"Now, I’m sure it helped a bit that the director of First Man, Damien Chazelle (director of La La Land and Whiplash) talked about how much he loved Nolan’s film Dunkirk, but Nolan REALLY returned the favor. Like, this is what Nolan said about

First Man:

"His take on Neil Armstrong’s voyage was never going to be a middle-of-the-road affair. Instead he crafted a masterfully staged re-creation of the space program with utterly compelling physical detail and layers of cinematic immersion that command credence and ensure that the radical and intensively subjective nature of Chazelle’s point-of-view comes as a gradually unveiled shock.""