Christopher Nolan conceives and writes the script for the movie 'Inception'.
Warner Bros. Pictures acquires the distribution rights for 'Inception'.
Composer Hans Zimmer begins working on the musical score for 'Inception'.
The movie 'Inception' is released in theaters worldwide.
Inception has its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Inception wins 4 Academy Awards including Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects.
Dom Cobb and Mal experiment with dream sharing and create the concept of limbo, a deep subconscious space.
After spending decades in limbo, Cobb performs an inception on Mal to convince her that their world is not real, leading to her waking up and eventually her death.
Cobb meets Saito and undertakes a job for him, promising to help him in return for a chance to return to the United States.
Cobb recruits Ariadne, Arthur, Eames, and Yusuf to help with the inception mission on Robert Fischer.
The team plans the multi-layered dream levels and practices shared dreaming and extraction techniques.
The team enters Fischer's subconscious for the first dream layer, involving a city chase and confrontation with Fischer's subconscious projections.
The team moves into the hotel dream level, where Arthur investigates Fischer's mind and fights projections while the van in the first layer is falling.
The team infiltrates a snowy mountain fortress to plant the idea in Fischer's subconscious, with Eames impersonating Fischer's godfather.
Cobb and Fischer enter limbo due to unexpected deaths in the dream layers and confront subconscious projections; Fischer is shown his father's legacy and Cobb confronts Mal.
After the inception is completed, Cobb returns to reality, reunited with his children; ambiguity remains about whether he is still dreaming.
