Picture & Best Period Design|url=https://deadline.com/2021/04/set-decorators-society-of-america-awards-mank-winners-list-1234726670/|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|access-date=June 23, 2021|date=April 1, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[Visual Effects Society|Visual Effects Society Awards]]
| [[19th Visual Effects Society Awards|2021]]
| [[Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature|Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature]]
| [[Andrew Jackson (visual effects)|Andrew Jackson]], Mike Chambers, [[Andrew Lockley]], David Lee, [[Scott R. Fisher|Scott Fisher]]
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.visualeffectssociety.com/press-releases/19th-annual-ves-awards-nominees/|title=Visual Effects Society Announces Nominees for 19th Annual VES Awards|date=March 1, 2021|access-date=March 2, 2021}}</ref>
|}
 
Glenn Whipp of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' noted that Warner Bros. did not put ''Tenet'' on the [[Academy Awards|Academy]]'s streaming platform or send out screeners to awards voters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2021-03-12/oscar-nominations-2021-complete-predictions|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=March 13, 2021|title=Oscar nominations 2021: Complete predictions in all 23 categories|first=Glenn|last=Whipp}}</ref>
 
== Notes ==
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== References ==
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<ref name="BusinessWire-May2019">{{cite web |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190522005664/en/ |title=Filming is Underway on "Tenet," a New Film from Christopher Nolan |publisher=[[Business Wire]] |date=May 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190526041050/https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190522005664/en/ |archive-date=May 26, 2019 |access-date=July 15, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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<ref name="Berardinelli-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Berardinelli |first=James |author-link=James Berardinelli |date=August 28, 2020 |url=https://www.reelviews.net/reelviews/tenet |title=Tenet (United Kingdom/United States, 2020) |website=Reelviews |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200831093727/https://www.reelviews.net/reelviews/tenet |archive-date=August 31, 2020 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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<ref name="Littleton-Sep2020">{{cite web |last=Littleton |first=Cynthia |date=September 3, 2020 |url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/tenet-warner-bros-ann-sarnoff-hbo-max-1234758694/ |title=Warner Bros. Chief Talks 'Tenet' Release, WarnerMedia Shakeup, HBO Max Progress |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200904055050/https://variety.com/2020/film/news/tenet-warner-bros-ann-sarnoff-hbo-max-1234758694/ |archive-date=September 4, 2020 |access-date=September 4, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Wolf-Sep2020">{{cite web |last=Wolf |first=Cam |date=September 3, 2020 |url=https://www.gq.com/story/hamilton-tenet-watch |title=How Tenet's Special Watch Was Built In Total Secrecy |work=[[GQ]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200904214312/https://www.gq.com/story/hamilton-tenet-watch |archive-date=September 4, 2020 |access-date=September 4, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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<ref name="Lattanzio-Sep2020">{{cite web |last=Lattanzio |first=Ryan |date=September 5, 2020 |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2020/09/tenet-cinemascore-christopher-nolan-1234584634/ |title='Tenet' Gets a B CinemaScore, Christopher Nolan's Lowest Since 'The Prestige' |website=[[IndieWire]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200905215610/https://www.indiewire.com/2020/09/tenet-cinemascore-christopher-nolan-1234584634/ |archive-date=September 5, 2020 |access-date=September 5, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Dent-Sep2020">{{cite web |last=Dent |first=Alec |date=September 5, 2020 |url=https://thedispatch.com/p/tenet-nolans-masterful-take-on-time |title=Tenet: Nolan's Masterful Take on Time Travel |work=[[The Dispatch]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200905220050/https://thedispatch.com/p/tenet-nolans-masterful-take-on-time |archive-date=September 5, 2020 |access-date=September 5, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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<ref name="D'Alessandro-Mar2021">{{cite web |last1=D'Alessandro |first1=Anthony |title='Tenet' Finally Arriving In New York City This Friday |url=https://deadline.com/2021/03/tenet-finally-arriving-in-new-york-city-this-friday-1234704793/ |website=Deadline |access-date=8 March 2021 |date=2 March 2021}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Collis">{{cite web |last=Collis |first=Clark |url=https://ew.com/movies/christopher-nolan-tenet-cover/ |title=Time for Tenet: Behind the scenes of Christopher Nolan's top-secret movie |work=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200618173126/https://ew.com/movies/christopher-nolan-tenet-cover/ |archive-date=June 18, 2020 |access-date=July 15, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="BBFC">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/tenet-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc00ota0mtc |title=Tenet |publisher=[[British Board of Film Classification]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201123133037/https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/tenet-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc00ota0mtc |archive-date=November 23, 2020 |access-date=November 23, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="BFI">{{cite web |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/5f3da3b88a6ce |title=Tenet |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201123133456/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/5f3da3b88a6ce |archive-date=November 23, 2020 |access-date=November 23, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Lattanzio-Mar2021">{{cite web|title='Tenet' Arriving on HBO Max on May 1, Months After Nolan Slammed the Platform|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2021/03/tenet-hbo-max-streaming-1234625126/|last=Lattanzio|first=Ryan|date=March 21, 2021|access-date=April 6, 2021|website=[[IndieWire]]}}</ref>
 
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=== Bibliography ===
* {{cite book |last=Mottram |first=James |title=The Secrets of Tenet: Inside Christopher Nolan's Quantum Cold War |year=2020 |publisher=Insight Editions|isbn=978-1-64722-060-0 }}
 
== Further reading ==
* {{cite book |last=Belluomini |first=L. |contribution=''Tenet'' as Philosophy: Fatalism Isn't an Excuse to Do Nothing |editor=Johnson D. K. |title=The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy | year=2020 | publisher=Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-97134-6_99-1 |isbn=978-3-319-97134-6}}
 
== External links ==
* {{Official website}}
* {{IMDb title}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes}}
* {{Mojo title}}
* [http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tenet Tenet] at the [[Science Fiction Encyclopedia]]
 
{{Christopher Nolan}}
{{Seattle Film Critics Society Award for Best Action Choreography}}
 
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{{short description|2020 film by Christopher Nolan}}
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{{Infobox film
| name                  = Tenet
| image                = Tenet movie poster.jpg
| caption              = Theatrical release poster
| director              = [[Christopher Nolan]]
| producer              = {{Plainlist|
* [[Emma Thomas]]
* Christopher Nolan
}}
| writer                = Christopher Nolan
| starring              = {{Plainlist|
* [[John David Washington]]
* [[Robert Pattinson]]
* [[Elizabeth Debicki]]
* [[Dimple Kapadia]]
* [[Michael Caine]]
* [[Kenneth Branagh]]
}}
| music                = [[Ludwig Göransson]]
| cinematography      = [[Hoyte van Hoytema]]
| editing              = [[Jennifer Lame]]
| production_companies = {{Plainlist|
* [[Warner Bros. Pictures]]
* [[Syncopy Inc.|Syncopy]]
}}
| distributor          = Warner Bros. Pictures
| released            = {{Film date|2020|8|26|United Kingdom|2020|9|3|United States}}
| runtime              = 150 minutes<ref name="BBFC" />
| country              = {{Plainlist|
* United Kingdom<ref name="BFI" />
* United States<ref name="BFI" />
}}
| language            = English
| budget              = $200{{nbsp}}million<ref name="Rubin-Aug2020" />
| gross                = $363.7{{nbsp}}million<ref name="BOM">{{cite BOM |id=6723592 |title=Tenet |access-date=April 16, 2021 |archive-date=September 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200903152246/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt6723592/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="TheNumbers">{{cite the numbers |id=Tenet-(2020)#tab=box-office |title=Tenet |access-date==April 16, 2021 |archive-date=October 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008174331/https://m.the-numbers.com/movie/Tenet-(2020)#tab=box-office |url-status=live }}</ref>
}}
 
'''''Tenet''''' is a 2020 [[science fiction film|science fiction]] [[action thriller film]] written and directed by [[Christopher Nolan]], who produced it with [[Emma Thomas]]. A co-production between the United Kingdom and United States, it stars [[John David Washington]], [[Robert Pattinson]], [[Elizabeth Debicki]], [[Dimple Kapadia]], [[Michael Caine]], and [[Kenneth Branagh]]. The film follows a secret agent who learns to manipulate the [[Arrow of time|flow of time]] to prevent an attack from the future that threatens to annihilate the present world.
 
Nolan took more than five years to write the screenplay after deliberating about ''Tenet''{{'}}s central ideas for over a decade. Pre-production began in late 2018, casting took place in March 2019, and principal photography lasted six months, from May to November, in Denmark, Estonia, India, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Cinematographer [[Hoyte van Hoytema]] shot on [[65 mm film]] and [[IMAX]]. Over one hundred vessels and thousands of extras were used.
 
Delayed three times because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], ''Tenet'' was released in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2020, and United States on September 3, 2020, in IMAX, [[35 mm movie film|35 mm]], and 70&nbsp;mm. It was the first Hollywood [[Tent-pole (entertainment)|tent-pole]] to [[Wide release|open in theaters]] after the pandemic shutdown, and grossed $363{{nbsp}}million worldwide, making it the [[2020 in film#Highest-grossing films|fifth-highest-grossing film of 2020]]. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and won [[Academy Award for Best Visual Effects|Best Visual Effects]] at the [[93rd Academy Awards]]; it was also nominated for [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Production Design]].
 
== Plot ==
A [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent, the "Protagonist", participates in an extraction operation at the [[National Opera of Ukraine|Kyiv opera house]]. After seizing an artifact, the Protagonist is captured by mercenaries. He is tortured before consuming a [[suicide pill]]. He awakens to learn the suicide pill was a test of loyalty and that the artifact was lost.
 
The Protagonist is recruited by an organization called Tenet. A scientist briefs him on bullets with "inverted" [[entropy]], meaning they move [[T-symmetry|backward through time]]. The Protagonist meets his handler, Neil, through a CIA contact, and they trace the inverted bullets to arms dealer Priya Singh in [[Mumbai]]. They learn that Priya is a member of Tenet, and her cartridges were purchased and inverted by [[Russian oligarch]] Andrei Sator.
 
The Protagonist approaches Sator's estranged wife Kat, an art appraiser who falsely authenticated a forged [[Francisco Goya|Goya]] drawing. She tells him that Sator purchased the drawing from the forger, Arepo, and is using Kat's authentication as blackmail to control her in their relationship. The Protagonist and Neil plot to steal the drawing from a [[Free economic zone|freeport]] storage facility at the [[Oslo Airport, Gardermoen|Oslo Airport]]. There they fend off two masked men who emerge from a device. Afterward, Priya explains that the device is a turnstile, a machine that can invert the entropy of objects and people, and that the masked men were the same person traveling in opposite directions through time.
 
Kat introduces the Protagonist to Sator, and learns the drawing is intact. Sator plans to kill the Protagonist, but the Protagonist saves Sator's life after Kat attempts to drown him. Sator and the Protagonist strike a partnership to retrieve a case supposedly containing [[plutonium-241]]. In [[Tallinn]], the Protagonist and Neil ambush a convoy and steal the case, which actually contains the artifact lost in Kyiv. They are ambushed by an inverted Sator holding Kat hostage. The Protagonist gives an empty case to Sator, who retreats after receiving it. The Protagonist rescues Kat but is soon captured and taken to a warehouse with a turnstile.
 
In the warehouse, the inverted Sator shoots Kat with an inverted round, while he demands the location of the artifact. Tenet operatives led by Ives arrive and rescue the Protagonist while Sator escapes into the turnstile. The group takes Kat through the turnstile to aid healing her inverted wound. The now-inverted Protagonist travels back in time to the ambush site, where he unsuccessfully attempts to retrieve the artifact, Sator has got hold of it. The Protagonist's car is overturned and set on fire by Sator, but Neil saves him.
 
The Protagonist, Neil, and Kat travel back in time to the freeport in Oslo. The Protagonist fights his past self, enters the turnstile, and reverts, followed by Neil and Kat. Later, Priya explains that Sator is collecting the artifacts to assemble an "algorithm" which can catastrophically invert the entropy of the Earth.
 
[[File:Sator_Square_at_Oppède.jpg|thumb|[[Sator square]], providing the film title, location of the opening sequence (Kyiv Opera), and character or firm names (A. Sator; Arepo the Goya forger; and Rotas Security in Oslo Freeport)]]
Kat reveals Sator is dying from [[cancer]]. They think that Sator is using a [[dead man's switch]] to send the location of the algorithm into the future. Kat believes Sator will travel back in time to commit suicide during their vacation in [[Vietnam]]. The Protagonist, Neil, Kat, and Tenet troops travel back in time to that day, where Kat poses as her past self to keep Sator alive long enough for Tenet to secure the algorithm. Tenet tracks the algorithm to Sator's hometown, Stalsk-12, where it is heavily guarded. They launch a "temporal [[pincer movement]]", with non-inverted and inverted troops making a simultaneous assault. Sator reveals people in the future want him to find and gather the algorithm pieces in the hopes of reversing the effects of climate change. An inverted soldier wearing a red trinket sacrifices himself to save the Protagonist and Ives as they attempt to secure the algorithm. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, Kat kills Sator, hoping the Tenet team is able to secure the algorithm.
 
The Protagonist, Neil, and Ives break up the algorithm and part ways. The Protagonist notices that Neil is wearing the red trinket. Neil reveals he was recruited by the Protagonist in Neil's past. Since Kat knows too much, Priya attempts to have her assassinated, but Priya is killed by the Protagonist, who has concluded that he is the mastermind behind Tenet.
 
===Scientific accuracy===
 
The film's plot revolves around reversing the [[entropy]] of things and people, resulting in [[time reversibility]].<ref name="EMILY ZEMLER" /> ''Tenet'' makes reference to physics concepts including [[annihilation]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/tenet-science-explained-entropy-time-inversion-annihilation/|title=The Science of Tenet Explained: Entropy, Annihilation & Time Inversion|author=Shaw-Williams, Hannah|access-date=2021-04-16|date=2020-09-05|publisher=[[ScreenRant]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/fml.html#3t10:0|publisher=Caltech University|title=Feynman Messenger Lecture #3 - The Great Conversation Principles|author=Feynman, Richard|access-date=2021-04-16}}</ref> the [[second law of thermodynamics]], [[Maxwell's demon]], and [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] and [[John Archibald Wheeler|Wheeler]]'s notion of a  [[one-electron universe]], but Christopher Nolan stated in the film's press notes: "we're not going to make any case for this being scientifically accurate".<ref name="EMILY ZEMLER">[https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020-09-04/science-christopher-nolan-tenet-physicist-interview How real is the science in Christopher Nolan's ''Tenet''? We asked an expert] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' EMILY ZEMLER, 2020-09-04</ref>
 
== Cast ==
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{{cast list|
* [[John David Washington]] as the Protagonist, a CIA agent<ref name="Schaeffer-May2020" /><ref name="Lodge-Aug2020" />
* [[Robert Pattinson]] as Neil, the Protagonist's [[Agent handling|handler]]<ref name="Lodge-Aug2020" />
* [[Elizabeth Debicki]] as Katherine "Kat" Barton,{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} an art appraiser and Sator's estranged wife<ref name="Lodge-Aug2020" /><ref name="Phillips-Sep2020" />
* [[Dimple Kapadia]] as Priya Singh,<ref name="Lodge-Aug2020" /> an [[Arms trafficking|arms trafficker]]<ref name="Fletcher-Aug2020" />
* [[Michael Caine]] as Sir Michael Crosby, a British Intelligence officer<ref name="Smith-Aug2020" />
* [[Kenneth Branagh]] as Andrei Sator,<ref name="Collin-Aug2020" /> a [[Russian oligarch]] who communicates with the future<ref name="Collis" /><ref name="BBC-May2020" />
* [[Martin Donovan]] as Fay,{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} the Protagonist's CIA boss<ref name="Fletcher-Aug2020" />
* [[Fiona Dourif]] as Wheeler, leader of Blue Team<ref name="Gallagher-Aug2020" />
* [[Yuri Kolokolnikov]] as Volkov, Sator's bodyguard{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}
* [[Himesh Patel]] as Mahir,<ref name="Connellan-Aug2020" /> a [[Fixer (person)|fixer]]<ref name="Gallagher-Aug2020" />
* [[Clémence Poésy]] as Barbara,<ref name="Geisinger-Sep2020" /><ref name="Felperin-Aug2020" /> a scientist<ref name="Lodge-Aug2020" />
* [[Aaron Taylor-Johnson]] as Ives,<ref name="Sandwell-Aug2020" /> a military commander<ref name="Ovenden-Aug2020" />
* [[Denzil Smith]] as Sanjay Singh, Priya's husband<ref name="MidDay"/>}}
 
== Production ==
=== Pre-production ===
Writer and director [[Christopher Nolan]] conceived the ideas behind ''Tenet'' over the course of twenty years,<ref name="Maytum-Jun2020" /> but began working on the script in 2014.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} The title is a [[palindrome]] and an allusion to the [[Sator Square]].{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}<ref name="Shone-May2020" /> Nolan made a conscious effort to abstain from any influence of the [[Spy fiction|spy genre]] other than his own memory.<ref name="MaytumShepherd-May2020-B" /> ''[[Once Upon a Time in the West]]'' (1968) inspired the screenwriting.<ref name="Maytum-Jun2020" /> Theoretical physicist [[Kip Thorne]], who worked with Nolan on ''[[Interstellar (film)|Interstellar]]'' (2014), was consulted on the subjects of time and [[quantum physics]].<ref name="Maddox-Aug2020" /> Pre-production lasted from late 2018 until early 2019, leaving department heads five months to prepare.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} Special effects supervisor [[Scott R. Fisher]] watched [[World War II]] movies and documentaries to find reference points for realism.<ref name="Martin-Aug2020" /> Production designer [[Nathan Crowley]] requested [[Hamilton Watch Company]] to manufacture around thirty military wristwatches, each analog with a digital countdown.<ref name="Wolf-Sep2020" /> Nolan and Crowley traveled to [[Location scouting|scout for locations]] in February and April 2019. Disappointed with the [[Royal Swedish Opera]] as a potential spot for the [[National Opera of Ukraine|Kyiv Opera House]], Crowley switched it to the [[Linnahall]], which fit his affinity for [[Brutalist architecture]]. Shree Vardhan Tower was chosen instead of [[Antilia (building)|Antilia]], as the latter had too high security; the [[National Liberal Club]] took the place of [[Sotheby's]], whose management refused to participate; and they chose [[Cannon Hall, Hampstead|Cannon Hall]] after Thornhill Primary School in [[Islington]] and [[Channing School]] had been deemed unsatisfactory. Prop prototypes were often [[3D printing|3D printed]]. Costume designer Jeffrey Kurland and his team cut and stitched the clothing in the United States, manufacturing them for the main cast and thousands more.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}<ref name="Lohana-May2019" />
 
=== Casting ===
[[John David Washington]], [[Robert Pattinson]], and [[Elizabeth Debicki]] were cast in March 2019.<ref name="Kroll-Mar2019-A" /><ref name="Kroll-Mar2019-B" /> Washington, Pattinson, and Debicki were each only permitted to read the screenplay while locked in a room.<ref name="Collis" /><ref name="Maytum-Jun2020" /><ref name="Sharf-Apr2019" /> Nolan chose Washington for his performance in ''[[BlacKkKlansman]]'' (2018).<ref name="Storey-May2020" /> Washington kept diaries in which he would expand the Protagonist's backstory.<ref name="Mullally-Aug2020" /> Seeing Pattinson in ''[[Good Time (film)|Good Time]]'' (2017) made a considerable impression on producer [[Emma Thomas]].{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} Pattinson based his character's mannerisms on those of author [[Christopher Hitchens]].<ref name="Baron-May2020" /> While Kat was originally going to be an older woman, Debicki's appearance in ''[[Widows (2018 film)|Widows]]'' (2018) convinced the filmmakers otherwise.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} The casting of [[Dimple Kapadia]], [[Aaron Taylor-Johnson]], [[Clémence Poésy]], [[Michael Caine]], and [[Kenneth Branagh]] was announced as filming started.<ref name="Hipes-May2019" /> Kapadia's [[screen test]] was put together by director [[Homi Adajania]] while working on his 2020 film ''[[Angrezi Medium]]''.<ref name="Masand-Feb2020" /> Poésy was pregnant with her second child at the time, something Thomas opted to keep visible.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} Caine was merely given his pages for one day of work.<ref name="Sharf-Mar2020" /> Branagh rescheduled production on his own directorial venture ''[[Death on the Nile (2022 film)|Death on the Nile]]'' (2022) to do the part, claiming to have studied the manuscript more times than any other in his career.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} [[Himesh Patel]] joined in August.<ref name="Kroll-Aug2019" /> [[Martin Donovan]] was revealed in the first trailer.<ref name="Desta-Dec2019" /> [[Fiona Dourif]] and [[Yuri Kolokolnikov]] were included later on.<ref name="WarnerBros.Pictures-Aug2020" /> Dourif's role Wheeler is a reference to theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler]].{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}
 
=== Filming ===
[[Principal photography]], involving a crew of 250 people,<ref name="Baron-May2020" /> began in May 2019 on a soundstage in [[Los Angeles]] and took place in seven countries{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}<ref name="Bankhurst-May2019" />—[[Denmark]], [[Estonia]],{{#tag:ref|Seven weeks of filming in Estonia came at a cost of €16.5{{nbsp}}million;<ref name="Collis" /><ref name="Whyte-Jun2019-B" /> Warner Bros. Pictures paid a [[Rebate (marketing)|rebate]] that was reimbursed at thirty percent.<ref name="Whyte-Jun2019-B" />|group=nb}} [[India]],{{#tag:ref|It took one week to secure the permission to shoot in Mumbai.<ref name="Seta-Oct2019" /> The planned schedule was completed in half the time.<ref name="Vyavahare-Sep2019" />|group=nb}} Italy, [[Norway]], the United Kingdom, and United States.<ref name="Vyavahare-Sep2019" />{{#tag:ref|''Tenet'' went under the [[working title]] ''Merry Go Round''.<ref name="Maytum-Jun2020" /><ref name="Seta-Oct2019" />|group=nb}} Filming in Estonia happened in June and July, with the [[Linnahall]], [[Pärnu Highway]] ([[European route E67|E67]]), and adjacent streets closed to facilitate it.<ref name="Whyte-Jun2019-C" /><ref name="Vahtla-Jun2019-A" /> [[Kumu (museum)|Kumu Art Museum]] doubled as the fictional "[[Oslo]] freeport".<ref name="Steingrimsen-Aug2020" /> Barbara's office was built in a former law court, the [[Tallinn]] Freeport exterior was at the city docks, and a room at the [[Hilton Hotels & Resorts|Hilton]] Tallinn Park Hotel was also utilized.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} Mayor [[Mihhail Kõlvart]] expressed concerns about potential disruptions as the shooting schedule required that the arterial [[Lasnamäe#Transport|Laagna Road]] be closed for one month.<ref name="Whyte-Jun2019-A" /> A compromise was eventually reached, involving temporary road closures and detours.<ref name="Cavegn-Jun2019-A" /><ref name="Vahtla-Jul2019" />
 
Scenes were shot on the [[Amalfi Coast]] (Italy), [[the Solent]], at the [[Reform Club]], [[Locanda Locatelli]], and Cannon Hall (England) from July to August,{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}<ref name="Vivarelli-Aug2019" /><ref name="CamdenNewJournal-Aug2019" /> on the roof of the [[Oslo Opera House]], at [[The Thief (hotel)|The Thief]] hotel (Norway), and in [[Rødbyhavn]] at [[Nysted Wind Farm]] (Denmark) in early September.<ref name="Steingrimsen-Aug2020" /><ref name="DrabløsAlnesTunheim-Sep2019" /><ref name="MøllerNielsen-Sep2019" /> A five-day shoot occurred later that month in [[Mumbai]],<ref name="Vyavahare-Sep2019" /> specifically [[Breach Candy Hospital]], [[Cafe Mondegar]], [[Colaba Causeway]], [[Colaba]] Market, [[Gateway of India]], [[Grant Road]], [[Royal Bombay Yacht Club]], and the [[Taj Mahal Palace Hotel]].<ref name="HindustanTimes-Aug2019" /><ref name="BandekarTahseen-Sep2019" /><ref name="HindustanTimes-Sep2019" /><ref name="TheWeek-Sep2019" /> A restaurant named "Chaand" was erected near the hotel,<ref name="BandekarTahseen-Sep2019" /> but never used, serving only as an alternative.<ref name="Vyavahare-Sep2019" /> Forty boats were positioned at the Gateway of India, where the crew rescued a man who had attempted suicide.<ref name="News18-Sep2019" /> They proceeded to Los Angeles soon after. [[Hawthorne Plaza Shopping Center]] functioned as the interior set of an [[icebreaker]] and a shipping container. The [[Victorville Airport]] was disguised as Oslo, with more than ninety extras involved.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}<ref name="Maytum-Jun2020" /> Instead of using miniatures and [[visual effects]] (VFX) for the plane crash sequence, Nolan determined that purchasing a [[Boeing 747]] proved more cost effective.<ref name="MaytumShepherd-May2020-A" /> October saw them in [[Eagle Mountain, California|Eagle Mountain]], where an abandoned town had been constructed and hundreds were clothed in [[military camouflage]] uniforms.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}<ref name="Collis" /> Over thirty buildings were prefabricated in Los Angeles and shipped to the site. Four [[Boeing CH-47 Chinook]]s were loaned out for four days. Outside shots of a tunnel were done in the desert, while the insides of the Hypocenter were fashioned on a soundstage. ''Tenet'' [[Wrap (filmmaking)|wrapped]] on November 12, after ninety-six days.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}
 
Director of photography [[Hoyte van Hoytema]] employed a combination of [[65 mm film]] and [[IMAX]],<ref name="BusinessWire-May2019" /> prioritizing [[Panavision]] lenses that would best accommodate lower light.<ref name="Martin-Aug2020" /> Segments that concerned time inversion were captured both in backward and forward mobility and speech.<ref name="Gillespie-Aug2020" /><ref name="Hutchinson-Aug2020" /> To ensure proficiency in handling firearms, Washington and Pattinson attended the Taran Tactical firing range in [[Simi Valley, California|Simi Valley]]. They also did some of their own stunts. Over one hundred watercraft were recruited, together with two [[F50 (catamaran)|F50]] [[catamaran]]s, the [[megayacht]] ''Planet Nine'' (onto which an [[Mi-8]] helicopter would land), icebreakers, [[Motorboat|speed]]- and [[fishing boat]]s, and a cargo [[Tanker (ship)|tanker]].{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} The windfarm vessel ''Iceni Revenge'' was brought through Denmark, Estonia, and Italy for all three months.<ref name="Coates-Aug2020" />
 
===Post-production===
[[Jennifer Lame]] replaced Nolan's long-time editor [[Lee Smith (film editor)|Lee Smith]], who was occupied with 2019's ''[[1917 (2019 film)|1917]]''.<ref name="Kit-Apr2019" /> Lame was tasked with unsupervised editing during the principal photography and would look at [[dailies]].{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} [[DNEG]] created about 280 VFX shots.<ref name="Maytum-Jun2020" /> Sound designer [[Richard King (sound designer)|Richard King]] sent a team to Eagle Mountain to record the Chinooks and Mi-8, and to [[Southampton]] for the [[F50 (catamaran)|F50]] catamarans. Others were hired for the aural atmosphere of Oslo, Mumbai, and Tallinn. King got the audio of both live and blank automatic weapon rounds at a gun range in [[San Francisquito Canyon]] and rented a runway to test how the vehicles sounded.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}}
 
==Music==
{{See also|Tenet: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack}}
 
[[Ludwig Göransson]] was chosen as the composer as Nolan's frequent collaborator [[Hans Zimmer]] had committed himself to the 2021 film ''[[Dune (2021 film)|Dune]]''.<ref name="Stolworthy-May2019" /><ref name="Barfield-Jul2019" /> During the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Göransson recorded musicians at their homes.<ref name="Collis" /> Researching [[Retrograde (music)|retrograde composition]] caused him to generate melodies that would sound the same forward and backward. He experimented with distorted [[industrial noise]] and, to represent Sator's irradiated breathing, asked Nolan to tape his own in studio. Göransson produced ten to fifteen minutes of music each week. The first scoring session was held in November 2019, continuing into early 2020.{{sfn|Mottram|2020}} The ''Tenet'' soundtrack contains "[[The Plan (Travis Scott song)|The Plan]]," a song by [[Travis Scott]],<ref name="Langford-Aug2020" /> which plays over the film's closing credits.
 
== Release ==
===Theatrical===
Warner Bros. originally scheduled ''Tenet'' for a July 17, 2020, release in IMAX, [[35 mm movie film|35 mm]], and 70&nbsp;mm film.<ref name="Sharf-Dec2019" /> Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was first delayed to July 31,<ref name="D'Alessandro-Jun2020" /><ref name="McClintock-Jun2020" /> and subsequently August 12.<ref name="Rubin-Jun2020" /> Executives calculated that each postponement cost Warner Bros. between $200,000 and $400,000 in marketing fees.<ref name="Rubin-Jul2020-A" /> After briefly being held up indefinitely,<ref name="D'Alessandro-Jul2020" /> Warner Bros. arranged the film to be released internationally on August 26 in seventy countries, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United Kingdom.<ref name="Rubin-Jul2020-B" /> Preview screenings commenced in Australia and South Korea on August 22 and 23.<ref name="Flicks-Aug2020" /><ref name="Tartaglione-Aug2020-B" /> It moved to select cities in the United States on September 3, gradually expanding in the ensuing weeks.<ref name="Rubin-Jul2020-B" /> On September 4, it came out in China.<ref name="Tartaglione-Aug2020-A" /> ''Tenet'' became the first Hollywood [[Tent-pole (entertainment)|tent-pole]] to [[Wide release|launch in theaters]] following their prolonged shutdown.<ref name="Roxborough-Sep2020" /> The lack of available movies afforded it more screens per [[Multiplex (movie theater)|multiplex]] than would otherwise be possible.<ref name="Littleton-Sep2020" />
 
===Home media===
It became available on [[4K Ultra HD]], [[Blu-ray]], [[DVD]], and digital services on December 15, 2020.<ref name="Rubin-Nov2020-B" /> On March 2, 2021, Warner Bros. announced that in light of the New York state government allowing movie theaters in New York City to re-open the following Friday (March 5) following a nearly year-long shutdown (causing theaters in the city to miss out on the film's initial theatrical run), they would be re-releasing ''Tenet'' at select theaters in the city that same day.<ref name="D'Alessandro-Mar2021" /> ''Tenet'' was released on [[HBO Max]] on May 1, 2021.<ref name="Lattanzio-Mar2021" />
 
== Reception ==
=== Box office ===
''Tenet'' grossed $58.5{{nbsp}}million in the United States and Canada, and $305.2{{nbsp}}million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $363.7{{nbsp}}million.<ref name="BOM" /><ref name="TheNumbers" /> With a production budget of $200{{nbsp}}million,<ref name="RubinVary-Jan2020" /> ''Tenet'' is Nolan's most expensive original project.<ref name="Sharf-Jan2020" /> ''[[IndieWire]]'' speculated that the marketing could push the final sum to $300–350{{nbsp}}million,<ref name="Brueggemann-May2020" /> though analysts predicted lower advertising costs than usual, owing to inexpensive live sports ads.<ref name="KeeganMcClintock-Jul2020" /> Box office analyst Jeff Bock estimated it would need to make $400–$500{{nbsp}}million in order to [[break even]].<ref name="Katz-Apr2020" /> In November 2020, rival studios expected the film to lose up to $100{{nbsp}}million, but Warner Bros. insisted losses would not top $50{{nbsp}}million.<ref name="Rubin-Nov2020-A" /> Nolan was reported to receive twenty percent of the [[first-dollar gross]].<ref name="D'Alessandro-May2020" />
 
''Tenet'' was projected to take $25–30{{nbsp}}million internationally over its first five days.<ref name="Tartaglione-Aug2020-C" /> In South Korea, pre-sale IMAX tickets sold out and weekend previews totaled $717,000 from 590 venues.<ref name="Tartaglione-Aug2020-B" /> Another four days there yielded $4.13{{nbsp}}million from about 2,200 screens, bringing the cume to $5.1{{nbsp}}million by the end of the week. The film debuted to $53{{nbsp}}million in forty-one countries, grossing $7.1{{nbsp}}million in the United Kingdom, $6.7{{nbsp}}million in France, and $4.2{{nbsp}}million in Germany.<ref name="Rubin-Aug2020" /><ref name="Tartaglione-Aug2020-D" /><ref name="D'Alessandro-Sep2020-A" /> ''Tenet'' made $58.1{{nbsp}}million in its second weekend, with China ($30{{nbsp}}million from first showings), the U.K. ($13.1{{nbsp}}million), France ($10.7{{nbsp}}million), Germany ($8.7{{nbsp}}million), and South Korea ($8.2{{nbsp}}million) as its largest markets.<ref name="Tartaglione-Sep2020-A" /> Its third weekend garnered $30.6{{nbsp}}million, comprising $16.4{{nbsp}}million from the U.K., $13.2{{nbsp}}million from France, $11.4{{nbsp}}million from Germany, $10.3{{nbsp}}million from South Korea, and $10.2{{nbsp}}million from China.<ref name="Tartaglione-Sep2020-B" /> Two weeks in Japan accumulated $11.4{{nbsp}}million.<ref name="Schilling-Oct2020" /> ''Tenet'' opened in India on December 4, 2020,<ref name="Rawat-Nov2020" /> and made about $1.2 million in the first ten days.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kaushal|first=Sweta|title=India Box Office: Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Surpasses $1 Million In 10 Days|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/swetakaushal/2020/12/15/india-box-office-nolans-tenet-crosses-1-million-in-10-days/|access-date=2021-07-13|website=Forbes|language=en}}</ref> ''Tenet'' became the highest-grossing film of all time in [[Estonia]], with a total gross of $1.2 million.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-10-04|title=GLOBAL REPORT: Tenet Crosses $300M Worldwide, Soft Drops Continue as Domestic Reaches $45M; Hocus Pocus Surprises; China's Market Remains Strong in Recovery|url=https://www.boxofficepro.com/global-report-tenet-crosses-300m-worldwide-threshold-continues-soft-drops-as-domestic-reaches-45m-hocus-pocus-china/|access-date=2021-01-17|website=Boxoffice|language=en-US|archive-date=October 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201007070804/https://www.boxofficepro.com/global-report-tenet-crosses-300m-worldwide-threshold-continues-soft-drops-as-domestic-reaches-45m-hocus-pocus-china/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
With 65% of American and Canadian theaters operating at 25–40% capacity, the first eleven days acquired $20.2{{nbsp}}million from 2,810 theaters; $2.5{{nbsp}}million in Canada, $12{{nbsp}}million in the U.S., and the rest from previews.<ref name="D'Alessandro-Sep2020-A" /><ref name="D'Alessandro-Sep2020-B" /> The second, third, and fourth weekends added $6.7{{nbsp}}million, $4.7{{nbsp}}million, and $3.4{{nbsp}}million, respectively.<ref name="D'Alessandro-Sep2020-C" /><ref name="D'Alessandro-Sep2020-D" /><ref name="D'Alessandro-Sep2020-E" /> ''Tenet'' remained atop the box office in its fifth weekend with $2.7{{nbsp}}million,<ref name="D'Alessandro-Oct2020-A" /> before ceding to ''[[The War with Grandpa]]'' in its sixth weekend.<ref name="D'Alessandro-Oct2020-B" />
 
=== Critical response ===
On review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]], 70% of 353 critics gave ''Tenet'' a positive review, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "A visually dazzling puzzle for film lovers to unlock, ''Tenet'' serves up all the cerebral spectacle audiences expect from a Christopher Nolan production."<ref name="RottenTomatoes">{{cite Rotten Tomatoes |id=tenet |title=Tenet|type=m|accessdate=June 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210104123345/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tenet|archive-date=January 4, 2021|url-status=live }}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a [[weighted arithmetic mean|weighted average score]] of 69 out of 100 based on 50 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref name="Metacritic">{{cite mc |id=tenet |type=movie |title=Tenet |access-date=January 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231024306/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/tenet|archive-date=December 31, 2020|url-status=live }}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale,<ref name="Lattanzio-Sep2020" /> and [[PostTrak]] reported 80% of those gave the film a positive score, with 65% saying they would recommend it.<ref name="D'Alessandro-Sep2020-C" /> Keith Phillips of ''[[The Ringer (website)|The Ringer]]'' wrote that ''Tenet'' has the makings of a [[cult film]]: "With a failed release due to the pandemic, a muted critical reception, and a twisty narrative that demands multiple viewings, Christopher Nolan's 2020 film has all of the elements that eventually lead to niche fandom."<ref name="Phipps-Jan2021">{{Cite web|last=Phipps|first=Keith|date=2021-01-26|title='Tenet' Is Destined to Become a Cult Movie|url=https://www.theringer.com/movies/2021/1/26/22249447/tenet-is-a-cult-movie-christopher-nolan-pandemic|access-date=2021-01-26|website=The Ringer|language=en|archive-date=February 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210094732/https://www.theringer.com/movies/2021/1/26/22249447/tenet-is-a-cult-movie-christopher-nolan-pandemic|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Guy Lodge of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' described ''Tenet'' as a "grandly entertaining, time-slipping spectacle."<ref name="Lodge-Aug2020" /> ''[[The Guardian]]'' critic [[Peter Bradshaw]] felt it was both "madly preposterous" and "amazing cinema".<ref name="Bradshaw-Aug2020" /> [[Kevin Maher (writer)|Kevin Maher]] of ''[[The Times]]'' awarded the film a full five stars, deeming it "a delightfully convoluted masterpiece."<ref name="Maher-Aug2020" /> [[Robbie Collin]] of ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'' likened it to Nolan's ''Inception'' and praised the "depth, subtlety and wit of Pattinson and Debicki's performances."<ref name="Collin-Aug2020" /> In his review for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', [[Peter Travers]] praised the film for being "pure, ravishing cinema", and praised Washington's performance, calling him a "star-in-the-making" and writing, "A former football running back, the actor brings a natural athletic grace to the stunts and hand-to-hand combat that forge a visceral bond between his character and the audience."<ref name="Travers-Aug2020" /> A review for ''[[The Dispatch]]'' called ''Tenet'' "the perfect movie to mark the return of theaters because it captures so much of what makes the medium of cinema great."<ref name="Dent-Sep2020" /> [[James Berardinelli]] noted that, "[''Tenet''] may be the most challenging of Nolan's films to date when it comes to wrapping one's mind around the concepts forming the narrative's foundation: backwards-moving entropy, non-linear thinking, temporal paradoxes ... The film contains some of Nolan's most ambitious action sequences to-date but one wonders whether the plot density—a not inconsiderable obstacle for some who prefer not to devote their undivided attention for {{frac|2|1|2}} hours—might prove to be problematic."<ref name="Berardinelli-Aug2020" /> Mark Daniell of the ''[[Toronto Sun]]'' gave the film four out of four stars, deeming it "the cinematic equivalent of a [[Rubik's Cube]], presented in towering Imax and featuring a polished cast set amidst some of the world's most gorgeous locations."<ref name="Daniell-Aug2020" /> [[Richard Roeper]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave it {{frac|3|1|2}} out of 4 stars, and noted that the movie "reaches for cinematic greatness and, though it doesn't quite reach that lofty goal, it's the kind of film that reminds us of the magic of the moviegoing experience."<ref name="Roeper-Aug2020" />
 
Jessica Kiang of ''[[The New York Times]]'' described it as Nolan's "time-bending" take on [[James Bond]], praising the film's cinematography, score, editing, acting and "immaculately creaseless costumes", while also deeming it a "hugely expensive, blissfully empty spectacle".<ref name="Kiang-Aug2020" /> ''[[LA Weekly]]''{{'}}s Asher Luberto also highlighted the similarities between ''Tenet'' and the [[Production of the James Bond films|James Bond films]], but also felt it was "a daring, surprising and entirely original piece of work, reverent in its spectacle and haunting in its mesmerizing, dreamlike form."<ref name="Luberto-Sep2020" /> Branagh's Andrei Sator was described by some critics as a stereotypical [[Stereotype#Role in art and culture|Russian villain]].<ref name="Sarkisian-Aug2020" /><ref name="Tallerico-Aug2020" /> Christina Newland of ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' noted that Sator is "played by a silly-accented Kenneth Branagh as a Bond-villain-esque Russian mastermind."<ref name="Newland-Aug2020" /> Leslie Felperin of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' felt Washington was "dashing but a little dull," but remarked that Debicki's performance "adds a color to Nolan's palette, and [she] has persuasive chemistry with Branagh in their joint portrait of a violent, dysfunctional love-hate relationship." She further concluded that ''Tenet'' makes "for a chilly, cerebral film—easy to admire, especially since it's so rich in audacity and originality, but almost impossible to love, lacking as it is in a certain humanity."<ref name="Felperin-Aug2020" />
 
Mike McCahill of ''IndieWire'' noted that it was "the summer's most keenly awaited event movie" but gave it a "C-" grade and called it "a humorless disappointment".<ref name="McCahill-Aug2020" /> Poor [[sound mixing]] on 35&nbsp;mm movie film "often" rendered dialog inaudible, stated Brian Lloyd of ''[[Entertainment.ie]]''; viewing the film on [[Digital Cinema Package]] files reduced the problem.<ref name="Lloyd-Aug2020" /> [[Michael Phillips (critic)|Michael Phillips]] of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' awarded the film 2 out of 4 stars, writing, "I wish ''Tenet'' exploited its own ideas more dynamically. Nolan's a prodigious talent. But no major director, I suppose, can avoid going sideways from time to time."<ref name="Phillips-Aug2020" /> ''[[New York Post]]''{{'}}s Johnny Oleksinski also gave it 2 out of 4 stars, calling it Nolan's most "confusing" work so far, but acknowledged being "swept up by Nolan's incomparable cinematic vision. He is one of the few directors working today who consistently churns out visually seismic, sophisticated action films".<ref name="Oleksinski-Aug2020" /> Kathleen Sachs of the ''[[Chicago Reader]]'' gave it {{frac|1|1|2}} out of 4 stars, concluding that Nolan "doesn't show much growth in his most recent self-indulgent work."<ref name="Sachs-Sep2020" />
 
=== Accolades ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Ceremonies
! Year(s)
! Categories
! Recipients/nominees
! Results
! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Academy Awards]]
| rowspan="2"| [[93rd Academy Awards|2021]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Production Design]]
| Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2"| <ref name="Oscars">{{cite web|url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/15/the-full-list-of-2021-oscar-nominations|title= The full list of 2021 Oscar nominations|date=15 March 2021|work=Guardian|access-date= 15 March 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Visual Effects|Best Visual Effects]]
| [[Andrew Jackson (visual effects)|Andrew Jackson]], David Lee, [[Andrew Lockley]] and [[Scott R. Fisher|Scott Fisher]]
| {{Won}}
|-
| [[ADG Excellence in Production Design Award|Art Directors Guild Awards]]
| [[Art Directors Guild Awards 2020|2021]]
| [[Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film|Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film]]
| [[Nathan Crowley]]
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://adg.org/awards/adg/nominees/2021/|title=2021 ADG AWARDS NOMINEES|work=[[Art Directors Guild]]|access-date= March 4, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[British Academy Film Awards]]
| [[74th British Academy Film Awards|2021]]
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects|Best Special Visual Effects]]
| Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson and Andrew Lockley
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bafta.org/film/awards/2021-nominations-winners|title=2021 EE British Academy Film Awards: The Nominations|website=[[BAFTA]]|date=March 9, 2021|access-date=9 March 2021}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="5"| [[Critics' Choice Awards]]
| rowspan="5"| [[26th Critics' Choice Awards|2021]]
| Best Cinematography
| [[Hoyte van Hoytema]]
| {{nominated}}
| rowspan="5"| <ref name="cc">{{cite web|url=http://www.criticschoice.com/2021/02/film-nominations-announced-for-the-26th-annual-critics-choice-awards/|title=Film nominees for the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards have been announced|access-date=February 11, 2021|date=February 8, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| Best Editing
| [[Jennifer Lame]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
| Best Production Design
| [[Nathan Crowley]] and Kathy Lucas
| {{nominated}}
|-
| Best Score
| [[Ludwig Göransson]]
| {{nominated}}
|-
| Best Visual Effects
| ''Tenet''
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Critics' Choice Super Awards]]
| rowspan="2"| [[1st Critics' Choice Super Awards|2021]]
| Best Action Movie
| ''Tenet''
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2"|<ref name="ccs">{{Cite web|url=https://criticschoice.com/critics-choice-super-awards/|title=Critics Choice Super Awards &#124; Critics Choice Awards|access-date=December 18, 2020|archive-date=December 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201081405/https://criticschoice.com/critics-choice-super-awards/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| Best Actor in an Action Movie
| [[John David Washington]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| Golden Angel Award in [[Chinese American Film Festival]]
| 2020
| Most Popular U.S. Film in China
| ''Tenet''
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202011/12/WS5fac7a04a31024ad0ba9386b.html|title=Show goes online for Chinese-American film, TV events|website=www.chinadaily.com.cn|access-date=December 18, 2020|archive-date=November 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125164523/http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202011/12/WS5fac7a04a31024ad0ba9386b.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Golden Globe Awards]]
| [[78th Golden Globe Awards|2021]]
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]]
| Ludwig Göransson
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees|title=Winners & Nominees 2021|website=www.goldenglobes.com|language=en|access-date=2021-02-09|archive-date=August 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802210349/https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Hollywood Music in Media Awards]]
| rowspan="2"| [[11th Hollywood Music in Media Awards|2021]]
| [[Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score in a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film|Best Original Score in a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film]]
| Ludwig Göransson
| {{won}}
| rowspan="2"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/awards/9517388/diane-warren-james-newton-howard-winners-2021-hollywood-music-in-media-awards/|title=Diane Warren & James Newton Howard Among Top Winners at 2021 Hollywood Music in Media Awards|date=January 27, 2021|accessdate=January 28, 2021|work=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|first=Paul|last=Grein}}</ref>
|-
| [[Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Song in a Feature Film|Best Original Song in a Feature Film]]
| "[[The Plan (Travis Scott song)|The Plan]]" – [[Travis Scott|Jacques Webster II]], [[WondaGurl|Ebony Naomi Oshunrinde]] and Ludwig Göransson
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Hugo Award]]s
| 2021
| [[Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation|Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form]]
| [[Christopher Nolan]]
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{cite web |title=2021 Hugo Awards |date=January 2021 |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2021-hugo-awards/ |publisher=World Science Fiction Society |access-date=2021-04-13}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Motion Picture Sound Editors|Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards]]
| rowspan="2"| 2021
| [[Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley for Feature Film|Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley for Feature Film]]
| [[Richard King (sound designer)|Richard King]], Joseph Fraioli, Mark Larry, Michael W. Mitchell, Angela Ang, Bruce Tanis, John Cucci, Catherine Harper, Alyson Dee Moore, Chris Moriana, Dan O'Connell, Shelley Roden, John Roesch and Katie Rose
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2021/03/golden-reel-awards-2021-nominations-sound-editors-mpse-1234704003/ |title=Sound Editors Nominate 'Wonder Woman', 'Sound Of Metal', 'Tenet' & Others For Golden Reel Awards – Full List |author=Erik Pederson |date= March 1, 2021 | website= [[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]] | publisher=[[Penske Media Corporation|Variety Media, LLC.]] |accessdate= March 1, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Underscore|Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Underscore]]
| [[Alex Gibson (sound editor)|Alex Gibson]] and Nicholas Fitzgerald
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[People's Choice Awards]]
| rowspan="2"| [[46th People's Choice Awards|2020]]
| Favorite Action Movie
| ''Tenet''
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2"| <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/here-are-nominees-2020-people-s-choice-awards-t192942|title=Here are the nominees for the 2020 People's Choice Awards|website=TODAY.com|access-date=December 18, 2020|archive-date=November 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128211936/https://www.today.com/popculture/here-are-nominees-2020-people-s-choice-awards-t192942|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| Favorite Action Movie Star
| John David Washington
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="5"| [[Satellite Awards]]
| rowspan="5"| [[25th Satellite Awards|2021]]
| [[Satellite Award for Best Film|Best Motion Picture – Drama]]
| ''Tenet''
| {{nominated}}
| rowspan="5"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pressacademy.com/news/25th-satellite-awards-nominees-for-motion-pictures-and-television-announced/ |title=25th Satellite Awards Nominees for Motion Pictures and Television Announced |last=Van Blaricom|first=Mirjana |date=February 1, 2021 |publisher=[[International Press Academy]] |access-date=February 1, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[Satellite Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
| Hoyte van Hoytema
| {{nominated}}
|-
| [[Satellite Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]]
| Ludwig Göransson
| {{nominated}}
|-
| [[Satellite Award for Best Sound|Best Sound (Editing and Mixing)]]
| Willie D. Burton, Richard King, Kevin O'Connell & Gary A.Rizzo
| {{nominated}}
|-
| [[Satellite Award for Best Visual Effects|Best Visual Effects]]
| [[Andrew Jackson (visual effects)|Andrew Jackson]]
| {{win}}
|-
| rowspan="9"| [[Saturn Awards]]
| rowspan="9"| [[46th Saturn Awards|2021]]
| [[Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film|Best Science Fiction Film]]
| ''Tenet''
| {{pending}}
| rowspan=9|<ref>{{cite web | date=March 4, 2021 | last=Hipes | first=Patrick | title=Saturn Awards Nominations: 'Star Wars: Rise Of Skywalker', 'Tenet', 'Walking Dead', 'Outlander' Lead List | website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] | url=https://deadline.com/2021/03/saturn-awards-nominations-2021-nominees-list-1234706492/ | access-date=March 5, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Christopher Nolan
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Writing|Best Writing]]
| Christopher Nolan
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| John David Washington
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| [[Robert Pattinson]]
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Editing|Best Editing]]
| Jennifer Lame
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Music|Best Music]]
| Ludwig Göransson
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Production Design|Best Production Design]]
| Nathan Crowley
| {{pending}}
|-
| [[Saturn Award for Best Special Effects|Best Special / Visual Effects]]
| Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley, Scott R. Fisher, Mike Chambers
| {{pending}}
|-
| Set Decorators Society of America Awards
| [[Set Decorators Society of America Awards 2020|2021]]
| Best Achievement in Décor/Design of a Science Fiction or Fantasy Feature Film
| Kathy Lucas and Nathan Crowley
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|last=Grobar|first=Matt|title=Set Decorators Society Of America Awards: David Fincher's 'Mank' Tops Winners List With Best Picture & Best Period Design|url=https://deadline.com/2021/04/set-decorators-society-of-america-awards-mank-winners-list-1234726670/|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|access-date=June 23, 2021|date=April 1, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[Visual Effects Society|Visual Effects Society Awards]]
| [[19th Visual Effects Society Awards|2021]]
| [[Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature|Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature]]
| [[Andrew Jackson (visual effects)|Andrew Jackson]], Mike Chambers, [[Andrew Lockley]], David Lee, [[Scott R. Fisher|Scott Fisher]]
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.visualeffectssociety.com/press-releases/19th-annual-ves-awards-nominees/|title=Visual Effects Society Announces Nominees for 19th Annual VES Awards|date=March 1, 2021|access-date=March 2, 2021}}</ref>
|}
 
Glenn Whipp of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' noted that Warner Bros. did not put ''Tenet'' on the [[Academy Awards|Academy]]'s streaming platform or send out screeners to awards voters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2021-03-12/oscar-nominations-2021-complete-predictions|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=March 13, 2021|title=Oscar nominations 2021: Complete predictions in all 23 categories|first=Glenn|last=Whipp}}</ref>
 
== Notes ==
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== References ==
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<ref name="Kit-Apr2019">{{cite web |last=Kit |first=Borys |date=April 5, 2019 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/christopher-nolan-taps-hereditarys-jennifer-lame-new-movie-1197862 |title=Christopher Nolan Taps 'Hereditary' Editor Jennifer Lame for His New Movie (Exclusive) |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190607190351/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/christopher-nolan-taps-hereditarys-jennifer-lame-new-movie-1197862 |archive-date=June 7, 2019 |access-date=July 15, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="BusinessWire-May2019">{{cite web |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190522005664/en/ |title=Filming is Underway on "Tenet," a New Film from Christopher Nolan |publisher=[[Business Wire]] |date=May 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190526041050/https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190522005664/en/ |archive-date=May 26, 2019 |access-date=July 15, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Hipes-May2019">{{cite web |last=Hipes |first=Patrick |date=May 22, 2019 |url=https://deadline.com/2019/05/christopher-nolan-tenet-movie-cast-release-date-1202620596/ |title=Christopher Nolan's New Movie Gets A Title, Final Cast As Shooting Begins |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190607191656/https://deadline.com/2019/05/christopher-nolan-tenet-movie-cast-release-date-1202620596/ |archive-date=June 7, 2019 |access-date=July 15, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Bankhurst-May2019">{{cite web |last=Bankhurst |first=Adam |date=May 22, 2019 |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/05/22/christopher-nolan-begins-filming-new-espionage-action-movie-tenet |title=Christopher Nolan Begins Filming New Espionage Action Movie, Tenet |website=[[IGN]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190607191201/https://nordic.ign.com/christopher-nolan/25462/news/christopher-nolan-begins-filming-new-espionage-action-movie-tenet |archive-date=June 7, 2019 |access-date=July 15, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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<ref name="Vahtla-Jun2019-A">{{cite web |last=Vahtla |first=Aili |date=June 11, 2019 |url=https://news.err.ee/951234/gallery-christopher-nolan-john-david-washington-arrive-in-tallinn |title=Gallery: Christopher Nolan, John David Washington arrive in Tallinn |website=ERR |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190614133043/https://news.err.ee/951234/gallery-christopher-nolan-john-david-washington-arrive-in-tallinn |archive-date=June 14, 2019 |access-date=July 15, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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<ref name="D'Alessandro-Jul2020">{{cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=July 20, 2020 |url=https://deadline.com/2020/07/tenet-release-date-moved-new-strategy-coronavirus-1202970413/ |title='Tenet' Undated For Now: Warner Bros. To Announce New Date "Imminently", Pic's Theatrical Global Rollout Won't Be "Traditional" |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720164827/https://deadline.com/2020/07/tenet-release-date-moved-new-strategy-coronavirus-1202970413/ |archive-date=July 20, 2020 |access-date=July 20, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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<ref name="Martin-Aug2020">{{cite magazine |last=Martin |first=Kevin H. |date=August 2020 |url=https://issuu.com/icgmagazine/docs/august2020?fr=sODY1ZDMyMjE0 |title=Time, Again |magazine=[[ICG Magazine]] |volume=91 |number=6 |pages=43–46 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200824172916/https://issuu.com/icgmagazine/docs/august2020?fr=sODY1ZDMyMjE0 |archive-date=August 24, 2020 |access-date=August 24, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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<ref name="Gillespie-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Gillespie |first=Daniel |date=August 12, 2020 |url=https://screenrant.com/tenet-movie-scenes-filmed-forward-backward-christopher-nolan/ |title=Christopher Nolan Shot Tenet Scenes Twice&nbsp;– Once Forward & Once Backward |website=[[Screen Rant]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200814122214/https://screenrant.com/tenet-movie-scenes-filmed-forward-backward-christopher-nolan/ |archive-date=August 14, 2020 |access-date=August 14, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Flicks-Aug2020">{{cite web |url=https://www.flicks.com.au/news/tenet-is-having-previous-screenings-the-weekend-before-its-release/ |title=There'll be preview screenings of Tenet the weekend before its release |website=Flicks.com.au |date=August 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200820130258/https://www.flicks.com.au/news/tenet-is-having-previous-screenings-the-weekend-before-its-release/ |archive-date=August 20, 2020 |access-date=August 20, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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<ref name="Felperin-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Felperin |first=Leslie |date=August 21, 2020 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tenet-film-review |title='Tenet': Film Review |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200822003115/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tenet-film-review |archive-date=August 22, 2020 |access-date=August 21, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="McCahill-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=McCahill |first=Mike |date=August 21, 2020 |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2020/08/tenet-review-1234581454/ |title='Tenet' Review: Christopher Nolan's Long-Anticipated Time Caper Is a Humorless Disappointment |website=[[IndieWire]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200822052140/https://www.indiewire.com/2020/08/tenet-review-1234581454/ |archive-date=August 22, 2020 |access-date=August 21, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Smith-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Anna |date=August 21, 2020 |url=https://deadline.com/2020/08/tenet-review-christopher-nolan-john-david-washington-robert-pattinson-1203020043/ |title='Tenet' Review: James Bond Types Are Thrown Into Confounding Sci-Fi Plot In A Christopher Nolan Film You Can Miss |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200826141343/https://deadline.com/2020/08/tenet-review-christopher-nolan-john-david-washington-robert-pattinson-1203020043/ |archive-date=August 26, 2020 |access-date=August 26, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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<ref name="Steingrimsen-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Steingrimsen |first=Morten Andreas |date=August 22, 2020 |url=https://www.vg.no/rampelys/film/i/RRPmor/derfor-valgte-stjerneregissoeren-oslo |title=Derfor valgte stjerneregissøren Oslo |trans-title=That is why the star director chose Oslo |work=[[Verdens Gang]] |language=no |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200822115409/https://www.vg.no/rampelys/film/i/RRPmor/derfor-valgte-stjerneregissoeren-oslo |archive-date=August 22, 2020 |access-date=August 22, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Maddox-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Maddox |first=Garry |date=August 22, 2020 |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/the-biggest-film-i-ve-done-christopher-nolan-on-the-secret-world-of-tenet-20200810-p55kd7.html |title='The biggest film I've done': Christopher Nolan on the secret world of Tenet |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200823045301/https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/the-biggest-film-i-ve-done-christopher-nolan-on-the-secret-world-of-tenet-20200810-p55kd7.html |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |access-date=August 23, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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<ref name="Sarkisian-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Sarkisian |first=Jacob |date=August 24, 2020 |url=https://www.insider.com/tenet-review-confusing-dull-thriller-2020-8 |title='Tenet' is super slick and full of ambition, but forgets to be a thriller |website=[[Insider.com]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200903212816/https://www.insider.com/tenet-review-confusing-dull-thriller-2020-8 |archive-date=September 3, 2020 |access-date=September 3, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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<ref name="Daniell-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Daniell |first=Mark |date=August 25, 2020 |url=https://torontosun.com/entertainment/movies/tenet-review-christopher-nolan-adds-plenty-of-twists-to-spy-genre-with-time-bending-thriller/wcm/13a30a42-4c91-4f71-bd2f-424b6c8da614/ |title='Tenet' review: Christopher Nolan adds plenty of twists to spy genre with time-bending thriller |work=[[Toronto Sun]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200831094056/https://torontosun.com/entertainment/movies/tenet-review-christopher-nolan-adds-plenty-of-twists-to-spy-genre-with-time-bending-thriller/wcm/13a30a42-4c91-4f71-bd2f-424b6c8da614/ |archive-date=August 31, 2020 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Newland-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Newland |first=Christina |date=August 25, 2020 |url=https://www.vulture.com/2020/08/tenet-movie-review-christopher-nolan-s-locked-puzzle-box.html |title=Tenet Is a Locked Puzzle Box With Nothing Inside |website=[[Vulture.com]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200826054410/https://www.vulture.com/2020/08/tenet-movie-review-christopher-nolan-s-locked-puzzle-box.html |archive-date=August 26, 2020 |access-date=September 3, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Sandwell-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Sandwell |first=Ian |date=August 26, 2020 |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a33653670/tenet-ending-explained-spoilers/ |title=Tenet ending explained: Unravelling the mysteries of Christopher Nolan's spy thriller |website=[[Digital Spy]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200826141857/https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a33653670/tenet-ending-explained-spoilers/ |archive-date=August 26, 2020 |access-date=August 26, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="WarnerBros.Pictures-Aug2020">{{cite web |author=[[Warner Bros. Pictures]] |date=August 26, 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0hCSxqnjT0 |title=TENET- Behind the Scenes Exclusive |website=[[YouTube]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200830132924/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0hCSxqnjT0 |archive-date=August 30, 2020 |access-date=August 30, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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<ref name="Coates-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Coates |first=Liz |date=August 26, 2020 |url=https://www.edp24.co.uk/business/norfolk-craft-is-hero-boat-in-christopher-nolan-s-tenet-1-6809919 |title=How Norfolk grabbed a slice of the seafaring action in new Tenet blockbuster |work=[[Eastern Daily Press]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200827094933/https://www.edp24.co.uk/business/norfolk-craft-is-hero-boat-in-christopher-nolan-s-tenet-1-6809919 |archive-date=August 27, 2020 |access-date=August 27, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Roeper-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Roeper |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Roeper |date=August 26, 2020 |url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/platform/amp/movies-and-tv/2020/8/26/21403010/tenet-review-christopher-nolan-john-david-washington-movie |title='Tenet' a mind-bending blast in a time zone of its own |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200831071740/https://chicago.suntimes.com/platform/amp/movies-and-tv/2020/8/26/21403010/tenet-review-christopher-nolan-john-david-washington-movie |archive-date=August 31, 2020 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Phillips-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Phillips |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Phillips (critic) |date=August 26, 2020 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/michael-phillips/sc-mov-tenet-review-0826-20200826-x5zaoi4o7faq3b3c4tx27b3e4i-story.html |title='Tenet' review: Saving the world, backwards, makes for an uneven Christopher Nolan thriller |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200831094632/https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/michael-phillips/sc-mov-tenet-review-0826-20200826-x5zaoi4o7faq3b3c4tx27b3e4i-story.html |archive-date=August 31, 2020 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Tallerico-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Tallerico |first=Brian |date=August 26, 2020 |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tenet-movie-review-2020 |title=Tenet movie review & film summary (2020) |website=[[RogerEbert.com]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200903213247/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tenet-movie-review-2020 |archive-date=September 3, 2020 |access-date=September 3, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Fletcher-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Fletcher |first=Rosie |date=August 27, 2020 |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/tenet-meaning-explained/ |title=Tenet Meaning Explained: Putting the Title in the Context of the Movie |website=[[Den of Geek]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200828104405/https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/tenet-meaning-explained/ |archive-date=August 28, 2020 |access-date=August 28, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Ovenden-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Ovenden |first=Olivia |date=August 27, 2020 |url=https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/film/a33753331/tenet-explained-ending/ |title=The Ending{{nbsp}}– Or Is It, The Beginning?{{nbsp}}– Of 'Tenet', Explained |work=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200828104631/https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/film/a33753331/tenet-explained-ending/ |archive-date=August 28, 2020 |access-date=August 28, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Maher-Aug2020">{{cite news |last=Maher |first=Kevin |author-link=Kevin Maher (writer) |date=August 28, 2020 |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/times2/tenet-review-a-delightfully-convoluted-masterpiece-lsqx2gp7l |title=Tenet review — a delightfully convoluted masterpiece |work=[[The Times]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200828140007/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/times2/tenet-review-a-delightfully-convoluted-masterpiece-lsqx2gp7l |archive-date=August 28, 2020 |access-date=August 28, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Berardinelli-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Berardinelli |first=James |author-link=James Berardinelli |date=August 28, 2020 |url=https://www.reelviews.net/reelviews/tenet |title=Tenet (United Kingdom/United States, 2020) |website=Reelviews |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200831093727/https://www.reelviews.net/reelviews/tenet |archive-date=August 31, 2020 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Travers-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Travers |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Travers |date=August 28, 2020 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/tenet-movie-review-christopher-nolan-1047641/ |title='Tenet' Review: Christopher Nolan's Knockout Arrives Right on Time |work=[[Rolling Stone]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200830073550/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/tenet-movie-review-christopher-nolan-1047641/ |archive-date=August 30, 2020 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Gallagher-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Gallagher |first=Simon |date=August 28, 2020 |url=https://screenrant.com/tenet-movie-cast-character-guide-nolan/ |title=Tenet Cast Guide: Where You Recognize The Actors From |website=[[Screen Rant]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200829105200/https://screenrant.com/tenet-movie-cast-character-guide-nolan/ |archive-date=August 29, 2020 |access-date=August 29, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Lloyd-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Lloyd |first=Brian |date=August 28, 2020 |url=https://entertainment.ie/cinema/movie-news/tenet-sound-mixing-460957/ |title=Yes, the sound mixing in 'Tenet' is terrible |website=[[Entertainment.ie]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200830052337/https://entertainment.ie/cinema/movie-news/tenet-sound-mixing-460957/ |archive-date=August 30, 2020 |access-date=August 30, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Rubin-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |date=August 30, 2020 |url=https://variety.com/2020/film/box-office/tenet-box-office-international-christopher-nolan-1234753966/ |title=Box Office: Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet' Enjoys Surprisingly Strong Debut Overseas |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200830173955/https://variety.com/2020/film/box-office/tenet-box-office-international-christopher-nolan-1234753966/ |archive-date=August 30, 2020 |access-date=August 30, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="Hutchinson-Aug2020">{{cite web |last=Hutchinson |first=Sam |date=August 30, 2020 |url=https://screenrant.com/tenet-christopher-nolan-new-film-bts-facts-trivia/ |title=Tenet: 10 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Christopher Nolan's New Film |website=[[Screen Rant]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200831074337/https://screenrant.com/tenet-christopher-nolan-new-film-bts-facts-trivia/ |archive-date=August 31, 2020 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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=== Bibliography ===
* {{cite book |last=Mottram |first=James |title=The Secrets of Tenet: Inside Christopher Nolan's Quantum Cold War |year=2020 |publisher=Insight Editions|isbn=978-1-64722-060-0 }}
 
== Further reading ==
* {{cite book |last=Belluomini |first=L. |contribution=''Tenet'' as Philosophy: Fatalism Isn't an Excuse to Do Nothing |editor=Johnson D. K. |title=The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy | year=2020 | publisher=Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-97134-6_99-1 |isbn=978-3-319-97134-6}}
 
== External links ==
* {{Official website}}
* {{IMDb title}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes}}
* {{Mojo title}}
* [http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tenet Tenet] at the [[Science Fiction Encyclopedia]]
 
{{Christopher Nolan}}
{{Seattle Film Critics Society Award for Best Action Choreography}}
 
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Tenet
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Theatrical release poster
Directed byChristopher Nolan
Produced by
Written byChristopher Nolan
Starring
Music byLudwig Göransson
CinematographyHoyte van Hoytema
Edited byJennifer Lame
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • August 26, 2020 (2020-08-26) (United Kingdom)
  • September 3, 2020 (2020-09-03) (United States)
Running time
150 minutes[1]
Country
  • United Kingdom[2]
  • United States[2]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$200 million[3]
Box office$363.7 million[4][5]

Tenet is a 2020 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who produced it with Emma Thomas. A co-production between the United Kingdom and United States, it stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. The film follows a secret agent who learns to manipulate the flow of time to prevent an attack from the future that threatens to annihilate the present world.

Nolan took more than five years to write the screenplay after deliberating about Tenet's central ideas for over a decade. Pre-production began in late 2018, casting took place in March 2019, and principal photography lasted six months, from May to November, in Denmark, Estonia, India, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema shot on 65 mm film and IMAX. Over one hundred vessels and thousands of extras were used.

Delayed three times because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tenet was released in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2020, and United States on September 3, 2020, in IMAX, 35 mm, and 70 mm. It was the first Hollywood tent-pole to open in theaters after the pandemic shutdown, and grossed $363 million worldwide, making it the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2020. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and won Best Visual Effects at the 93rd Academy Awards; it was also nominated for Best Production Design.

Plot

A CIA agent, the "Protagonist", participates in an extraction operation at the Kyiv opera house. After seizing an artifact, the Protagonist is captured by mercenaries. He is tortured before consuming a suicide pill. He awakens to learn the suicide pill was a test of loyalty and that the artifact was lost.

The Protagonist is recruited by an organization called Tenet. A scientist briefs him on bullets with "inverted" entropy, meaning they move backward through time. The Protagonist meets his handler, Neil, through a CIA contact, and they trace the inverted bullets to arms dealer Priya Singh in Mumbai. They learn that Priya is a member of Tenet, and her cartridges were purchased and inverted by Russian oligarch Andrei Sator.

The Protagonist approaches Sator's estranged wife Kat, an art appraiser who falsely authenticated a forged Goya drawing. She tells him that Sator purchased the drawing from the forger, Arepo, and is using Kat's authentication as blackmail to control her in their relationship. The Protagonist and Neil plot to steal the drawing from a freeport storage facility at the Oslo Airport. There they fend off two masked men who emerge from a device. Afterward, Priya explains that the device is a turnstile, a machine that can invert the entropy of objects and people, and that the masked men were the same person traveling in opposite directions through time.

Kat introduces the Protagonist to Sator, and learns the drawing is intact. Sator plans to kill the Protagonist, but the Protagonist saves Sator's life after Kat attempts to drown him. Sator and the Protagonist strike a partnership to retrieve a case supposedly containing plutonium-241. In Tallinn, the Protagonist and Neil ambush a convoy and steal the case, which actually contains the artifact lost in Kyiv. They are ambushed by an inverted Sator holding Kat hostage. The Protagonist gives an empty case to Sator, who retreats after receiving it. The Protagonist rescues Kat but is soon captured and taken to a warehouse with a turnstile.

In the warehouse, the inverted Sator shoots Kat with an inverted round, while he demands the location of the artifact. Tenet operatives led by Ives arrive and rescue the Protagonist while Sator escapes into the turnstile. The group takes Kat through the turnstile to aid healing her inverted wound. The now-inverted Protagonist travels back in time to the ambush site, where he unsuccessfully attempts to retrieve the artifact, Sator has got hold of it. The Protagonist's car is overturned and set on fire by Sator, but Neil saves him.

The Protagonist, Neil, and Kat travel back in time to the freeport in Oslo. The Protagonist fights his past self, enters the turnstile, and reverts, followed by Neil and Kat. Later, Priya explains that Sator is collecting the artifacts to assemble an "algorithm" which can catastrophically invert the entropy of the Earth.

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Sator square, providing the film title, location of the opening sequence (Kyiv Opera), and character or firm names (A. Sator; Arepo the Goya forger; and Rotas Security in Oslo Freeport)

Kat reveals Sator is dying from cancer. They think that Sator is using a dead man's switch to send the location of the algorithm into the future. Kat believes Sator will travel back in time to commit suicide during their vacation in Vietnam. The Protagonist, Neil, Kat, and Tenet troops travel back in time to that day, where Kat poses as her past self to keep Sator alive long enough for Tenet to secure the algorithm. Tenet tracks the algorithm to Sator's hometown, Stalsk-12, where it is heavily guarded. They launch a "temporal pincer movement", with non-inverted and inverted troops making a simultaneous assault. Sator reveals people in the future want him to find and gather the algorithm pieces in the hopes of reversing the effects of climate change. An inverted soldier wearing a red trinket sacrifices himself to save the Protagonist and Ives as they attempt to secure the algorithm. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, Kat kills Sator, hoping the Tenet team is able to secure the algorithm.

The Protagonist, Neil, and Ives break up the algorithm and part ways. The Protagonist notices that Neil is wearing the red trinket. Neil reveals he was recruited by the Protagonist in Neil's past. Since Kat knows too much, Priya attempts to have her assassinated, but Priya is killed by the Protagonist, who has concluded that he is the mastermind behind Tenet.

Scientific accuracy

The film's plot revolves around reversing the entropy of things and people, resulting in time reversibility.[6] Tenet makes reference to physics concepts including annihilation,[7][8] the second law of thermodynamics, Maxwell's demon, and Feynman and Wheeler's notion of a one-electron universe, but Christopher Nolan stated in the film's press notes: "we're not going to make any case for this being scientifically accurate".[6]

Cast

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Production

Pre-production

Writer and director Christopher Nolan conceived the ideas behind Tenet over the course of twenty years,[9] but began working on the script in 2014.[10] The title is a palindrome and an allusion to the Sator Square.[10][11] Nolan made a conscious effort to abstain from any influence of the spy genre other than his own memory.[12] Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) inspired the screenwriting.[9] Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, who worked with Nolan on Interstellar (2014), was consulted on the subjects of time and quantum physics.[13] Pre-production lasted from late 2018 until early 2019, leaving department heads five months to prepare.[10] Special effects supervisor Scott R. Fisher watched World War II movies and documentaries to find reference points for realism.[14] Production designer Nathan Crowley requested Hamilton Watch Company to manufacture around thirty military wristwatches, each analog with a digital countdown.[15] Nolan and Crowley traveled to scout for locations in February and April 2019. Disappointed with the Royal Swedish Opera as a potential spot for the Kyiv Opera House, Crowley switched it to the Linnahall, which fit his affinity for Brutalist architecture. Shree Vardhan Tower was chosen instead of Antilia, as the latter had too high security; the National Liberal Club took the place of Sotheby's, whose management refused to participate; and they chose Cannon Hall after Thornhill Primary School in Islington and Channing School had been deemed unsatisfactory. Prop prototypes were often 3D printed. Costume designer Jeffrey Kurland and his team cut and stitched the clothing in the United States, manufacturing them for the main cast and thousands more.[10][16]

Casting

John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Elizabeth Debicki were cast in March 2019.[17][18] Washington, Pattinson, and Debicki were each only permitted to read the screenplay while locked in a room.[19][9][20] Nolan chose Washington for his performance in BlacKkKlansman (2018).[21] Washington kept diaries in which he would expand the Protagonist's backstory.[22] Seeing Pattinson in Good Time (2017) made a considerable impression on producer Emma Thomas.[10] Pattinson based his character's mannerisms on those of author Christopher Hitchens.[23] While Kat was originally going to be an older woman, Debicki's appearance in Widows (2018) convinced the filmmakers otherwise.[10] The casting of Dimple Kapadia, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Clémence Poésy, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh was announced as filming started.[24] Kapadia's screen test was put together by director Homi Adajania while working on his 2020 film Angrezi Medium.[25] Poésy was pregnant with her second child at the time, something Thomas opted to keep visible.[10] Caine was merely given his pages for one day of work.[26] Branagh rescheduled production on his own directorial venture Death on the Nile (2022) to do the part, claiming to have studied the manuscript more times than any other in his career.[10] Himesh Patel joined in August.[27] Martin Donovan was revealed in the first trailer.[28] Fiona Dourif and Yuri Kolokolnikov were included later on.[29] Dourif's role Wheeler is a reference to theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler.[10]

Filming

Principal photography, involving a crew of 250 people,[23] began in May 2019 on a soundstage in Los Angeles and took place in seven countries[10][30]—Denmark, Estonia,[nb 1] India,[nb 2] Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, and United States.[33][nb 3] Filming in Estonia happened in June and July, with the Linnahall, Pärnu Highway (E67), and adjacent streets closed to facilitate it.[34][35] Kumu Art Museum doubled as the fictional "Oslo freeport".[36] Barbara's office was built in a former law court, the Tallinn Freeport exterior was at the city docks, and a room at the Hilton Tallinn Park Hotel was also utilized.[10] Mayor Mihhail Kõlvart expressed concerns about potential disruptions as the shooting schedule required that the arterial Laagna Road be closed for one month.[37] A compromise was eventually reached, involving temporary road closures and detours.[38][39]

Scenes were shot on the Amalfi Coast (Italy), the Solent, at the Reform Club, Locanda Locatelli, and Cannon Hall (England) from July to August,[10][40][41] on the roof of the Oslo Opera House, at The Thief hotel (Norway), and in Rødbyhavn at Nysted Wind Farm (Denmark) in early September.[36][42][43] A five-day shoot occurred later that month in Mumbai,[33] specifically Breach Candy Hospital, Cafe Mondegar, Colaba Causeway, Colaba Market, Gateway of India, Grant Road, Royal Bombay Yacht Club, and the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.[44][45][46][47] A restaurant named "Chaand" was erected near the hotel,[45] but never used, serving only as an alternative.[33] Forty boats were positioned at the Gateway of India, where the crew rescued a man who had attempted suicide.[48] They proceeded to Los Angeles soon after. Hawthorne Plaza Shopping Center functioned as the interior set of an icebreaker and a shipping container. The Victorville Airport was disguised as Oslo, with more than ninety extras involved.[10][9] Instead of using miniatures and visual effects (VFX) for the plane crash sequence, Nolan determined that purchasing a Boeing 747 proved more cost effective.[49] October saw them in Eagle Mountain, where an abandoned town had been constructed and hundreds were clothed in military camouflage uniforms.[10][19] Over thirty buildings were prefabricated in Los Angeles and shipped to the site. Four Boeing CH-47 Chinooks were loaned out for four days. Outside shots of a tunnel were done in the desert, while the insides of the Hypocenter were fashioned on a soundstage. Tenet wrapped on November 12, after ninety-six days.[10]

Director of photography Hoyte van Hoytema employed a combination of 65 mm film and IMAX,[50] prioritizing Panavision lenses that would best accommodate lower light.[14] Segments that concerned time inversion were captured both in backward and forward mobility and speech.[51][52] To ensure proficiency in handling firearms, Washington and Pattinson attended the Taran Tactical firing range in Simi Valley. They also did some of their own stunts. Over one hundred watercraft were recruited, together with two F50 catamarans, the megayacht Planet Nine (onto which an Mi-8 helicopter would land), icebreakers, speed- and fishing boats, and a cargo tanker.[10] The windfarm vessel Iceni Revenge was brought through Denmark, Estonia, and Italy for all three months.[53]

Post-production

Jennifer Lame replaced Nolan's long-time editor Lee Smith, who was occupied with 2019's 1917.[54] Lame was tasked with unsupervised editing during the principal photography and would look at dailies.[10] DNEG created about 280 VFX shots.[9] Sound designer Richard King sent a team to Eagle Mountain to record the Chinooks and Mi-8, and to Southampton for the F50 catamarans. Others were hired for the aural atmosphere of Oslo, Mumbai, and Tallinn. King got the audio of both live and blank automatic weapon rounds at a gun range in San Francisquito Canyon and rented a runway to test how the vehicles sounded.[10]

Music

See also: Tenet: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Ludwig Göransson was chosen as the composer as Nolan's frequent collaborator Hans Zimmer had committed himself to the 2021 film Dune.[55][56] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Göransson recorded musicians at their homes.[19] Researching retrograde composition caused him to generate melodies that would sound the same forward and backward. He experimented with distorted industrial noise and, to represent Sator's irradiated breathing, asked Nolan to tape his own in studio. Göransson produced ten to fifteen minutes of music each week. The first scoring session was held in November 2019, continuing into early 2020.[10] The Tenet soundtrack contains "The Plan," a song by Travis Scott,[57] which plays over the film's closing credits.

Release

Theatrical

Warner Bros. originally scheduled Tenet for a July 17, 2020, release in IMAX, 35 mm, and 70 mm film.[58] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was first delayed to July 31,[59][60] and subsequently August 12.[61] Executives calculated that each postponement cost Warner Bros. between $200,000 and $400,000 in marketing fees.[62] After briefly being held up indefinitely,[63] Warner Bros. arranged the film to be released internationally on August 26 in seventy countries, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United Kingdom.[64] Preview screenings commenced in Australia and South Korea on August 22 and 23.[65][66] It moved to select cities in the United States on September 3, gradually expanding in the ensuing weeks.[64] On September 4, it came out in China.[67] Tenet became the first Hollywood tent-pole to launch in theaters following their prolonged shutdown.[68] The lack of available movies afforded it more screens per multiplex than would otherwise be possible.[69]

Home media

It became available on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD, and digital services on December 15, 2020.[70] On March 2, 2021, Warner Bros. announced that in light of the New York state government allowing movie theaters in New York City to re-open the following Friday (March 5) following a nearly year-long shutdown (causing theaters in the city to miss out on the film's initial theatrical run), they would be re-releasing Tenet at select theaters in the city that same day.[71] Tenet was released on HBO Max on May 1, 2021.[72]

Reception

Box office

Tenet grossed $58.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $305.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $363.7 million.[4][5] With a production budget of $200 million,[73] Tenet is Nolan's most expensive original project.[74] IndieWire speculated that the marketing could push the final sum to $300–350 million,[75] though analysts predicted lower advertising costs than usual, owing to inexpensive live sports ads.[76] Box office analyst Jeff Bock estimated it would need to make $400–$500 million in order to break even.[77] In November 2020, rival studios expected the film to lose up to $100 million, but Warner Bros. insisted losses would not top $50 million.[78] Nolan was reported to receive twenty percent of the first-dollar gross.[79]

Tenet was projected to take $25–30 million internationally over its first five days.[80] In South Korea, pre-sale IMAX tickets sold out and weekend previews totaled $717,000 from 590 venues.[66] Another four days there yielded $4.13 million from about 2,200 screens, bringing the cume to $5.1 million by the end of the week. The film debuted to $53 million in forty-one countries, grossing $7.1 million in the United Kingdom, $6.7 million in France, and $4.2 million in Germany.[3][81][82] Tenet made $58.1 million in its second weekend, with China ($30 million from first showings), the U.K. ($13.1 million), France ($10.7 million), Germany ($8.7 million), and South Korea ($8.2 million) as its largest markets.[83] Its third weekend garnered $30.6 million, comprising $16.4 million from the U.K., $13.2 million from France, $11.4 million from Germany, $10.3 million from South Korea, and $10.2 million from China.[84] Two weeks in Japan accumulated $11.4 million.[85] Tenet opened in India on December 4, 2020,[86] and made about $1.2 million in the first ten days.[87] Tenet became the highest-grossing film of all time in Estonia, with a total gross of $1.2 million.[88]

With 65% of American and Canadian theaters operating at 25–40% capacity, the first eleven days acquired $20.2 million from 2,810 theaters; $2.5 million in Canada, $12 million in the U.S., and the rest from previews.[82][89] The second, third, and fourth weekends added $6.7 million, $4.7 million, and $3.4 million, respectively.[90][91][92] Tenet remained atop the box office in its fifth weekend with $2.7 million,[93] before ceding to The War with Grandpa in its sixth weekend.[94]

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 70% of 353 critics gave Tenet a positive review, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "A visually dazzling puzzle for film lovers to unlock, Tenet serves up all the cerebral spectacle audiences expect from a Christopher Nolan production."[95] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 69 out of 100 based on 50 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[96] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale,[97] and PostTrak reported 80% of those gave the film a positive score, with 65% saying they would recommend it.[90] Keith Phillips of The Ringer wrote that Tenet has the makings of a cult film: "With a failed release due to the pandemic, a muted critical reception, and a twisty narrative that demands multiple viewings, Christopher Nolan's 2020 film has all of the elements that eventually lead to niche fandom."[98]

Guy Lodge of Variety described Tenet as a "grandly entertaining, time-slipping spectacle."[99] The Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw felt it was both "madly preposterous" and "amazing cinema".[100] Kevin Maher of The Times awarded the film a full five stars, deeming it "a delightfully convoluted masterpiece."[101] Robbie Collin of The Telegraph likened it to Nolan's Inception and praised the "depth, subtlety and wit of Pattinson and Debicki's performances."[102] In his review for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers praised the film for being "pure, ravishing cinema", and praised Washington's performance, calling him a "star-in-the-making" and writing, "A former football running back, the actor brings a natural athletic grace to the stunts and hand-to-hand combat that forge a visceral bond between his character and the audience."[103] A review for The Dispatch called Tenet "the perfect movie to mark the return of theaters because it captures so much of what makes the medium of cinema great."[104] James Berardinelli noted that, "[Tenet] may be the most challenging of Nolan's films to date when it comes to wrapping one's mind around the concepts forming the narrative's foundation: backwards-moving entropy, non-linear thinking, temporal paradoxes ... The film contains some of Nolan's most ambitious action sequences to-date but one wonders whether the plot density—a not inconsiderable obstacle for some who prefer not to devote their undivided attention for ​2 1⁄2 hours—might prove to be problematic."[105] Mark Daniell of the Toronto Sun gave the film four out of four stars, deeming it "the cinematic equivalent of a Rubik's Cube, presented in towering Imax and featuring a polished cast set amidst some of the world's most gorgeous locations."[106] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it ​3 1⁄2 out of 4 stars, and noted that the movie "reaches for cinematic greatness and, though it doesn't quite reach that lofty goal, it's the kind of film that reminds us of the magic of the moviegoing experience."[107]

Jessica Kiang of The New York Times described it as Nolan's "time-bending" take on James Bond, praising the film's cinematography, score, editing, acting and "immaculately creaseless costumes", while also deeming it a "hugely expensive, blissfully empty spectacle".[108] LA Weekly's Asher Luberto also highlighted the similarities between Tenet and the James Bond films, but also felt it was "a daring, surprising and entirely original piece of work, reverent in its spectacle and haunting in its mesmerizing, dreamlike form."[109] Branagh's Andrei Sator was described by some critics as a stereotypical Russian villain.[110][111] Christina Newland of New York noted that Sator is "played by a silly-accented Kenneth Branagh as a Bond-villain-esque Russian mastermind."[112] Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter felt Washington was "dashing but a little dull," but remarked that Debicki's performance "adds a color to Nolan's palette, and [she] has persuasive chemistry with Branagh in their joint portrait of a violent, dysfunctional love-hate relationship." She further concluded that Tenet makes "for a chilly, cerebral film—easy to admire, especially since it's so rich in audacity and originality, but almost impossible to love, lacking as it is in a certain humanity."[113]

Mike McCahill of IndieWire noted that it was "the summer's most keenly awaited event movie" but gave it a "C-" grade and called it "a humorless disappointment".[114] Poor sound mixing on 35 mm movie film "often" rendered dialog inaudible, stated Brian Lloyd of Entertainment.ie; viewing the film on Digital Cinema Package files reduced the problem.[115] Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune awarded the film 2 out of 4 stars, writing, "I wish Tenet exploited its own ideas more dynamically. Nolan's a prodigious talent. But no major director, I suppose, can avoid going sideways from time to time."[116] New York Post's Johnny Oleksinski also gave it 2 out of 4 stars, calling it Nolan's most "confusing" work so far, but acknowledged being "swept up by Nolan's incomparable cinematic vision. He is one of the few directors working today who consistently churns out visually seismic, sophisticated action films".[117] Kathleen Sachs of the Chicago Reader gave it ​1 1⁄2 out of 4 stars, concluding that Nolan "doesn't show much growth in his most recent self-indulgent work."[118]

Accolades

Ceremonies Year(s) Categories Recipients/nominees Results Ref.
Academy Awards 2021 Best Production Design Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas Nominated [119]
Best Visual Effects Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher Won
Art Directors Guild Awards 2021 Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film Nathan Crowley Won [120]
British Academy Film Awards 2021 Best Special Visual Effects Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson and Andrew Lockley Won [121]
Critics' Choice Awards 2021 Best Cinematography Hoyte van Hoytema Nominated [122]
Best Editing Jennifer Lame Nominated
Best Production Design Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas Nominated
Best Score Ludwig Göransson Nominated
Best Visual Effects Tenet Won
Critics' Choice Super Awards 2021 Best Action Movie Tenet Nominated [123]
Best Actor in an Action Movie John David Washington Nominated
Golden Angel Award in Chinese American Film Festival 2020 Most Popular U.S. Film in China Tenet Won [124]
Golden Globe Awards 2021 Best Original Score Ludwig Göransson Nominated [125]
Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2021 Best Original Score in a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film Ludwig Göransson Won [126]
Best Original Song in a Feature Film "The Plan" – Jacques Webster II, Ebony Naomi Oshunrinde and Ludwig Göransson Nominated
Hugo Awards 2021 Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Christopher Nolan Nominated [127]
Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards 2021 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley for Feature Film Richard King, Joseph Fraioli, Mark Larry, Michael W. Mitchell, Angela Ang, Bruce Tanis, John Cucci, Catherine Harper, Alyson Dee Moore, Chris Moriana, Dan O'Connell, Shelley Roden, John Roesch and Katie Rose Nominated [128]
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Underscore Alex Gibson and Nicholas Fitzgerald Won
People's Choice Awards 2020 Favorite Action Movie Tenet Nominated [129]
Favorite Action Movie Star John David Washington Nominated
Satellite Awards 2021 Best Motion Picture – Drama Tenet Nominated [130]
Best Cinematography Hoyte van Hoytema Nominated
Best Original Score Ludwig Göransson Nominated
Best Sound (Editing and Mixing) Willie D. Burton, Richard King, Kevin O'Connell & Gary A.Rizzo Nominated
Best Visual Effects Andrew Jackson Won
Saturn Awards 2021 Best Science Fiction Film Tenet Pending [131]
Best Director Christopher Nolan Pending
Best Writing Christopher Nolan Pending
Best Actor John David Washington Pending
Best Supporting Actor Robert Pattinson Pending
Best Editing Jennifer Lame Pending
Best Music Ludwig Göransson Pending
Best Production Design Nathan Crowley Pending
Best Special / Visual Effects Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley, Scott R. Fisher, Mike Chambers Pending
Set Decorators Society of America Awards 2021 Best Achievement in Décor/Design of a Science Fiction or Fantasy Feature Film Kathy Lucas and Nathan Crowley Won [132]
Visual Effects Society Awards 2021 Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature Andrew Jackson, Mike Chambers, Andrew Lockley, David Lee, Scott Fisher Nominated [133]

Glenn Whipp of the Los Angeles Times noted that Warner Bros. did not put Tenet on the Academy's streaming platform or send out screeners to awards voters.[134]

Notes

  1. ↑ Seven weeks of filming in Estonia came at a cost of €16.5 million;[19][31] Warner Bros. Pictures paid a rebate that was reimbursed at thirty percent.[31]
  2. ↑ It took one week to secure the permission to shoot in Mumbai.[32] The planned schedule was completed in half the time.[33]
  3. ↑ Tenet went under the working title Merry Go Round.[9][32]

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Tenet
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Theatrical release poster
Directed byChristopher Nolan
Produced by
Written byChristopher Nolan
Starring
Music byLudwig Göransson
CinematographyHoyte van Hoytema
Edited byJennifer Lame
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • August 26, 2020 (2020-08-26) (United Kingdom)
  • September 3, 2020 (2020-09-03) (United States)
Running time
150 minutes[1]
Country
  • United Kingdom[2]
  • United States[2]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$200 million[3]
Box office$363.7 million[4][5]

Tenet is a 2020 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who produced it with Emma Thomas. A co-production between the United Kingdom and United States, it stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. The film follows a secret agent who learns to manipulate the flow of time to prevent an attack from the future that threatens to annihilate the present world.

Nolan took more than five years to write the screenplay after deliberating about Tenet's central ideas for over a decade. Pre-production began in late 2018, casting took place in March 2019, and principal photography lasted six months, from May to November, in Denmark, Estonia, India, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema shot on 65 mm film and IMAX. Over one hundred vessels and thousands of extras were used.

Delayed three times because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tenet was released in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2020, and United States on September 3, 2020, in IMAX, 35 mm, and 70 mm. It was the first Hollywood tent-pole to open in theaters after the pandemic shutdown, and grossed $363 million worldwide, making it the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2020. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and won Best Visual Effects at the 93rd Academy Awards; it was also nominated for Best Production Design.

Plot

A CIA agent, the "Protagonist", participates in an extraction operation at the Kyiv opera house. After seizing an artifact, the Protagonist is captured by mercenaries. He is tortured before consuming a suicide pill. He awakens to learn the suicide pill was a test of loyalty and that the artifact was lost.

The Protagonist is recruited by an organization called Tenet. A scientist briefs him on bullets with "inverted" entropy, meaning they move backward through time. The Protagonist meets his handler, Neil, through a CIA contact, and they trace the inverted bullets to arms dealer Priya Singh in Mumbai. They learn that Priya is a member of Tenet, and her cartridges were purchased and inverted by Russian oligarch Andrei Sator.

The Protagonist approaches Sator's estranged wife Kat, an art appraiser who falsely authenticated a forged Goya drawing. She tells him that Sator purchased the drawing from the forger, Arepo, and is using Kat's authentication as blackmail to control her in their relationship. The Protagonist and Neil plot to steal the drawing from a freeport storage facility at the Oslo Airport. There they fend off two masked men who emerge from a device. Afterward, Priya explains that the device is a turnstile, a machine that can invert the entropy of objects and people, and that the masked men were the same person traveling in opposite directions through time.

Kat introduces the Protagonist to Sator, and learns the drawing is intact. Sator plans to kill the Protagonist, but the Protagonist saves Sator's life after Kat attempts to drown him. Sator and the Protagonist strike a partnership to retrieve a case supposedly containing plutonium-241. In Tallinn, the Protagonist and Neil ambush a convoy and steal the case, which actually contains the artifact lost in Kyiv. They are ambushed by an inverted Sator holding Kat hostage. The Protagonist gives an empty case to Sator, who retreats after receiving it. The Protagonist rescues Kat but is soon captured and taken to a warehouse with a turnstile.

In the warehouse, the inverted Sator shoots Kat with an inverted round, while he demands the location of the artifact. Tenet operatives led by Ives arrive and rescue the Protagonist while Sator escapes into the turnstile. The group takes Kat through the turnstile to aid healing her inverted wound. The now-inverted Protagonist travels back in time to the ambush site, where he unsuccessfully attempts to retrieve the artifact, Sator has got hold of it. The Protagonist's car is overturned and set on fire by Sator, but Neil saves him.

The Protagonist, Neil, and Kat travel back in time to the freeport in Oslo. The Protagonist fights his past self, enters the turnstile, and reverts, followed by Neil and Kat. Later, Priya explains that Sator is collecting the artifacts to assemble an "algorithm" which can catastrophically invert the entropy of the Earth.

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Sator square, providing the film title, location of the opening sequence (Kyiv Opera), and character or firm names (A. Sator; Arepo the Goya forger; and Rotas Security in Oslo Freeport)

Kat reveals Sator is dying from cancer. They think that Sator is using a dead man's switch to send the location of the algorithm into the future. Kat believes Sator will travel back in time to commit suicide during their vacation in Vietnam. The Protagonist, Neil, Kat, and Tenet troops travel back in time to that day, where Kat poses as her past self to keep Sator alive long enough for Tenet to secure the algorithm. Tenet tracks the algorithm to Sator's hometown, Stalsk-12, where it is heavily guarded. They launch a "temporal pincer movement", with non-inverted and inverted troops making a simultaneous assault. Sator reveals people in the future want him to find and gather the algorithm pieces in the hopes of reversing the effects of climate change. An inverted soldier wearing a red trinket sacrifices himself to save the Protagonist and Ives as they attempt to secure the algorithm. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, Kat kills Sator, hoping the Tenet team is able to secure the algorithm.

The Protagonist, Neil, and Ives break up the algorithm and part ways. The Protagonist notices that Neil is wearing the red trinket. Neil reveals he was recruited by the Protagonist in Neil's past. Since Kat knows too much, Priya attempts to have her assassinated, but Priya is killed by the Protagonist, who has concluded that he is the mastermind behind Tenet.

Scientific accuracy

The film's plot revolves around reversing the entropy of things and people, resulting in time reversibility.[6] Tenet makes reference to physics concepts including annihilation,[7][8] the second law of thermodynamics, Maxwell's demon, and Feynman and Wheeler's notion of a one-electron universe, but Christopher Nolan stated in the film's press notes: "we're not going to make any case for this being scientifically accurate".[6]

Cast

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Production

Pre-production

Writer and director Christopher Nolan conceived the ideas behind Tenet over the course of twenty years,[9] but began working on the script in 2014.[10] The title is a palindrome and an allusion to the Sator Square.[10][11] Nolan made a conscious effort to abstain from any influence of the spy genre other than his own memory.[12] Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) inspired the screenwriting.[9] Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, who worked with Nolan on Interstellar (2014), was consulted on the subjects of time and quantum physics.[13] Pre-production lasted from late 2018 until early 2019, leaving department heads five months to prepare.[10] Special effects supervisor Scott R. Fisher watched World War II movies and documentaries to find reference points for realism.[14] Production designer Nathan Crowley requested Hamilton Watch Company to manufacture around thirty military wristwatches, each analog with a digital countdown.[15] Nolan and Crowley traveled to scout for locations in February and April 2019. Disappointed with the Royal Swedish Opera as a potential spot for the Kyiv Opera House, Crowley switched it to the Linnahall, which fit his affinity for Brutalist architecture. Shree Vardhan Tower was chosen instead of Antilia, as the latter had too high security; the National Liberal Club took the place of Sotheby's, whose management refused to participate; and they chose Cannon Hall after Thornhill Primary School in Islington and Channing School had been deemed unsatisfactory. Prop prototypes were often 3D printed. Costume designer Jeffrey Kurland and his team cut and stitched the clothing in the United States, manufacturing them for the main cast and thousands more.[10][16]

Casting

John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Elizabeth Debicki were cast in March 2019.[17][18] Washington, Pattinson, and Debicki were each only permitted to read the screenplay while locked in a room.[19][9][20] Nolan chose Washington for his performance in BlacKkKlansman (2018).[21] Washington kept diaries in which he would expand the Protagonist's backstory.[22] Seeing Pattinson in Good Time (2017) made a considerable impression on producer Emma Thomas.[10] Pattinson based his character's mannerisms on those of author Christopher Hitchens.[23] While Kat was originally going to be an older woman, Debicki's appearance in Widows (2018) convinced the filmmakers otherwise.[10] The casting of Dimple Kapadia, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Clémence Poésy, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh was announced as filming started.[24] Kapadia's screen test was put together by director Homi Adajania while working on his 2020 film Angrezi Medium.[25] Poésy was pregnant with her second child at the time, something Thomas opted to keep visible.[10] Caine was merely given his pages for one day of work.[26] Branagh rescheduled production on his own directorial venture Death on the Nile (2022) to do the part, claiming to have studied the manuscript more times than any other in his career.[10] Himesh Patel joined in August.[27] Martin Donovan was revealed in the first trailer.[28] Fiona Dourif and Yuri Kolokolnikov were included later on.[29] Dourif's role Wheeler is a reference to theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler.[10]

Filming

Principal photography, involving a crew of 250 people,[23] began in May 2019 on a soundstage in Los Angeles and took place in seven countries[10][30]—Denmark, Estonia,[nb 1] India,[nb 2] Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, and United States.[33][nb 3] Filming in Estonia happened in June and July, with the Linnahall, Pärnu Highway (E67), and adjacent streets closed to facilitate it.[34][35] Kumu Art Museum doubled as the fictional "Oslo freeport".[36] Barbara's office was built in a former law court, the Tallinn Freeport exterior was at the city docks, and a room at the Hilton Tallinn Park Hotel was also utilized.[10] Mayor Mihhail Kõlvart expressed concerns about potential disruptions as the shooting schedule required that the arterial Laagna Road be closed for one month.[37] A compromise was eventually reached, involving temporary road closures and detours.[38][39]

Scenes were shot on the Amalfi Coast (Italy), the Solent, at the Reform Club, Locanda Locatelli, and Cannon Hall (England) from July to August,[10][40][41] on the roof of the Oslo Opera House, at The Thief hotel (Norway), and in Rødbyhavn at Nysted Wind Farm (Denmark) in early September.[36][42][43] A five-day shoot occurred later that month in Mumbai,[33] specifically Breach Candy Hospital, Cafe Mondegar, Colaba Causeway, Colaba Market, Gateway of India, Grant Road, Royal Bombay Yacht Club, and the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.[44][45][46][47] A restaurant named "Chaand" was erected near the hotel,[45] but never used, serving only as an alternative.[33] Forty boats were positioned at the Gateway of India, where the crew rescued a man who had attempted suicide.[48] They proceeded to Los Angeles soon after. Hawthorne Plaza Shopping Center functioned as the interior set of an icebreaker and a shipping container. The Victorville Airport was disguised as Oslo, with more than ninety extras involved.[10][9] Instead of using miniatures and visual effects (VFX) for the plane crash sequence, Nolan determined that purchasing a Boeing 747 proved more cost effective.[49] October saw them in Eagle Mountain, where an abandoned town had been constructed and hundreds were clothed in military camouflage uniforms.[10][19] Over thirty buildings were prefabricated in Los Angeles and shipped to the site. Four Boeing CH-47 Chinooks were loaned out for four days. Outside shots of a tunnel were done in the desert, while the insides of the Hypocenter were fashioned on a soundstage. Tenet wrapped on November 12, after ninety-six days.[10]

Director of photography Hoyte van Hoytema employed a combination of 65 mm film and IMAX,[50] prioritizing Panavision lenses that would best accommodate lower light.[14] Segments that concerned time inversion were captured both in backward and forward mobility and speech.[51][52] To ensure proficiency in handling firearms, Washington and Pattinson attended the Taran Tactical firing range in Simi Valley. They also did some of their own stunts. Over one hundred watercraft were recruited, together with two F50 catamarans, the megayacht Planet Nine (onto which an Mi-8 helicopter would land), icebreakers, speed- and fishing boats, and a cargo tanker.[10] The windfarm vessel Iceni Revenge was brought through Denmark, Estonia, and Italy for all three months.[53]

Post-production

Jennifer Lame replaced Nolan's long-time editor Lee Smith, who was occupied with 2019's 1917.[54] Lame was tasked with unsupervised editing during the principal photography and would look at dailies.[10] DNEG created about 280 VFX shots.[9] Sound designer Richard King sent a team to Eagle Mountain to record the Chinooks and Mi-8, and to Southampton for the F50 catamarans. Others were hired for the aural atmosphere of Oslo, Mumbai, and Tallinn. King got the audio of both live and blank automatic weapon rounds at a gun range in San Francisquito Canyon and rented a runway to test how the vehicles sounded.[10]

Music

See also: Tenet: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Ludwig Göransson was chosen as the composer as Nolan's frequent collaborator Hans Zimmer had committed himself to the 2021 film Dune.[55][56] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Göransson recorded musicians at their homes.[19] Researching retrograde composition caused him to generate melodies that would sound the same forward and backward. He experimented with distorted industrial noise and, to represent Sator's irradiated breathing, asked Nolan to tape his own in studio. Göransson produced ten to fifteen minutes of music each week. The first scoring session was held in November 2019, continuing into early 2020.[10] The Tenet soundtrack contains "The Plan," a song by Travis Scott,[57] which plays over the film's closing credits.

Release

Theatrical

Warner Bros. originally scheduled Tenet for a July 17, 2020, release in IMAX, 35 mm, and 70 mm film.[58] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was first delayed to July 31,[59][60] and subsequently August 12.[61] Executives calculated that each postponement cost Warner Bros. between $200,000 and $400,000 in marketing fees.[62] After briefly being held up indefinitely,[63] Warner Bros. arranged the film to be released internationally on August 26 in seventy countries, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United Kingdom.[64] Preview screenings commenced in Australia and South Korea on August 22 and 23.[65][66] It moved to select cities in the United States on September 3, gradually expanding in the ensuing weeks.[64] On September 4, it came out in China.[67] Tenet became the first Hollywood tent-pole to launch in theaters following their prolonged shutdown.[68] The lack of available movies afforded it more screens per multiplex than would otherwise be possible.[69]

Home media

It became available on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD, and digital services on December 15, 2020.[70] On March 2, 2021, Warner Bros. announced that in light of the New York state government allowing movie theaters in New York City to re-open the following Friday (March 5) following a nearly year-long shutdown (causing theaters in the city to miss out on the film's initial theatrical run), they would be re-releasing Tenet at select theaters in the city that same day.[71] Tenet was released on HBO Max on May 1, 2021.[72]

Reception

Box office

Tenet grossed $58.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $305.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $363.7 million.[4][5] With a production budget of $200 million,[73] Tenet is Nolan's most expensive original project.[74] IndieWire speculated that the marketing could push the final sum to $300–350 million,[75] though analysts predicted lower advertising costs than usual, owing to inexpensive live sports ads.[76] Box office analyst Jeff Bock estimated it would need to make $400–$500 million in order to break even.[77] In November 2020, rival studios expected the film to lose up to $100 million, but Warner Bros. insisted losses would not top $50 million.[78] Nolan was reported to receive twenty percent of the first-dollar gross.[79]

Tenet was projected to take $25–30 million internationally over its first five days.[80] In South Korea, pre-sale IMAX tickets sold out and weekend previews totaled $717,000 from 590 venues.[66] Another four days there yielded $4.13 million from about 2,200 screens, bringing the cume to $5.1 million by the end of the week. The film debuted to $53 million in forty-one countries, grossing $7.1 million in the United Kingdom, $6.7 million in France, and $4.2 million in Germany.[3][81][82] Tenet made $58.1 million in its second weekend, with China ($30 million from first showings), the U.K. ($13.1 million), France ($10.7 million), Germany ($8.7 million), and South Korea ($8.2 million) as its largest markets.[83] Its third weekend garnered $30.6 million, comprising $16.4 million from the U.K., $13.2 million from France, $11.4 million from Germany, $10.3 million from South Korea, and $10.2 million from China.[84] Two weeks in Japan accumulated $11.4 million.[85] Tenet opened in India on December 4, 2020,[86] and made about $1.2 million in the first ten days.[87] Tenet became the highest-grossing film of all time in Estonia, with a total gross of $1.2 million.[88]

With 65% of American and Canadian theaters operating at 25–40% capacity, the first eleven days acquired $20.2 million from 2,810 theaters; $2.5 million in Canada, $12 million in the U.S., and the rest from previews.[82][89] The second, third, and fourth weekends added $6.7 million, $4.7 million, and $3.4 million, respectively.[90][91][92] Tenet remained atop the box office in its fifth weekend with $2.7 million,[93] before ceding to The War with Grandpa in its sixth weekend.[94]

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 70% of 353 critics gave Tenet a positive review, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "A visually dazzling puzzle for film lovers to unlock, Tenet serves up all the cerebral spectacle audiences expect from a Christopher Nolan production."[95] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 69 out of 100 based on 50 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[96] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale,[97] and PostTrak reported 80% of those gave the film a positive score, with 65% saying they would recommend it.[90] Keith Phillips of The Ringer wrote that Tenet has the makings of a cult film: "With a failed release due to the pandemic, a muted critical reception, and a twisty narrative that demands multiple viewings, Christopher Nolan's 2020 film has all of the elements that eventually lead to niche fandom."[98]

Guy Lodge of Variety described Tenet as a "grandly entertaining, time-slipping spectacle."[99] The Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw felt it was both "madly preposterous" and "amazing cinema".[100] Kevin Maher of The Times awarded the film a full five stars, deeming it "a delightfully convoluted masterpiece."[101] Robbie Collin of The Telegraph likened it to Nolan's Inception and praised the "depth, subtlety and wit of Pattinson and Debicki's performances."[102] In his review for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers praised the film for being "pure, ravishing cinema", and praised Washington's performance, calling him a "star-in-the-making" and writing, "A former football running back, the actor brings a natural athletic grace to the stunts and hand-to-hand combat that forge a visceral bond between his character and the audience."[103] A review for The Dispatch called Tenet "the perfect movie to mark the return of theaters because it captures so much of what makes the medium of cinema great."[104] James Berardinelli noted that, "[Tenet] may be the most challenging of Nolan's films to date when it comes to wrapping one's mind around the concepts forming the narrative's foundation: backwards-moving entropy, non-linear thinking, temporal paradoxes ... The film contains some of Nolan's most ambitious action sequences to-date but one wonders whether the plot density—a not inconsiderable obstacle for some who prefer not to devote their undivided attention for ​2 1⁄2 hours—might prove to be problematic."[105] Mark Daniell of the Toronto Sun gave the film four out of four stars, deeming it "the cinematic equivalent of a Rubik's Cube, presented in towering Imax and featuring a polished cast set amidst some of the world's most gorgeous locations."[106] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it ​3 1⁄2 out of 4 stars, and noted that the movie "reaches for cinematic greatness and, though it doesn't quite reach that lofty goal, it's the kind of film that reminds us of the magic of the moviegoing experience."[107]

Jessica Kiang of The New York Times described it as Nolan's "time-bending" take on James Bond, praising the film's cinematography, score, editing, acting and "immaculately creaseless costumes", while also deeming it a "hugely expensive, blissfully empty spectacle".[108] LA Weekly's Asher Luberto also highlighted the similarities between Tenet and the James Bond films, but also felt it was "a daring, surprising and entirely original piece of work, reverent in its spectacle and haunting in its mesmerizing, dreamlike form."[109] Branagh's Andrei Sator was described by some critics as a stereotypical Russian villain.[110][111] Christina Newland of New York noted that Sator is "played by a silly-accented Kenneth Branagh as a Bond-villain-esque Russian mastermind."[112] Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter felt Washington was "dashing but a little dull," but remarked that Debicki's performance "adds a color to Nolan's palette, and [she] has persuasive chemistry with Branagh in their joint portrait of a violent, dysfunctional love-hate relationship." She further concluded that Tenet makes "for a chilly, cerebral film—easy to admire, especially since it's so rich in audacity and originality, but almost impossible to love, lacking as it is in a certain humanity."[113]

Mike McCahill of IndieWire noted that it was "the summer's most keenly awaited event movie" but gave it a "C-" grade and called it "a humorless disappointment".[114] Poor sound mixing on 35 mm movie film "often" rendered dialog inaudible, stated Brian Lloyd of Entertainment.ie; viewing the film on Digital Cinema Package files reduced the problem.[115] Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune awarded the film 2 out of 4 stars, writing, "I wish Tenet exploited its own ideas more dynamically. Nolan's a prodigious talent. But no major director, I suppose, can avoid going sideways from time to time."[116] New York Post's Johnny Oleksinski also gave it 2 out of 4 stars, calling it Nolan's most "confusing" work so far, but acknowledged being "swept up by Nolan's incomparable cinematic vision. He is one of the few directors working today who consistently churns out visually seismic, sophisticated action films".[117] Kathleen Sachs of the Chicago Reader gave it ​1 1⁄2 out of 4 stars, concluding that Nolan "doesn't show much growth in his most recent self-indulgent work."[118]

Accolades

Ceremonies Year(s) Categories Recipients/nominees Results Ref.
Academy Awards 2021 Best Production Design Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas Nominated [119]
Best Visual Effects Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher Won
Art Directors Guild Awards 2021 Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film Nathan Crowley Won [120]
British Academy Film Awards 2021 Best Special Visual Effects Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson and Andrew Lockley Won [121]
Critics' Choice Awards 2021 Best Cinematography Hoyte van Hoytema Nominated [122]
Best Editing Jennifer Lame Nominated
Best Production Design Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas Nominated
Best Score Ludwig Göransson Nominated
Best Visual Effects Tenet Won
Critics' Choice Super Awards 2021 Best Action Movie Tenet Nominated [123]
Best Actor in an Action Movie John David Washington Nominated
Golden Angel Award in Chinese American Film Festival 2020 Most Popular U.S. Film in China Tenet Won [124]
Golden Globe Awards 2021 Best Original Score Ludwig Göransson Nominated [125]
Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2021 Best Original Score in a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film Ludwig Göransson Won [126]
Best Original Song in a Feature Film "The Plan" – Jacques Webster II, Ebony Naomi Oshunrinde and Ludwig Göransson Nominated
Hugo Awards 2021 Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Christopher Nolan Nominated [127]
Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards 2021 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley for Feature Film Richard King, Joseph Fraioli, Mark Larry, Michael W. Mitchell, Angela Ang, Bruce Tanis, John Cucci, Catherine Harper, Alyson Dee Moore, Chris Moriana, Dan O'Connell, Shelley Roden, John Roesch and Katie Rose Nominated [128]
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Underscore Alex Gibson and Nicholas Fitzgerald Won
People's Choice Awards 2020 Favorite Action Movie Tenet Nominated [129]
Favorite Action Movie Star John David Washington Nominated
Satellite Awards 2021 Best Motion Picture – Drama Tenet Nominated [130]
Best Cinematography Hoyte van Hoytema Nominated
Best Original Score Ludwig Göransson Nominated
Best Sound (Editing and Mixing) Willie D. Burton, Richard King, Kevin O'Connell & Gary A.Rizzo Nominated
Best Visual Effects Andrew Jackson Won
Saturn Awards 2021 Best Science Fiction Film Tenet Pending [131]
Best Director Christopher Nolan Pending
Best Writing Christopher Nolan Pending
Best Actor John David Washington Pending
Best Supporting Actor Robert Pattinson Pending
Best Editing Jennifer Lame Pending
Best Music Ludwig Göransson Pending
Best Production Design Nathan Crowley Pending
Best Special / Visual Effects Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley, Scott R. Fisher, Mike Chambers Pending
Set Decorators Society of America Awards 2021 Best Achievement in Décor/Design of a Science Fiction or Fantasy Feature Film Kathy Lucas and Nathan Crowley Won [132]
Visual Effects Society Awards 2021 Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature Andrew Jackson, Mike Chambers, Andrew Lockley, David Lee, Scott Fisher Nominated [133]

Glenn Whipp of the Los Angeles Times noted that Warner Bros. did not put Tenet on the Academy's streaming platform or send out screeners to awards voters.[134]

Notes

  1. ↑ Seven weeks of filming in Estonia came at a cost of €16.5 million;[19][31] Warner Bros. Pictures paid a rebate that was reimbursed at thirty percent.[31]
  2. ↑ It took one week to secure the permission to shoot in Mumbai.[32] The planned schedule was completed in half the time.[33]
  3. ↑ Tenet went under the working title Merry Go Round.[9][32]

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Bibliography

  • Mottram, James (2020). The Secrets of Tenet: Inside Christopher Nolan's Quantum Cold War. Insight Editions. ISBN 978-1-64722-060-0.

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