The wider world may know him best as James Bond, his five film, 16 year stint now at an end after the smash hit No Time To Die (which features ILM VFX) but here in the GFFA we also know Daniel Craig as the Force-influenced First Order Stormtrooper who releases Rey from her bonds and allows her to escape Kylo Ren in The Force Awakens. In the 2022 New Years Honours List Craig has been made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, the same honour bestowed on (but refused thanks to M) his fictional counterpart Bond in the 1957 novel From Russia With Love.
Daniel Craig, who bowed out as James Bond with this year’s movie No Time to Die, has been made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.
It is the same honour that the fictional spy himself received, and which author Ian Fleming wrote in the 1957 novel From Russia With Love, was usually given “on retirement from the Secret Service”.
Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, who are tasked with choosing Craig’s successor, have both become CBEs for services to film, drama, philanthropy and skills.
