Director Christopher Nolan waited eight years before this reintroduction (reboot) of the character.With only one Academy Award nomination (and no win): Best Cinematography.With a domestic box-office gross of $205.3 million, and $372 million (worldwide), and a production budget of $150 million.The film was both a critical and commercial success.Batman (1989)d.Tim Burton, 126 minutesFilm Plot SummaryThe film opened with the disguised, black-caped crusader Batman (Michael Keaton) confronting two robbers in a dark, deserted, crime-ridden Gotham City alleyway after they had assaulted a tourist couple with a young boy - he kicked one thug through a doorway, and menaced the other one - warning him to tell his criminal friends about their new adversary ("I want you to tell all your friends about me.But then he realizes, after he has left Maggie to return to the office in the taxi, that his mother is not at home - she is playing bridge with friends.She asked about where Freddy's bones were hidden (to give him a proper burial), but he refused to help.Stan makes himself right at home - he takes a magazine, sits down, and reaches for an ornamental wax piece of fruit.