The brother and sister team behind the James Bond films, Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, are both made OBEs, as is Iain Smith, the producer behind movies such as The Fifth Element and Children of Men.
After the law passed, the top two senators involved in the negotiations -- Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, and James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican -- released a join statement praising the bipartisan work.
Then a marine geologist, James Kennett of the University of California, Santa Barbara, said he had found evidence of the impact of a large object from space 12, 900 years ago, in the form of carbon spherules in silt.