BAFTA Fellowship
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.
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 awarded | 1971 |
Website | bafta.org |
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.
Recipients
Year | Country of citizenship | Fellow | Contribution | Notes | Ref(s) | |
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1971 | United Kingdom | Alfred Hitchcock | Film | Filmmaker and producer | [6] | |
1972 | United Kingdom | Freddie Young | Film | Cinematographer | [7] | |
1973 | United Kingdom | — |
Grace Wyndham Goldie | Television | Producer | [7] |
1974 | United Kingdom | David Lean | Film | Filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and editor | [8] | |
1975 | France | Jacques Cousteau | Film | Explorer, ecologist and filmmaker | [7] | |
1976 | United Kingdom | Charlie Chaplin | Film | Filmmaker, actor, writer, director, producer, composer and editor | [6] | |
United Kingdom | Laurence Olivier | Film | Actor, director and producer | [6] | ||
1977 | United Kingdom | — |
Denis Forman | Television | Director and then Chair of the British Film Institute and Granada Television | [7] |
1978 | United States | Fred Zinnemann | Film | Film director | [7] | |
1979 | United Kingdom | Lew Grade | Television | Media proprietor | [9] | |
United Kingdom | Huw Wheldon | Television | Broadcaster and executive | [7] | ||
1980 | United Kingdom | David Attenborough | Television | Broadcaster and naturalist | [10] | |
United States | John Huston | Film | Actor, filmmaker and screenwriter | [7] | ||
1981 | France | Abel Gance | Film | Film director and producer | [7] | |
United Kingdom | Michael Powell | Film | Film director and member of Powell and Pressburger | [11] | ||
United Kingdom Hungary |
Emeric Pressburger | Film | Screenwriter, film director, producer and member of Powell and Pressburger | [11] | ||
1982 | Poland | Andrzej Wajda | Film | Film director | [7] | |
1983 | United Kingdom | Richard Attenborough | Film | Actor, film director and producer | [12] | |
1984 | United Kingdom | Hugh Greene | Television | Journalist and television executive | [7] | |
Austria | Sam Spiegel | Film | Film producer | [7] | ||
1985 | United Kingdom | — |
Jeremy Isaacs | Television | Television producer and executive | [7] |
1986 | United States | Steven Spielberg | Film | Director, screenwriter and film producer | [6] | |
1987 | Italy | Federico Fellini | Film | Director | [8] | |
1988 | Sweden | Ingmar Bergman | Film | Director, writer and producer | [8] | |
1989 | United Kingdom | Alec Guinness | Film | Actor | [7] | |
1990 | United Kingdom | — |
Paul Fox | Television | Television executive | [7] |
1991 | France | Louis Malle | Film | Director | [7] | |
1992 | United Kingdom | John Gielgud | Film | Actor | [13] | |
United Kingdom | — |
David Plowright | Television | Executive and producer | [14] | |
1993 | United Kingdom | — |
Sydney Samuelson | Film | First British Film Commissioner | [15] |
United States | — |
Colin Young | Film | First director of the National Film and Television School | [7][16] | |
1994 | United Kingdom | Michael Grade | Television | Broadcast executive | [7] | |
1995 | United States | Billy Wilder | Film | Journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer | [8] | |
1996 | France | Jeanne Moreau | Film | Actress, screenwriter and director | [17] | |
United Kingdom | Ronald Neame | Film | Cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director | [7] | ||
United Kingdom | John Schlesinger | Film | Film and stage director | [7] | ||
United Kingdom | Maggie Smith | Film | Film, stage and television actress | [7] | ||
1997 | United States | Woody Allen | Film | Director, screenwriter, actor and playwright | [8] | |
United States | Steven Bochco | Television | Producer and writer | [7] | ||
United Kingdom | Julie Christie | Film | Actress | [7] | ||
United States | — |
Oswald Morris | Film | Cinematographer | [7] | |
United Kingdom | Harold Pinter | Film | Playwright, screenwriter, actor and director | [18] | ||
United States | David Rose | Television | Songwriter, composer and arranger | [7] | ||
1998 | United Kingdom | Sean Connery | Film | Actor | [19] | |
United Kingdom | Bill Cotton | Television | Producer and executive | [20] | ||
1999 | United Kingdom | Eric Morecambe | Television | Television and stage actor, and member of Morecambe and Wise | [21] | |
United Kingdom | Ernie Wise | Television | Television and stage actor, and member of Morecambe and Wise | [21] | ||
United Kingdom | Elizabeth Taylor | Film | Actress | [6] | ||
2000 | United Kingdom | Michael Caine | Film | Actor | [4] | |
United States | Stanley Kubrick | Film | Filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and photographer | [4] | ||
United Kingdom | Peter Bazalgette | Television | Media expert | [22] | ||
2001 | United Kingdom | Albert Finney | Film | Actor | [23] | |
United Kingdom | John Thaw | Television | Actor | [24] | ||
United Kingdom | Judi Dench | Film | Actress | [25] | ||
2002 | United States | Warren Beatty | Film | Actor, producer, screenwriter and director | [26] | |
— |
— |
Merchant Ivory Productions | Film | Founded by director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant First organisation to win the award |
[27] | |
United Kingdom | Andrew Davies | Television | Author and screenwriter | [6] | ||
United Kingdom | — |
John Mills | Film | Actor | [28] | |
2003 | United States | Saul Zaentz | Film | Producer | [29] | |
United Kingdom | David Jason | Television | Actor | [30] | ||
2004 | United Kingdom | John Boorman | Film | Filmmaker | [31] | |
United States | — |
Roger Graef | Film | Filmmaker | [32] | |
2005 | United Kingdom | John Barry | Film | Composer | [33] | |
United Kingdom | David Frost | Television | Writer, journalist and presenter | [6] | ||
2006 | United Kingdom | David Puttnam | Film | Producer | [34] | |
United Kingdom | Ken Loach | Television | Film and television director | [35] | ||
2007 | United Kingdom | Anne V. Coates | Film | Film editor | [36] | |
United Kingdom | Richard Curtis | Film | Screenwriter, music producer, actor and film director | [6] | ||
United States | Will Wright | Games | Designer and co-founder of Maxis | [37] | ||
2008 | United Kingdom | Anthony Hopkins | Film | Film, stage and television actor | [6] | |
United Kingdom | Bruce Forsyth | Television | Entertainer and presenter | [38] | ||
2009 | United Kingdom | Dawn French | Television | Actress, writer, comedian and member of French and Saunders | [6] | |
United Kingdom | Jennifer Saunders | Television | Actress, screenwriter, comedian and member of French and Saunders | [6] | ||
United Kingdom | Terry Gilliam | Film | Writer, filmmaker, animator and member of Monty Python | [39] | ||
United States | Nolan Bushnell | Games | Engineer, founder of Atari, Inc. | [40] | ||
2010 | United Kingdom | Vanessa Redgrave | Film | Actress | [41] | |
Japan | Shigeru Miyamoto | Games | Game designer at Nintendo, most notable for the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda series | [42] | ||
United Kingdom | Melvyn Bragg | Television | Author and broadcaster | [43] | ||
2011 | United Kingdom | Christopher Lee | Film | Actor and musician | [1][44] | |
United Kingdom | Peter Molyneux | Games | Designer | [45] | ||
United Kingdom Trinidad and Tobago |
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Trevor McDonald | Television | Newsreader and presenter | [46] | |
2012 | United States | Martin Scorsese | Film | Film director and producer | [47] | |
Artist, musician and television presenter (Harris's Fellowship was annulled on 30 June 2014 following his criminal conviction) |
[48] | |||||
2013 | United Kingdom | Alan Parker | Film | Director and screenwriter | [49] | |
United States | Gabe Newell | Games | Developer and co-founder of Valve | [50] | ||
United Kingdom | Michael Palin | Television | Comedian, actor, writer, presenter and member of Monty Python | [51] | ||
2014 | United Kingdom | Helen Mirren | Film | Actress | [52] | |
United Kingdom United States |
Rockstar Games | Games | Developer and publisher, most notable for the Grand Theft Auto series (accepted by Dan Houser, Sam Houser, Leslie Benzies, and Aaron Garbut) |
[53] | ||
United Kingdom | Julie Walters | Television | Actress | [54] | ||
2015 | United Kingdom | Mike Leigh | Film | Writer and director | [55] | |
United Kingdom | David Braben | Games | Programmer and designer, founder of Frontier Developments | [56] | ||
United Kingdom | Jon Snow | Television | Journalist and presenter | [57] | ||
2016 | United States Bahamas |
Sidney Poitier | Film | Actor and director | [58] | |
United States | John Carmack | Games | Programmer, virtual reality engineer, co-founder of id Software | [59] | ||
United Kingdom | Ray Galton | Television | Comedy writers | [60] | ||
United Kingdom | Alan Simpson | [60] | ||||
2017 | United States | Mel Brooks | Film | Actor, comedian and filmmaker | [61] | |
United Kingdom | Joanna Lumley | Television | Actress | [62] | ||
2018 | United Kingdom | Ridley Scott | Film | Director and producer | [63] | |
United States | Tim Schafer | Games | Game designer, founder of Double Fine | [64] | ||
United Kingdom | Kate Adie | Television | Journalist | [65] | ||
2019 | United States | Thelma Schoonmaker | Film | Film editor | [66] | |
United Kingdom | Joan Bakewell | Television | Journalist and broadcaster | [67] | ||
2020 | United States | Kathleen Kennedy | Film | Producer, president of Lucasfilm since 2012 | [68] | |
Japan | Hideo Kojima | Games | Game designer, most notable for the Metal Gear series, founder of Kojima Productions | [69] | ||
2021 | United Kingdom | Siobhan Reddy | Games | Studio director of Media Molecule since 2009 | [70] | |
Taiwan | Ang Lee | Film | Director, screenwriter and producer | [71] | ||
2022 | United Kingdom | Billy Connolly | Television | Actor, comedian, artist, writer, musician and presenter | [72] | |
2023 | United Kingdom | Sandy Powell | Film | Costume designer | [73] | |
Japan | Shuhei Yoshida | Games | Game designer and former president of Sony Interactive Entertainment | [74] | ||
United Kingdom | Meera Syal | Television | Screenwriter, producer and actor | [75] |
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