Emma Thomas Nolan News Today

The Prime Minister surprised many by announcing a new raft of honours for a range of political and creative figures, including Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan.

The government has sparked accusations of cronyism by awarding a knighthood to a donor who gave the party £5 million last year.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak doled out damehoods, knighthoods and CBEs to tech experts, Tory MPs and those in the creative industry as he published a surprise list of gongs

Christopher Nolan and his wife Emma Thomas Nolan are set to receive a knighthood and damehood respectively for their services to film following the success of Oppenheimer

Earlier this month, London-born filmmaker Nolan won his first Oscar for directing the story of the life of the father of the atomic bomb, which starred Irish actor Cillian Murphy.

...and he had the perfect reaction!

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