Steven Spielberg, the Hollywood studio boss and director whose catalogue stretches from Jaws to Saving Private Ryan, is about to join the select club of foreign citizens with a British knighthood.
In the United States, it includes such figures as Ronald Reagan, Bob Hope and Colin Powell.
Spielberg, who has made several of his biggest films in Britain, will receive the honorary knighthood at the British Embassy in Washington on January 29.
He will be able to put KBE after his name, but not use the title "Sir."
The 53-year-old co-founder of the Dreamworks SKG studio used mainly British facilities for Saving Private Ryan, his $150 million Second World War epic.
His most recent project, Band of Brothers, a television mini-series he co-produced with Tom Hanks, was made this year in north London. It deals with the wartime adventures of an American airborne division.
- HERALD CORRESPONDENT
Spielberg to receive British knighthood
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