![]() "It's just not me," he said, adding that thousands of people were involved in executing the ceremony. “I tried to find out why I’d been given it and was unable to get a clear answer or, indeed, to find out who had proposed me," he said afterwards.įilm director Danny Boyle turned down an honour because he thought it was "was wrong" to claim credit for his work as the man behind the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony. He remains critical of the use of the term ‘Empire’ in our honours system. ![]() ![]() He declined an OBE in 2000, and then the Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow went on to make a documentary in 2002 entitled Secrets of the Honours System. “I turned down the OBE because it’s not a club you want to join when you look at the villains who’ve got it.” He told the Radio Times in 2001: “It’s all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploitation and conquest. His films focus on social issues such as poverty and homelessness. Nuneaton-born filmmaker Ken Loach (Image: Dominic Lipinski/PA)
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