The BAFTAs remain committed to settling their outstanding debt with video games, of those who have been forgotten for decades, and intend to award a new BAFTA Fellowship, the most important of its awards, to Shuhei Yoshida, the former president of Sony Interactive Entertainment and current head of PlayStation Indies. He joined Sony in 1993 and served as the company’s president from 2008 to 2019, largely responsible for the experiences PlayStation 3 and PS4 brought us during their respective life cycles.
The prize will be given to you on March 30, 2023 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, where there will also be the rest of the 2023 video game BAFTAs (Where be careful because God of War adds twice as many nominations as Elden Ring). It will be the event that puts the point and end to the videojueguil awards season. Furthermore, this BAFTA Fellowship will put Yoshida in the Mount Rushmore of video gameswhich has not stopped growing since 2007 and already includes the following names:
All BAFTA Fellowships for Video Games
- 2007: Will Wright
- 2009: Nolan Bushnell
- 2010: Shigeru Miyamoto
- 2011: Peter Molyneux
- 2013: Gabe Newell
- 2014: Rockstar Games
- 2015: David Braben
- 2016: John Carmack
- 2018: Tim Schafer
- 2020: Hideo Kojima
- 2021: Siobhan Reddy
- 2023: Shuhei Yoshida
List of all BAFTA Fellowship awards
(In bold those related to video games).
- 1971: Alfred Hitchcock
- 1972: Freddie Young
- 1973: Grace Wyndham Goldie
- 1974: David Lean
- 1975: Jacques Cousteau
- 1976: Charlie Chaplin y Laurence Olivier
- 1977: Denis Forman
- 1978: Fred Zinnemann
- 1979: Lew Grade y Huw Wheldon
- 1980: David Attenborough y John Huston
- 1981: Abel Gance, Michael Powell y Emeric Pressburger
- 1982: Andrzej Wajda
- 1983: Richard Attenborough
- 1984: Hugh Greene y Sam Spiegel
- 1985: Jeremy Isaacs
- 1986: Steven Spielberg
- 1987: Federico Fellini
- 1988: Ingmar Bergman
- 1989: Alec Guinness
- 1990: Paul Fox
- 1991: Louis Malle
- 1992: John Gielgud y David Plowright
- 1993: Sydney Samuelson y Colin Young
- 1994: Michael Grade
- 1995: Billy Wilder
- 1996: Jeanne Moreau, Ronald Neame, John Schlesinger and Maggie Smith
- 1997: Woody Allen, Steven Bochco, Julie Christie, Oswald Morris, Harold Pinter y David Rose
- 1998: Sean Connery y Bill Cotton
- 1999: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise y Elizabeth Taylor
- 2000: Michael Caine, Stanley Kubrick y Peter Bazalgette
- 2001: Albert Finney, John Thaw y Judi Dench
- 2002: Warren Beatty, Merchant Ivory Productions, Andrew Davies y John Mills
- 2003: Saul Zaentz y David Jason
- 2004: John Boorman and Roger Graef
- 2005: John Barry y David Frost
- 2006: David Puttnam y Ken Loach
- 2007: Anne V. Coates, Richard Curtis y Will Wright
- 2008: Anthony Hopkins y Bruce Forsyth
- 2009: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Terry Gilliam y Nolan Bushnell
- 2010: Vanessa Redgrave, Shigeru Miyamoto y Melvyn Bragg
- 2011: Christopher Lee, Peter Molyneux y Trevor McDonald
- 2012: Martin Scorsese
- 2013: Alan Parker, Gabe Newell y Michael Palin
- 2014: Helen Mirren, Rockstar Games y Julie Walters
- 2015: Mike Leigh, David Braben y Jon Snow
- 2016: Sidney Poitier, John CarmackRay Galton y Alan Simpson
- 2017: Mel Brooks y Joanna Lumley
- 2018: Ridley Scott, Tim Schafer and Kate Adie
- 2019: Thelma Schoonmaker y Joan Bakewell
- 2020: Kathleen Kennedy e Hideo Kojima
- 2021: Siobhan Reddy y Ang Lee
- 2022: Billy Connolly
- 2023: Sandy Powell y Shuhei Yoshida
