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 Alfred Hitchcock. It has been given 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. 2012 winner Rolf Harris is the only person to have had the award subsequently annulled.
Recipients
1970s Year Recipient Profession Nationality 1971 Filmmaker and producer 1972 Cinematographer 1973 Producer 1974 Filmmaker 1975 Explorer / filmmaker 1976 Filmmaker / Actor Filmmaker / Actor 1977 Director 1978 Filmmaker 1979 Media proprietor Broadcaster / executive
1980s Year Recipient Profession Nationality 1980 Broadcaster / naturalist Filmmaker / Actor 1981 Filmmaker / producer Filmmaker Filmmaker 1982 Filmmaker 1983 Filmmaker / Actor 1984 Journalist / television executive Film producer 1985 Television producer / executive 1986 Filmmaker / producer 1987 Filmmaker 1988 Filmmaker 1989 Actor
1990s Year Recipient Profession Nationality 1990 Television executive 1991 Director 1992 Actor Executive / producer 1993 First British Film Commissioner Film educator 1994 Broadcast executive 1995 Filmmaker 1996 Actress / Filmmaker Cinematographer / Filmmaker Filmmaker director Actress 1997 Filmmaker Producer / writer Actress Cinematographer Writer Songwriter / composer 1998 Actor Producer / executive 1999 Television Comedian Television Comedian Actress
2000s Year Recipient Profession Nationality 2000 Actor Filmmaker Media expert 2001 Actor Actor Actress 2002 Filmmaker / Actor Merchant Ivory Productions Film Company Author / screenwriter Actor 2003 Film Producer Television Actor 2004 Filmmaker Filmmaker 2005 Film Composer Television presenter 2006 Film Producer Film / television director 2007 Film editor Filmmaker Games Designer 2008 Actor Television presenter 2009 Television actress / comedian Television actress / comedian Filmmaker / comedian Games Engineer
2010s Year Recipient Profession Nationality 2010 Actress Games designer at Nintendo Television broadcaster 2011 Actor Games designer Television presenter 2012 Filmmaker Rolf Harris (rescinded) Television presenter 2013 Filmmaker Games developer Actor / Comedian 2014 Actress Rockstar Games Games developer and publisher Actress 2015 Filmmaker Games programmer and designer Television presenter 2016 Actor Games programmer / Engineer Comedy writers 2017 Filmmaker / Actor / Comedian Television actress 2018 Filmmaker Games designer Television journalist 2019 Film editor Television broadcaster
2020s Year Recipient Profession Nationality 2020 Kathleen Kennedy Producer Hideo Kojima Games designer 2021 Siobhan Reddy Games director Ang Lee Filmmaker 2022 Television actor / comedian 2023 Sandy Powell Costume designer Games designer Television Actor / Writer 2024 Samantha Morton Actress Floella Benjamin Television presenter 2025 Warwick Davis Actor Yoko Shimomura Games composer Kirsty Wark Television presenter 2026 Donna Langley Film executive Ilkka Paananen Video game executive Mary BerryFood writer, chef, baker and television presenter Duncan KenworthyFilm and television producer
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References
External links BAFTA official site Fellows of BAFTA Full List of BAFTA Fellows