Christopher Nolan’s Inception won four Academy Awards at the 83rd Oscars.
The film received eight nominations for the ceremony honoring movies released in 2010. Its victories were Best Cinematography for Wally Pfിസ്റ്റer, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects. These awards recognized the film’s striking practical and digital imagery, complex sound design, and technical execution across its layered dream environments.
Inception did not win Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, or Best Original Score, although it was nominated in each of those categories. The film’s four wins made it one of the ceremony’s major technical winners. Its score, composed by Hans Zimmer, became especially associated with the film’s expanding-time sequences and the recurring musical cue built around Edith Piaf’s “Non, je ne regrette rien.”
The 83rd Academy Awards were held on February 27, 2011. Inception’s awards haul is sometimes confused with that of Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which won seven Oscars at the 96th Academy Awards.