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.
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
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.