BAFTA Fellowship

BAFTA Fellowship
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
Official website	Website

The BAFTA Fellowship, or the Academy Fellowship, is a lifetime achievement award^[1] presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) since 1971 "in recognition of outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image", and is the highest honour the Academy can bestow.^[2][3][4] Fellowship recipients have been mainly film directors, but some have also been awarded to actors, film and television producers, cinematographers, film editors, screenwriters and (since 2007) to contributors to the video game industry. 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. Shigeru Miyamoto, in 2010, became the first citizen of an Asian country to receive the award.

The inaugural recipient of the award was film-maker and producer Alfred Hitchcock. The award has been made posthumously to comedy pair Morecambe and Wise in 1999, and to Stanley Kubrick, who died that same year and was made a fellow in 2000.^[5][6] The most recent recipients were comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.^[7]

Fellowship Awards

Year	Country of citizenship	Fellow		Notes	Ref(s)
1971	United Kingdom		Hitchcock, AlfredAlfred Hitchcock	Filmmaker and producer	[8]
1972	United Kingdom	—	Young, FreddieFreddie Young	Cinematographer	[9]
1973	United Kingdom	—	Goldie, Grace WyndhamGrace Wyndham Goldie	Television producer	[9]
1974	United Kingdom	—	Lean, DavidDavid Lean	Filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and editor	[10]
1975	France		Cousteau, JacquesJacques Cousteau	Naval officer, explorer, ecologist and filmmaker	[9]
1976	United Kingdom		Chaplin, CharlieCharlie Chaplin	Filmmaker, actor, writer, director, producer, composer and editor	[8]
1976	United Kingdom		Olivier, LaurenceLaurence Olivier	Actor, director and producer	[8]
1977	United Kingdom	—	Forman, DenisDenis Forman	Director and then Chair of the British Film Institute and Granada Television	[9]
1978	United States	—	Zinnemann, FredFred Zinnemann	Film producer	[9]
1979	United Kingdom	—	Grade, LewLew Grade	Media proprietor	[11]
1979	United Kingdom	—	Wheldon, HuwHuw Wheldon	Broadcaster and executive	[9]
1980	United Kingdom		Attenborough, DavidDavid Attenborough	Broadcaster and naturalist	[12]
1980	United States		Huston, JohnJohn Huston	Actor, filmmaker and screenwriter	[9]
1981	France		Gance, AbelAbel Gance	Film director and producer	[9]
1981	United Kingdom	—	Powell, MichaelMichael Powell	Film director and member of Powell and Pressburger	[13]
1981	United Kingdom	—	Pressburger, EmericEmeric Pressburger	Screenwriter, film director, producer and member of Powell and Pressburger	[13]
1982	Poland		Wajda, AndrzejAndrzej Wajda	Film director	[9]
1983	United Kingdom		Attenborough, RichardRichard Attenborough	Actor, film director and producer	[14]
1984	United Kingdom	—	Greene, HughHugh Greene	Journalist and television executive	[9]
1984	Austria	—	Spiegel, SamSam Spiegel	Film producer	[9]
1985	United Kingdom	—	Isaacs, JeremyJeremy Isaacs	Television producer and executive	[9]
1986	United States		Spielberg, StevenSteven Spielberg	Film director, screenwriter and film producer	[8]
1987	Italy		Fellini, FedericoFederico Fellini	Film director	[10]
1988	Sweden		Bergman, IngmarIngmar Bergman	Film director, writer and producer	[10]
1989	United Kingdom		Guinness, AlecAlec Guinness	Actor	[9]
1990	United Kingdom	—	Fox, PaulPaul Fox	Television executive	[9]
1991	France	—	Malle, LouisLouis Malle	Film director	[9]
1992	United Kingdom		Gielgud, JohnJohn Gielgud	Actor	[15]
1992	United Kingdom	—	Plowright, DavidDavid Plowright	Television executive and producer	[16]
1993	United Kingdom	—	Samuelson, SydneySydney Samuelson	First British Film Commissioner	[17]
1993	United States	—	Young, ColinColin Young	First director of the National Film and Television School	[9][18]
1994	United Kingdom	—	Grade, MichaelMichael Grade	Broadcast executive	[9]
1995	United States		Wilder, BillyBilly Wilder	Journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer	[10]
1996	France		Moreau, JeanneJeanne Moreau	Actress, screenwriter, director	[19]
1996	United Kingdom		Neame, RonaldRonald Neame	Cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director	[9]
1996	United Kingdom	—	Schlesinger, JohnJohn Schlesinger	Film and stage director	[9]
1996	United Kingdom		Smith, MaggieMaggie Smith	Film, stage and television actress	[9]
1997	United States		Allen, WoodyWoody Allen	Film director, screenwriter, actor and playwright	[10]
1997	United States		Bochco, StevenSteven Bochco	Television producer and writer	[9]
1997	United Kingdom		Christie, JulieJulie Christie	Actress	[9]
1997	United States	—	Morris, OswaldOswald Morris	Cinematographer	[9]
1997	United Kingdom	—	Pinter, HaroldHarold Pinter	Playwright, screenwriter, actor and director	[20]
1997	United States		Rose, DavidDavid Rose	Songwriter, composer and arranger	[9]
1998	United Kingdom		Connery, SeanSean Connery	Actor	[21]
1998	United Kingdom	—	Cotton, BillBill Cotton	Television producer and executive	[22]
1999	United Kingdom	—	Morecambe, EricEric Morecambe	Television and stage actor, and member of Morecambe and Wise	[23]
1999	United Kingdom	—	Wise, ErnieErnie Wise	Television and stage actor, and member of Morecambe and Wise	[23]
1999	United Kingdom		Taylor, ElizabethElizabeth Taylor	Actress	[8]
2000	United Kingdom		Caine, MichaelMichael Caine	Actor	[5]
2000	United States		Kubrick, StanleyStanley Kubrick	Filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and photographer	[5]
2000	United Kingdom		Bazalgette, PeterPeter Bazalgette	Media expert	[24]
2001	United Kingdom		Finney, AlbertAlbert Finney	Actor	[25]
2001	United Kingdom	—	Thaw, JohnJohn Thaw	Actor	[26]
2001	United Kingdom		Dench, JudiJudi Dench	Actress	[27]
2002	United States		Beatty, WarrenWarren Beatty	Actor, producer, screenwriter and director	[28]
2002	—	—	Merchant Ivory Productions	Film company founded by director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant	[29]
2002	United Kingdom	—	Davies, AndrewAndrew Davies	Author and screenwriter	[8]
2002	United Kingdom	—	Mills, JohnJohn Mills	Actor	[30]
2003	United States	—	Zaentz, SaulSaul Zaentz	Film producer	[31]
2003	United Kingdom	—	Jason, DavidDavid Jason	Actor	[32]
2004	United Kingdom		Boorman, JohnJohn Boorman	Filmmaker	[33]
2004	United States	—	Graef, RogerRoger Graef	Criminologist and filmmaker	[34]
2005	United Kingdom		Barry, JohnJohn Barry	Composer	[35]
2005	United Kingdom		Frost, DavidDavid Frost	Writer, journalist and television presenter	[8]
2006	United Kingdom		Puttnam, DavidDavid Puttnam	Film producer	[36]
2006	United Kingdom		Loach, KenKen Loach	Film and television director	[37]
2007	United Kingdom	—	Coates, Anne V.Anne V. Coates	Film editor	[38]
2007	United Kingdom		Curtis, RichardRichard Curtis	Screenwriter, music producer, actor and film director	[8]
2007	United States		Wright, WillWill Wright	Video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis	[39]
2008	United Kingdom		Hopkins, AnthonyAnthony Hopkins	Film, stage and television actor	[8]
2008	United Kingdom		Forsyth, BruceBruce Forsyth	Television entertainer	[40]
2009	United Kingdom		French, DawnDawn French	Actress, writer, comedian, member of French & Saunders	[8]
2009	United Kingdom	—	Saunders, JenniferJennifer Saunders	Actress, screenwriter, comedian, member of French & Saunders	[8]
2009	United Kingdom		Gilliam, TerryTerry Gilliam	Writer, filmmaker, animator and member of Monty Python	[41]
2009	United States		Bushnell, NolanNolan Bushnell	Engineer, founder of Atari Inc.	[42]
2010	United Kingdom		Redgrave, VanessaVanessa Redgrave	Actress	[43]
2010	Japan		Miyamoto, ShigeruShigeru Miyamoto	Nintendo video game designer, created the Mario and The Legend of Zelda series.	[44]
2010	United Kingdom		Bragg, MelvynMelvyn Bragg	Author and broadcaster	[45]
2011	United Kingdom		Lee, ChristopherChristopher Lee	Actor and musician	[1][46]
2011	United Kingdom		Molyneux, PeterPeter Molyneux	Game designer	[47]
2011	United Kingdom	—	McDonald, TrevorTrevor McDonald	TV newsreader and presenter	[48]
2012	United States		Scorsese, MartinMartin Scorsese	Film director and producer	[49]
2012	Australia		Rolf Harris	Artist, musician and television presenter. Harris's Fellowship was annulled on 30 June 2014 following his criminal conviction.	[50][51]
2013	United Kingdom		Parker, AlanAlan Parker	Film director and screenwriter	[52]
2013	United States		Newell, GabeGabe Newell	Valve video game developer and CEO	[53]
2013	United Kingdom		Palin, MichaelMichael Palin	Comedian, actor, writer, television presenter and member of Monty Python	[54]
2014	United Kingdom		Mirren, HelenHelen Mirren	Actress	[55]
2014	United Kingdom  United States		Games, RockstarRockstar Games	Video game developer and publisher, created the Grand Theft Auto series (accepted by Dan Houser, Sam Houser, Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut)	[56]
2014	United Kingdom		Walters, JulieJulie Walters	Actress	[57]
2015	United Kingdom		Leigh, MikeMike Leigh	Writer, director	[58]
2015	United Kingdom		Braben, DavidDavid Braben	Video game designer, programmer	[59]
2015	United Kingdom		Snow, JonJon Snow	Journalist, television presenter	[60]
2016	United States		Poitier, SidneySidney Poitier	Actor, director	[61]
2016	United States		Carmack, JohnJohn Carmack	Video game programmer, virtual reality engineer	[62]
2016	United Kingdom	—	Galton, RayRay Galton	Comedy writer	[7]
2016	United Kingdom	—	Alan SimpsonAlan Simpson	Comedy writer	[7]

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External links

• BAFTA official site
• Fellows of BAFTA