The Oppenheimer creator will be honoured alongside his wife.
Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan will be honoured with a knighthood for his services to film, along with his wife and co-producer Emma Thomas.
The UK government have confirmed that the pair will receive the esteemed titles in England this year.
Nolan will receive a knighthood and Thomas will be made a dame during the ceremony.
Their recognition on home soil comes a month after their biopic Oppenheimer swept the 2024 Oscars in Los Angeles.
The blockbuster picked up a whopping 13 wins at the Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, which went to Irishman Cillian Murphy who played the role of J Robert Oppenheimer.
Nolan and Thomas met while they were students at University College London and they married in 1997.
They have four children together and live in Los Angeles.
During the acceptance speech for Best Picture, 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.”
The Best Director win was Nolan’s first, having previously been nominated for 2017’s Dunkirk.
The married couple 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.
53-year-old Nolan studied English at University College London, where his interest in filmmaking deepened thanks to the production facilities available at the university at the time.
Nolan and Thomas co-founded the production company Syncopy in 2001, a year after their first box office success with Memento in the year of the millenium.
Only a few days after winning his first Best Director golden statuette, Nolan was reportedly already working on his next movie.
The Englishman teased the prospect of taking on a new genre with his next project.
Speaking at an in-conversation event at at London’s British Film Institute in February, he said, “I think horror films are very interesting because they depend on very cinematic devices, it really is about a visceral response to things and so, at some point, I’d love to make a horror film.
“But I think a really good horror film requires a really exceptional idea. And those are few and far between. So I haven’t found a story that lends itself to that.”
However, he did add that horrors “have a lot of bleakness,” so we can probably rule that one out for the time being.
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