The full list of BAFTA Chairs, from David Lean in 1947 to the present day
Current Chair
2020 - 2023 | Krishnendu Majumdar
Copyright: Harry Richards
Previous Chairs
- 2018 - 2020 | July - June | Dame Pippa Harris DBE
- 2016 - 2018 | July - June | Jane Lush
- 2014 - 2016 | July - June | Anne Morrison
- 2012 - 2014 | July - June | John Willis
- 2010 - 2012 | July - June | Tim Corrie
- 2008 - 2010 | July - June | David Parfitt
- 2006 - 2008 | July - June | Hilary Bevan Jones
- 2004 - 2006 | July - June | Duncan Kenworthy OBE
- 2002 - 2004 | July - June | Michael Attwell
- 2000 - 2002 | July - June | Simon Relph CBE
- 1997 - 2000 | July - June | Tim Angel OBE
- 1995 - 1997 | July - June | Edward Mirzoeff CVO CBE
- 1993 - 1995 | July - June | Ted Childs OBE
- 1991 - 1993 | July - June | Richard Price MBE
- 1989 - 1991 | July - June | Kevin Billington
- 1987 - 1989 | June - May | Johnny Goodman
- 1985 - 1987 | May - May | Graham Benson
- 1983 - 1985 | May - April | James Cellan Jones
- 1981 - 1983 | April - April | Timothy Burrill
- 1979 - 1981 | April - March | Mike Wooller
- 1976 - 1979 | April - March | Richard Cawston CVO
- 1973 - 1976 | March - March | Sir Sydney Samuelson CBE
- 1971 - 1973 | April - February | Aubrey Singer
- 1969 - 1971 | January - March | Richard Attenborough CBE
- 1968 | January - December | Peter Morley OBE
- 1967 | January - December | Edgar Anstey
- 1966 | January - December | Christopher Morahan CBE
- 1965 | January - December | Lord Birkett
- 1964 | January - December | James Bredin
- 1962 - 1963 | January - December | Anthony Havelock-Allan
- 1961 - 1962 | January - December | Peter De Sarigny
- 1960 | January - December | Bill Ward
- 1959 - 1960 | January - December | Sir Michael Balcon
- 1958 - 1959 | May - December | James Lawrie
- 1957 - 1958 | May - April | Ian Dalrymple
- 1956 - 1957 | April - April | Edgar Anstey
- 1955 - 1956 | May - March | John Bryan
- 1954 - 1955 | April - March | Anthony Havelock-Allan
- 1953 - 1954 | May - March | Carol Reed
- 1952 - 1953 | April - March | Thorold Dickinson
- 1951 - 1952 | May - March | Paul Rotha
- 1950 - 1951 | May - April | Ronald Neame
- 1948-1950 | November - April | Sir Michael Balcon
- 1947 - 1948 | November - October | David Lean
