UK to Honor Oppenheimer Filmmakers

For their service to film, couple will receive a knighthood and a damehood
By Bob Cronin,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 28, 2024 4:30 PM CDT
Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas In for UK Honor
Christopher Nolan, winner of the awards for best director and best picture for "Oppenheimer," left, and Emma Thomas, winner of the award for best picture for "Oppenheimer" pose at the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.   (AP Photo/John Locher)

The Academy Awards that Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas collected this month were for their work on Oppenheimer, but the filmmakers are to receive a more sweeping honor from the nation of their birth. The UK plans to bestow a knighthood on Nolan and a damehood on Thomas, the BBC reports, in recognition of their service to film. The couple met while attending University College London and married in 1997.

He directed Oppenheimer, and she directed it—their usual working arrangement. "Producer of all our films, and all our children," Nolan called Thomas in an Oscars acceptance speech, per the Independent. Their other films include Tenet, Dunkirk, the Dark Knight, and Memento. (More United Kingdom stories.)

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