BFI Fellows
A British Film Institute Fellowship is awarded to individuals in recognition of their outstanding contribution to film or television culture. Initiated in 1983, the BFI’s Silver Jubilee year, BFI Fellowships have been given to film and programme-makers from around the world.
Here is the full roll call:
- Robert Altman
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Dame Peggy Ashcroft
- Lord Attenborough CBE
- Lord Bernstein
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Sir Dirk Bogarde
- Helena Bonham Carter
- John Boorman
- Danny Boyle
- Lord Brabourne
- Tim Burton
- Sir Michael Caine
- Jack Cardiff
- Marcel Carné
- Souleymane Cissé
- David Cronenberg
- Terence Davies
- Bette Davis
- Gérard Depardieu
- Dame Judi Dench
- Clint Eastwood
- Ralph Fiennes
- Bryan Forbes CBE
- Sir Denis Forman
- David Francis OBE
- Sir J Paul Getty
- Lewis Gilbert
- Graham Greene
- Sir Alec Guinness
- Leslie Hardcastle OBE
- Isabelle Huppert
- John Hurt
- Sir Jeremy Isaacs
- Derek Jarman
- Deborah Kerr CBE
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Elem Klimov
- Akira Kurosawa
- Verity Lambert
- Lynda La Plante
- Sir David Lean
- Mike Leigh
- Richard Lester
- Ken Loach
- Sir John Mills
- Jeanne Moreau
- Maureen O’Hara
- Lord Olivier
- Michael Parkinson CBE
- Dilys Powell CBE
- Michael Powell
- Emeric Pressburger
- Lord Puttnam CBE
- Satyajit Ray
- Vanessa Redgrave CBE
- Nicolas Roeg CBE
- David Rose
- Sir Sydney Samuelson CBE
- Thelma Schoonmaker Powell
- Martin Scorsese
- Ridley Scott
- Ousmane Sembene
- Jean Simmons
- Anthony Smith CBE
- Dame Maggie Smith
- Dame Elizabeth Taylor
- Jeremy Thomas CBE
- Bob Weinstein
- Harvey Weinstein
- Orson Welles
- Robert Wise
- Alan Yentob
- Fred Zinnemann