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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]

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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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Recipients

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Alfred Hitchcock was the inaugural winner in 1971.
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Charlie Chaplin won in 1976.
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Sir Laurence Olivier won in 1976.
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Sir David Attenborough in 1980
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Steven Spielberg in 1986
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Sir John Gielgud in 1992
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Dame Maggie Smith won in 1996.
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Woody Allen won in 1997.
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Stanley Kubrick won in 2000.
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Dame Judi Dench won in 2001.
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Sir Anthony Hopkins won in 2008.
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Martin Scorsese won in 2012.
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Dame Helen Mirren won in 2014.
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Mike Leigh won in 2015.
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Mel Brooks won in 2017.
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Thelma Schoonmaker won in 2019.
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Ang Lee won 2021.

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Notes

  1. [a]
    then Chair of the British Film Institute and Granada Television
  2. [b]
    member of Powell and Pressburger
  3. [c]
    member of Powell and Pressburger
  4. [d]
    First director of the National Film and Television School
  5. [e]
    member of Morecambe and Wise
  6. [f]
    member of Morecambe and Wise
  7. [g]
    Founded by director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant; First organisation to win the award
  8. [h]
    co-founder of Maxis
  9. [i]
    member of French and Saunders
  10. [j]
    member of French and Saunders
  11. [k]
    member of Monty Python
  12. [l]
    founder of Atari, Inc.
  13. [m]
    most notable for the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda series
  14. [n]
    (Harris's Fellowship was annulled on 30 June 2014 following his criminal conviction)
  15. [o]
    co-founder of Valve
  16. [p]
    member of Monty Python
  17. [q]
    most notable for the Grand Theft Auto series (accepted by Dan Houser, Sam Houser, Leslie Benzies, and Aaron Garbut)
  18. [r]
    founder of Frontier Developments
  19. [s]
    co-founder of id Software
  20. [t]
    founder of Double Fine
  21. [u]
    president of Lucasfilm since 2012
  22. [v]
    most notable for the Metal Gear series, founder of Kojima Productions
  23. [w]
    Media Molecule since 2009
  24. [x]
    former president of Sony Interactive Entertainment
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