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