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BAFTA Fellowship

FieldValue
nameBAFTA Fellowship
imagesize100px
captionStatue of the BAFTA Mask Award
awarded_forIn recognition of outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image
presenterBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
countryUnited Kingdom
year1971
websitebafta.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". The award is the highest honour the Academy can bestow, and has been awarded annually since 1971.

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 recognised 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.

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.

Recipients

1970s

YearRecipientProfessionNationality197119721973197419751976197719781979
Filmmaker and producer
Cinematographer
Producer
Filmmaker
Explorer / filmmaker
Filmmaker / Actor
Filmmaker / Actor
Director
Filmmaker
Media proprietor
Broadcaster / executive

1980s

YearRecipientProfessionNationality1980198119821983198419851986198719881989
Broadcaster / naturalist
Filmmaker / Actor
Filmmaker / producer
Filmmaker
Filmmaker
Filmmaker
Filmmaker / Actor
Journalist / television executive
Film producer
Television producer / executive
Filmmaker / producer
Filmmaker
Filmmaker
Actor

1990s

YearRecipientProfessionNationality1990199119921993199419951996199719981999
Television executive
Director
Actor
Executive / producer
First British Film Commissioner
Film educator
Broadcast executive
Filmmaker
Actress / Filmmaker
Cinematographer / Filmmaker
Filmmaker director
Actress
Filmmaker
Producer / writer
Actress
Cinematographer
Writer
Songwriter / composer
Actor
Producer / executive
Television Comedian
Television Comedian
Actress

2000s

YearRecipientProfessionNationality2000200120022003200420052006200720082009
Actor
Filmmaker
Media expert
Actor
Actor
Actress
Filmmaker / Actor
Merchant Ivory ProductionsFilm Company
Author / screenwriter
Actor
Film Producer
Television Actor
Filmmaker
Filmmaker
Film Composer
Television presenter
Film Producer
Film / television director
Film editor
Filmmaker
Games Designer
Actor
Television presenter
Television actress / comedian
Television actress / comedian
Filmmaker / comedian
Games Engineer

2010s

YearRecipientProfessionNationality2010201120122013201420152016201720182019
Actress
Games designer at Nintendo
Television broadcaster
Actor
Games designer
Television presenter
Filmmaker
Rolf Harris (rescinded)Television presenter
Filmmaker
Games developer
Actor / Comedian
Actress
Rockstar GamesGames developer and publisher
Actress
Filmmaker
Games programmer and designer
Television presenter
Actor
Games programmer / Engineer
Comedy writers
Filmmaker / Actor / Comedian
Television actress
Filmmaker
Games designer
Television journalist
Film editor
Television broadcaster

2020s

YearRecipientProfessionNationality202020212022202320242025
Kathleen KennedyProducer
Hideo KojimaGames designer
Siobhan ReddyGames director
Ang LeeFilmmaker
Television actor / comedian
Sandy PowellCostume designer
Games designer
Television Actor / Writer
Samantha MortonActress
Floella BenjaminTelevision presenter
Warwick DavisActor
Yoko ShimomuraGames composer
Kirsty WarkTelevision presenter

Notes

References

References

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