The phrase "awarded the illustrious" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone receiving a prestigious award or recognition.
Example: "She was awarded the illustrious title of 'Best Innovator' at the annual conference."
Alternatives: "granted the esteemed" or "bestowed the prestigious".
Shakur, known to the world as 2Pac, will be awarded the star for his illustrious recording career.
She was also awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award which recognizes the illustrious career of a senior researcher whose work has significantly advanced the research areas of the American Society for Photobiology (ASP), at the ASP Biennial meeting in May 2018.
During his long, illustrious career, Mr. Simpson was awarded the two highest honors bestowed by the University: the Gold Medal for Outstanding Scholar in 1913 and, at Charter Day in 1960, a Doctor of Laws degree for his many years of distinguished public service.
Alexander Kolpin was considered the world's best ballet dancer in 1993 when he was awarded the "Benoir Prize of Dance" and his illustrious career in the dance world continued before he retired to concentrate entirely on his hotel business.
The Pakistan-born British poet Imtiaz Dharker has been awarded the Queen's gold medal for poetry, joining an illustrious roll call that includes WH Auden, Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes.
Correctly awarded the Scottish Premier League's player of the month award for October, the midfielder also showed in successive matches against the European champions that he is perfectly capable of holding his own in such illustrious company.
Commenting on the fact it has been 13 years since a grime artist was nominated and picked up the illustrious award, Adenuga refused to attribute the success of his fourth album solely to an increased recognition of grime in popular music.
The winners of each award are expected to join the illustrious judging committee for the following year's nominees; the selection committee for the 2014 Fundamental Physics prize included Professor Stephen Hawking, who won a $3m prize last year.
Roeg will accept the award, joining illustrious and varied past winners including Dirk Bogarde, Lewis Gilbert, Quentin Tarantino and Kristin Scott Thomas, during the annual ceremony at BFI Southbank.
On Tuesday night, the orchestra gave a concert marking the award of the first Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music to the illustrious French composer Henri Dutilleux, whose music has been highly valued in America for the last half century.
