Oscar-winning Star Wars composer John Williams has joined former Disney CEO Bob Iger to grow to be one of many two closing honorary knighthoods the Queen conferred earlier than her demise aged 96 on September 8.
The information was revealed on Friday by the UK Authorities’s official web site, which said that Her Majesty had authorised all the honorary British awards to international nationals earlier this yr.
Williams and Iger have each been granted KBEs, making them identified now, extra formally, as Knight Commanders of the Most Wonderful Order of the British Empire.
Honorary knighthoods are appointed to residents of countries the place the monarch shouldn't be head of state, allowing use of post-nominal letters (KBE) however not the title of Sir or Dame.
Williams, who has earned a staggering 52 Oscar nominations all through the course of his profession to this point, and is greatest identified for the music he wrote for movies like Star Wars, Harry Potter, Jaws and E.T. the Additional-Terrestrial, was given his distinction for companies to movie music.
Iger, who served as chairman and CEO of Disney for 15 years from 2005 to 2020, acquired his for companies to UK/US relations.
Throughout his time in cost on the firm, he led Disney’s acquisition of Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm – the manufacturing firm behind Star Wars and Indian Jones – in addition to increasing the corporate’s parks in Asia with the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland Resort and Shanghai Disney Resort in 2005 and 2016.
The businessman wrote on Twitter: ‘It is among the nice honours of my life to have the honorary Knight of the British Empire conferred on me by Queen Elizabeth II earlier than she handed.
‘I've nice affection for the folks of the UK & have all the time appreciated and been impressed by their extraordinary contributions.’
Referencing his fellow KBE, he added: ‘And particular congratulations to John Williams. It's an honour for me to hitch him as an Honorary Knight! I've all the time been in awe of his work. Might the drive be with him!’
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On the listing of the Queen’s closing authorised honours, there have been additionally honorary CBEs, MBEs and OBEs amongst different awards, as she recognised non-British diplomats, scientists, educators and healthcare employees.
Williams is at present working away on the rating for the Indiana Jones 5, starring Harrison Jones as soon as extra, revealing in August that he was about 30% achieved.
Having celebrated his ninetieth birthday earlier this yr, the musical maestro additionally stated that he would ‘love’ to compose the music for a movie in thefranchise.
The residing legend has scored a lot of cinema historical past already, who wouldn’t need to see (or hear) that occur for the subsequent Bond film?
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