OPPENHEIMER director Christopher Nolan is to get a knighthood. His wife and co-producer Emma Thomas will also get a damehood after their biopic swept the awards season. Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas are set to receive a knighthood and damehood for their services to film Credit: PA The gongs from the King will be awarded for their services to film. Born 30 July 1970, Nolan is regarded as a legendary film director, screenwriter, and producer. Chris’ films, which he typically co-writes with his brother Jonathan, mainly explore human morality and often are permeated by non-linear story-telling. He made his directorial debut with the 1998 neo-noir crime thriller Following before he gained mainstream attention for his follow-up feature, Memento which earned an Academy Award nomination. Earlier this month, London-born moviemaker Nolan won his first Oscar for directing the story of the “father of the atomic bomb”, played by
Irish star Cillian Murphy, who got the Best
Actor gong. Nolan, 53, had five previous Academy Award nominations for three films — Memento, Inception and Dunkirk — but had never won. Born to a
British father and
American mother, the director read English at University College
London — choosing it because of its filmmaking facilities. It was where he met Emma and the couple now have four children. Meanwhile, a major Tory party donor and four Conservative MPs are to get honours on the recommendation of PM Rishi Sunak. Mohamed Mansour, who gave the party £5million last year, gets a knighthood, as do Philip Davies and Mark Spencer. Tracey Crouch and Harriett Baldwin are to become Dames. Publisher