Martin Scorsese received the BAFTA Fellowship award in 2012.
The BAFTA Fellowship is the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ highest honour. It recognizes outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image and is generally presented for a lifetime of influential work rather than for one particular film.
Scorsese joined a distinguished list of recipients that includes Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Laurence Olivier, Steven Spielberg, Anthony Hopkins and Woody Allen. His Fellowship recognized a career spanning fiction filmmaking, documentary work, film preservation and advocacy for cinema history.
The year can be confused with nearby Fellowship recipients: Christopher Lee and other honorees were recognized in 2011, while Alan Parker and Michael Palin appear among the 2013 recipients. Scorsese’s 2012 Fellowship was separate from his later awards and nominations for individual films.