British Film Institute Fellowship

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British Film Institute Fellowship
Descriptionoutstanding contribution to film or television culture
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBritish Film Institute
First awarded1983
WebsiteBFI Fellows

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a charitable organisation established in 1933, based in the United Kingdom. It has awarded its Fellowship title to individuals in "recognition of their outstanding contribution to film or television culture" and is considered the highest accolade presented by the Institute:[1] British actor John Hurt said the award was "the highest honour possible".[2]

The first awards were made in 1983, the same year as BFI National Archive's Silver Jubilee and the BFI's fiftieth anniversary, and as of March 2015, there are 80 Fellows.[3] Awards are not presented every year, but every award ceremony has been held in London, on occasion at the National Film Theatre as part of the BFI London Film Festival.[2] The inaugural ceremony honoured six recipients of the Fellowship: French film director Marcel Carné, British film directors David Lean, Michael Powell, Hungarian screenwriter Emeric Pressburger, Indian film-maker Satyajit Ray and American director and actor Orson Welles. The most recent Fellowship was bestowed in 2015 on Australian actress Cate Blanchett.[4]

Of the 80 Fellows, the majority (50) are from the United Kingdom, with 30 foreign recipients, mainly from the United States and France. There have been two African winners, both film directors, Malian Souleymane Cissé and Senegalese Ousmane Sembène while one recipient has come from each of Japan, India, Iran, and Canada.

Fellows

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American Orson Welles was one of the six inaugural recipients of the Fellowship in 1983.
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French actor Gérard Depardieu is one of four French awardees, receiving his Fellowship in 1989.
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Irish actress Maureen O'Hara was awarded the Fellowship in 1993.
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Martin Scorsese became a BFI Fellow in 1995.
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Helena Bonham Carter became a Fellow in 2012.
Al Pacino was a 2014 recipient of the Fellowship.
Year Recipient Nationality Ref
1983 Marcel Carné  France [5]
1983 David Lean  United Kingdom [5]
1983 Michael Powell  United Kingdom [5]
1983 Emeric Pressburger  Hungary [5]
1983 Satyajit Ray  India [5]
1983 Orson Welles  United States [5]
1984 Sidney Bernstein  United Kingdom [6]
1985 John Brabourne  United Kingdom [7]
1985 Laurence Olivier  United Kingdom [8]
1986 Jeremy Isaacs  United Kingdom [9]
1986 Deborah Kerr  United Kingdom [9]
1986 Akira Kurosawa  Japan [10]
1986 Dilys Powell  United Kingdom [9]
1987 Dirk Bogarde  United Kingdom [11]
1987 Bette Davis  United States [12]
1987 Elem Klimov  Soviet Union [12]
1988 Graham Greene  United Kingdom [13]
1988 Vanessa Redgrave  United Kingdom [13]
1988 Anthony Smith  United Kingdom [13]
1989 Peggy Ashcroft  United Kingdom [14]
1989 Gérard Depardieu  France [14]
1989 David Francis  United Kingdom [15]
1990 Derek Jarman  United Kingdom [16]
1990 Krzysztof Kieślowski  Poland [16]
1990 Jeanne Moreau  France [16]
1990 Fred Zinnemann  Austria [16]
1991 Alec Guinness  United Kingdom [17]
1991 Leslie Hardcastle  United Kingdom [17]
1992 Richard Attenborough  United Kingdom [18]
1992 Maggie Smith  United Kingdom [19]
1993 Clint Eastwood  United States [20]
1993 Denis Forman  United Kingdom [20]
1993 Maureen O'Hara  Ireland [20]
1994 Nicolas Roeg  United Kingdom [21]
1994 Jean Simmons  United Kingdom [21]
1995 Michelangelo Antonioni  Italy [22]
1995 John Mills  United Kingdom [23]
1995 Martin Scorsese  United States [24]
1995 Robert Wise  United States [25]
1996 Michael Caine  United Kingdom [26]
1996 Ken Loach  United Kingdom [26]
1997 Michael Parkinson  United Kingdom [27]
1997 Lynda La Plante  United Kingdom [27]
1997 Verity Lambert  United Kingdom [27]
1997 David Puttnam  United Kingdom [27]
1997 Sydney Samuelson  United Kingdom [28]
1997 Thelma Schoonmaker  United States [28]
1997 Alan Yentob  United Kingdom [27]
1998 Bernardo Bertolucci  Italy [29]
1998 Jeremy Thomas  United Kingdom [30]
1999 John Paul Getty, Jr.  United States [31]
2000 Elizabeth Taylor  United Kingdom [32]
2001 Robert Altman  United States [33]
2001 Lewis Gilbert  United Kingdom [34]
2002 Jack Cardiff  United Kingdom [35]
2002 Bob Weinstein  United States [36]
2002 Harvey Weinstein  United States [36]
2005 Abbas Kiarostami  Iran [37]
2005 Mike Leigh  United Kingdom [38]
2005 Ousmane Sembène  Senegal [39]
2007 Terence Davies  United Kingdom [40]
2009 Souleymane Cissé  Mali [2]
2009 John Hurt  United Kingdom [2]
2009 Ridley Scott  United Kingdom [41]
2010 Danny Boyle  United Kingdom [1]
2010 David Rose  United Kingdom [42]
2011 Isabelle Huppert  France [43]
2011 Judi Dench  United Kingdom [44]
2011 Ralph Fiennes  United Kingdom [45]
2011 David Cronenberg  Canada [45]
2012 Bryan Forbes  United Kingdom [46]
2012 Helena Bonham Carter  United Kingdom [47]
2012 Tim Burton  United States [47]
2012 Richard Lester  United Kingdom [48]
2013 Philip French  United Kingdom [49]
2013 Christopher Lee  United Kingdom [50]
2013 John Boorman  United Kingdom [51]
2014 Al Pacino  United States [52]
2014 Stephen Frears  United Kingdom [53]
2015 Mel Brooks  United States [54]
2015 Cate Blanchett  Australia [55]

References

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