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
- Lord Brabourne
- Sir Michael Caine
- Jack Cardiff
- Marcel Carné
- Terence Davies
- Bette Davis
- Gérard Depardieu
- Clint Eastwood
- Sir Denis Forman
- David Francis OBE
- Sir J Paul Getty
- Lewis Gilbert
- Graham Greene
- Sir Alec Guinness
- Leslie Hardcastle OBE
- 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
- 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
- Sir Sydney Samuelson CBE
- Thelma Schoonmaker Powell
- Martin Scorsese
- Ousmane Sembene
- Jean Simmons
- Anthony Smith CBE
- Dame Maggie Smith
- Dame Elizabeth Taylor
- Jeremy Thomas
- Bob Weinstein
- Harvey Weinstein
- Orson Welles
- Robert Wise
- Alan Yentob
- Fred Zinnemann
New bfi Fellowships will be awarded in the future.