On the international press tour for his new film, Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg opened up about his personal cinematic tastes and, specifically, his favorite Christopher Nolan film.
Right now, the legendary Steven Spielberg is monopolizing every talk show around the world to push the release of his latest sci‑fi baby, Disclosure Day. A fresh foray into alien encounters—another theme dear to the American maestro who has mined it across his career with classics such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra‑Terrestrial, War of the Worlds, but also A.I. Artificial Intelligence (yes) and the maligned Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
With a strong box‑office opening for its debut, Disclosure Day has already earned a warmly favorable critical reception in our pages, though we’ll concede its stance is bound to divide audiences. It was precisely during this high‑powered promotional swing that Spielberg was asked about his favorite Nolan film. And, perhaps surprisingly, the filmmaker delivered a choice that caught everyone off guard.
Steven Spielberg’s Pick
It came out during an interview with our American colleagues at Collider, where Spielberg participated in a cross‑talk with Emily Blunt—the leading lady in Disclosure Day. The reporter, seeking insight for a future Nolan retrospective video tribute, asked Spielberg to name his favorite among the director’s feature films.
“Absolutely. Memento. It will always be my favorite film of Chris’s career.”
A rather telling confession from Spielberg, given his well‑documented love of science fiction and space exploration. One might have expected him to pick Interstellar, which seems like the obvious choice for a fan of Nolan’s cosmos. For context, the 2000 thriller Memento follows an amnesiac man played by Guy Pearce as he hunts for vengeance through a brilliantly inverted narrative structure—and, of course, ends with a jaw‑dropping twist.
As Nolan’s own Odyssey looms and audiences await whether the director will flip Spielberg the same kind of homage, fans in the U.S. can already judge Spielberg’s latest theatrically. Disclosure Day has been playing in theaters nationwide since June 10, 2026.
