BAFTA Fellowship

BAFTA Fellowship
Awarded forIn recognition of outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
First awarded1971
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".[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/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.

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]

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.

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  2. ^ "Harry Hill takes Bafta TV prize". BBC News. 22 April 2009. Archived from the original on 27 April 2009. Retrieved 5 July 2009. ... the prestigious honour ...
    – Wells, Matt (27 April 2002). "TV to screen story of warrior queen". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2009. ... awarded a prestigious Bafta fellowship for his work ...
  3. ^ "The Fellowship: BAFTA's top prize". BAFTA. Archived from the original on 13 May 2019. Retrieved 13 May 2019. Awarded annually, the Fellowship is the highest accolade BAFTA can bestow on any one figure
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