Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan and producer wife Emma Thomas to receive knighthood and damehood
28 March 2024, 17:50 | Updated: 28 March 2024, 22:18
Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan will receive a knighthood, documents published by the government show.
His wife, movie producer Emma Thomas, is to receive a damehood.
Filmmaker Nolan won a best director Oscar this month for his biopic Oppenheimer about the "father of the atomic bomb", which also won the prize for best picture and swept the awards season.
Nolan had previously been nominated for six Academy Awards, but had never picked up an Oscar for directing until this year's ceremony.
Born in London to a British father and American mother, Nolan read English at University College London, choosing UCL because of its filmmaking facilities.
It is also where he met his future wife, Thomas, with whom he has four children.
Nolan, 53, and Thomas, 52, have collaborated on all of his major feature films including The Dark Knight trilogy, 2010's Inception, 2014's Interstellar, 2017's Dunkirk and 2020's Tenet.
The couple co-founded and run a production company, Syncopy, that has been behind many of their blockbusters.
Nolan has spoken in the past of how his wife "always saw things the same way I did in terms of the importance of the medium".
When Nolan was presented with the British Film Institute (BFI) Fellowship for being "one of the world's most innovative and influential film directors", he credited his wife.
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Who else made the honours list?
Dr Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, has been knighted for services to Artificial Intelligence, while Conservative MP Philip Davies has been knighted for his public and parliamentary service.
Conservative MP Mark Spencer has also been knighted for his public and parliamentary service.
Meanwhile, the co-chief executive officer of Netflix, Ted Sarandos, has been made an honorary CBE for his services to creative industries.
The American businessman has been responsible for content operations at the streaming giant since 2000 and was appointed to his top position in July 2020.
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