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Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas Will Receive A Surprise Knighthood And Damehood
Honouring Services To Cinema
Tonight it was announced that Oscar winning film director Christopher Nolan and his wife, film producer Emma Thomas, are to receive a knighthood and damehood respectively…
The UK government has said that the pair were being honoured for their lengthy services to film.
Earlier this month, Nolan won his first-ever best director Oscar for Oppenheimer, his acclaimed film about the life of the father of the atomic bomb.
That film, which Thomas produced, swept the board at the recent Academy Awards ceremony, picking up seven gongs in total.
Accepting the best picture prize, Thomas said: “I think any of us who make movies dream of this moment. But it seemed so unlikely that it would ever actually happen.”
Nolan had previously been nominated for six Academy Awards, but had never won an Oscar for directing until this year.
Apart from Oppenheimer, Thomas has also worked on a string of other Nolan films including Tenet, Dunkirk, Interstellar, The Dark Knight, The Prestige, Batman Begins, Insomnia and Memento.
The pair met while they were studying at University College London.
