The BAFTA Fellowship is lifetime achievement award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts

British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a charity in the United Kingdom that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.-Introduction:...

 (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. Fellowship recipients have been mainly film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

s, but some have also been awarded to actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

s, film

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 and television producer

Television producer

The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

s, cinematographer

Cinematographer

A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...

s, film editors, screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

s 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

Shigeru Miyamoto

is a Japanese video game designer and producer. Miyamoto was born and raised in Kyoto Prefecture; the natural surroundings of Kyoto inspired much of Miyamoto's later work....

, 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

Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...

. Twice the award has been made posthumously: to comedy pair Morecambe and Wise

Morecambe and Wise

Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, usually referred to as Morecambe and Wise, or Eric and Ernie, were a British comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television. Their partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984...

, recipients in 1999, and to Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career...

, who died that same year and was made a fellow in 2000. The most recent recipients were actor Sir Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...

, games designer, Peter Molyneux

Peter Molyneux

Peter Douglas Molyneux OBE is an English computer game designer and game programmer. He created the God games Dungeon Keeper, Populous, and Black & White, among others, as well as business simulation games such as Theme Park and more recently, the RPG series Fable.Despite the success of his games,...

 and TV newsreader and presenter, Sir Trevor McDonald in 2011.

Fellowship Awards

Year	Country of citizenship	Fellow		Notes	Ref(s)
1971				Filmmaker and producer
1972				Cinematographer
1973				Television producer
1974				Filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and editor
1975				Naval officer, explorer, ecologist and filmmaker
1976				Filmmaker, actor, writer, director, producer, composer and editor
1976				Actor, director and producer
1977				Director and then Chair of the British Film Institute British Film Institute The British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:-Cinemas:The BFI runs the BFI Southbank and IMAX theatre, both located on the south bank of the River Thames in London...
1978				Film producer
1979				Media proprietor
1979				Broadcaster and executive
1980				Broadcaster and naturalist
1980				Actor, filmmaker and screenwriter
1981				Film director and producer
1981				Film director and member of Powell and Pressburger Powell and Pressburger The British film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, also known as The Archers, made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1981 they were recognized for their contributions to British cinema with the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the most prestigious...
1981				Screenwriter, film director, producer and member of Powell and Pressburger Powell and Pressburger The British film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, also known as The Archers, made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1981 they were recognized for their contributions to British cinema with the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the most prestigious...
1982				Film director
1983				Actor, film director and producer
1984				Journalist and television executive
1984				Film producer
1985				Television producer and executive
1986				Film director, screenwriter and film producer
1987				Film director
1988				Film director, writer and producer
1989				Actor
1990				Television executive
1991				Film director
1992				Actor and singer
1992				Television executive and producer
1993				First British Film Commissioner
1993				First director of the National Film and Television School National Film and Television School The National Film and Television School was established in 1971 and is based at Beaconsfield Studios in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, and it is located close to Pinewood Studios.-History:...
1994				Broadcast executive
1995				Journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer
1996				Actress, screenwriter, director
1996				Cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director
1996				Film and stage director
1996				Film, stage and television actress
1997				Film director, screenwriter, actor and playwright
1997				Television producer and writer
1997				Actress
1997				Cinematographer
1997				Playwright, screenwriter, actor and director
1997				Songwriter, composer and arranger
1998				Actor
1998				Television producer and executive
1999				Television and stage actor, and member of Morecambe and Wise Morecambe and Wise Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, usually referred to as Morecambe and Wise, or Eric and Ernie, were a British comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television. Their partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984...
1999				Television and stage actor, and member of Morecambe and Wise Morecambe and Wise Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, usually referred to as Morecambe and Wise, or Eric and Ernie, were a British comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television. Their partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984...
1999				Actress
2000				Actor
2000				Filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and photographer
2000				Media expert
2001				Actor
2001				Actor
2001				Actress
2002				Actor, producer, screenwriter and director
2002			Merchant Ivory Productions Merchant Ivory Productions Merchant Ivory Productions is a film company founded in 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory. Their films were for the most part produced by the former, directed by the latter, and scripted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, with the noted exception of a few films. The films were often...	Film company founded by director James Ivory James Ivory (director) James Francis Ivory is an American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...  and producer Ismail Merchant Ismail Merchant Ismail Merchant was an Indian-born film producer, best known for the results of his famously long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included director James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...
2002				Author and screenwriter
2002				Actor
2003				Film producer
2003				Actor
2004				Filmmaker
2004				Criminologist and filmmaker
2005				Composer
2005				Writer, journalist and television presenter
2006				Film producer
2006				Film and television director
2007				Film editor
2007				Screenwriter, music producer, actor and film director
2007				Video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis Maxis Maxis is an American company founded as an independent video game developer in 1987. It is currently a subsidiary of Electronic Arts . Maxis is the creator of one of the best-selling computer games of all time, The Sims and its first sequel, The Sims 2...
2008				Film, stage and television actor
2008				Television entertainer
2009				Actress, writer, comedienne, member of French & Saunders French & Saunders French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act....
2009				Actress, screenwriter, comedienne, member of French & Saunders French & Saunders French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act....
2009				Writer, filmmaker, animator and member of Monty Python Monty Python Monty Python was a British surreal comedy group who created their influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series...
2009				Engineer, founder of Atari Inc.
2010				Actress
2010				Nintendo Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....  video game designer, created Mario Mario is a fictional character in his video game series, created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Serving as Nintendo's mascot and the main protagonist of the series, Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his creation... , Zelda Princess Zelda is the name of a fictional character in The Legend of Zelda series of video games. The name has applied to every female member of Hyrule's royal family, which includes several distinct characters in Hyrule legend. Though she is the eponymous character, the player controls the main protagonist, Link... , Wii Wii The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others... , Wii Fit Wii Fit is a video game developed by Nintendo for the company's home video game console, Wii, designed by Hiroshi Matsunaga. It is an exercise game consisting of activities using the Wii Balance Board peripheral...
2010				Author and broadcaster
2011				Actor and musician
2011				Game designer
2011				TV newsreader and presenter