Awarded annually, the Fellowship is the highest accolade BAFTA can bestow on any one figure, recognising an exceptional contribution to film, television or games.
BAFTA Fellows
1971 Alfred Hitchcock
1972 Freddie Young OBE
1973 Grace Wyndham Goldie
1974 David Lean
1975 Jacques Cousteau
1976 Sir Charles Chaplin
1976 Lord Olivier
1977 Sir Denis Forman
1978 Fred Zinnemann
1979 Lord Grade
1979 Sir Huw Wheldon
1980 David Attenborough CBE
1980 John Huston
1981 Abel Gance
1981 Michael Powell
1981 Emeric Pressburger
1982 Andrzej Wajda
1983 Sir Richard Attenborough CBE
1984 Sir Hugh Greene
1984 Sam Spiegel
1985 Jeremy Isaacs
1986 Steven Spielberg
1987 Federico Fellini
1988 Ingmar Bergman
1989 Sir Alec Guinness CH, CBE
1990 Paul Fox
1991 Louis Malle
1992 Sir John Gielgud
1992 David Plowright
1993 Sydney Samuelson CBE
1993 Colin Young CBE
1994 Michael Grade CBE
1995 Billy Wilder
1996 Jeanne Moreau
1996 Ronald Neame CBE
1996 John Schlesinger CBE
1996 Dame Maggie Smith
1997 Woody Allen
1997 Steven Bochco
1997 Julie Christie
1997 Oswald Morris OBE
1997 Harold Pinter CBE
1997 David Rose
1998 Sean Connery
1998 Bill Cotton CBE
1999 Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise
1999 Elizabeth Taylor
2000 Michael Caine
2000 Stanley Kubrick (posthumous)
2000 Peter Bazalgette
2001 Albert Finney
2001 John Thaw
2001 Dame Judi Dench
2002 Warren Beatty
2002 Merchant Ivory Productions
2002 Andrew Davies
2002 Sir John Mills
2003 Saul Zaentz
2003 David Jason
2004 John Boorman
2004 Roger Graef
2005 John Barry OBE
2005 Sir David Frost OBE
2006 Lord Puttnam CBE
2006 Ken Loach
2007 Anne V Coates OBE
2007 Richard Curtis CBE
2007 Will Wright
2008 Sir Anthony Hopkins CBE
2008 Bruce Forsyth CBE
2009 Terry Gilliam
2009 Nolan Bushnell
2009 Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders
2010 Vanessa Redgrave CBE
2010 Shigeru Miyamoto
2010 Lord Bragg
2011 Sir Christopher Lee CBE
2011 Peter Molyneux OBE
2011 Sir Trevor McDonald OBE
2012 Martin Scorsese
2013 Sir Alan Parker
2013 Gabe Newell
2013 Michael Palin CBE
2014 Dame Helen Mirren
2014 Rockstar Games
2014 Julie Walters CBE
2015 Mike Leigh
2015 David Braben OBE
2015 Jon Snow
2016 Sir Sidney Poitier
2016 John Carmack
2016 Ray Galton OBE & Alan Simpson OBE
2017 Mel Brooks
2017 Joanna Lumley OBE
2018 Sir Ridley Scott
2018 Tim Schafer
2018 Kate Adie OBE
2019 Thelma Schoonmaker
2019 Dame Joan Bakewell DBE
2020 Kathleen Kennedy
2020 Hideo Kojima
2021 Siobhan Reddy
2021 Ang Lee
2022 Sir Billy Connolly
2023 Sandy Powell
2023 Shuhei Yoshida
2023 Meera Syal
