The BAFTA Fellowship, or the Academy Fellowship, is a lifetime achievement award presented by the
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
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(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
actor
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s,
film/
television producer
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s,
cinematographers,
film editor
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The film ed ...
s,
screenwriters and (since 2007) contributors to the
video game
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industry. In 2002,
Merchant Ivory Productions
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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, with
video game design
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er
Hideo Kojima becoming the second in 2020.
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
Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholomew, 14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984) and Ernie Wise (Ernest Wiseman, 27 November 1925 – 21 March 1999), known as Morecambe and Wise (and sometimes as Eric and Ernie), were an English comic double act, working ...
, in 1999, and to
Stanley Kubrick, who died that year and was made a fellow in 2000.
Recipients
References
External links
BAFTA official site
Fellows of BAFTA
Full List of BAFTA Fellows
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British Academy Film Awards
Lifetime achievement awards
Awards established in 1971
1971 establishments in the United Kingdom