BAFTA Fellowship | |
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Awarded for | In recognition of outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image |
Country | United Kingdom |
Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) |
First award | 1971 |
Website | bafta.org |
The BAFTA Fellowship, or the Academy Fellowship, is a lifetime achievement award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in recognition of "outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image". [1] The award is the highest honour the Academy can bestow, and has been awarded annually since 1971. [2] [3]
Fellowship recipients have mainly been film directors, but some have been awarded to actors, film/television producers, cinematographers, film editors, screenwriters, and (since 2007) contributors to the video game industry. In 2002, Merchant Ivory Productions became the first organisation to win the award. People from the United Kingdom dominate the list, but it includes over a dozen U.S. citizens and several from other countries in Europe, though none of the latter have been recognized since 1996. In 2010, Shigeru Miyamoto became the first citizen of an Asian country to receive the award.
The inaugural recipient of the award was the filmmaker and producer Alfred Hitchcock. The award has been made posthumously to the comedy pair Morecambe and Wise in 1999, and to Stanley Kubrick, who died that year and was made a fellow in 2000. [4] [5]
Overall, 88 men have won the award, and 17 women. 2012 winner Rolf Harris is the only person to have had the award subsequently annulled.
Year | Recipient | Profession | Nationality | Ref. |
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1971 | Alfred Hitchcock | Filmmaker and producer | ![]() | [6] |
1972 | Freddie Young | Cinematographer | ![]() | [7] |
1973 | Grace Wyndham Goldie | Producer | ![]() | [7] |
1974 | David Lean | Filmmaker | ![]() | [8] |
1975 | Jacques Cousteau | Explorer / filmmaker | ![]() | [7] |
1976 | Charlie Chaplin | Filmmaker / Actor | ![]() | [6] |
Laurence Olivier | Filmmaker / Actor | ![]() | [6] | |
1977 | Denis Forman | Director [a] | ![]() | [7] |
1978 | Fred Zinnemann | Filmmaker | ![]() | [7] |
1979 | Lew Grade | Media proprietor | ![]() | [9] |
Huw Wheldon | Broadcaster / executive | ![]() | [7] | |
Year | Recipient | Profession | Nationality | Ref. |
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1980 | David Attenborough | Broadcaster / naturalist | ![]() | [10] |
John Huston | Filmmaker / Actor | ![]() | [7] | |
1981 | Abel Gance | Filmmaker / producer | ![]() | [7] |
Michael Powell | Filmmaker [b] | ![]() | [11] | |
Emeric Pressburger | Filmmaker [c] | ![]() ![]() | [11] | |
1982 | Andrzej Wajda | Filmmaker | ![]() | [7] |
1983 | Richard Attenborough | Filmmaker / Actor | ![]() | [12] |
1984 | Hugh Greene | Journalist / television executive | ![]() | [7] |
Sam Spiegel | Film producer | ![]() | [7] | |
1985 | Jeremy Isaacs | Television producer / executive | ![]() | [7] |
1986 | Steven Spielberg | Filmmaker / producer | ![]() | [6] |
1987 | Federico Fellini | Filmmaker | ![]() | [8] |
1988 | Ingmar Bergman | Filmmaker | ![]() | [8] |
1989 | Alec Guinness | Actor | ![]() | [7] |
Year | Recipient | Profession | Nationality | Ref. |
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2020 | Kathleen Kennedy | Producer [u] | ![]() | [68] |
Hideo Kojima | Games designer [v] | ![]() | [69] | |
2021 | Siobhan Reddy | Games director [w] | ![]() | [70] |
Ang Lee | Filmmaker | ![]() | [71] | |
2022 | Billy Connolly | Television actor / comedian | ![]() | [72] |
2023 | Sandy Powell | Costume designer | ![]() | [73] |
Shuhei Yoshida | Games designer [x] | ![]() | [74] | |
Meera Syal | Television Actor / Writer | ![]() | [75] | |
2024 | Samantha Morton | Actress | ![]() | [76] |
Floella Benjamin | Television presenter | ![]() | [77] | |
2025 | Warwick Davis | Actor | ![]() | [78] |
Yoko Shimomura | Games composer | ![]() | [79] | |
Kirsty Wark | Television presenter | ![]() | [80] | |
... the prestigious honour ...
... awarded a prestigious Bafta fellowship for his work ...
Awarded annually, the Fellowship is the highest accolade BAFTA can bestow on any one figure