The 24th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1971, honoured the best films of 1970.
The awards were held at the Royal Albert Hall, London and held on 4 March 1971.
 For the first time, the Society bestowed a Fellowship on someone who had left a permanent influence on the world of the big or small screen.
 The very first BAFTA Fellowship Award was bestowed on Alfred Hitchcock Fellowship Award at this award event from HRH The Princess Anne.
Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940) is an English actress.
 An icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, she has won the Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards, and in 1997 she received the BAFTA Fellowship.
Dame Julia Mary Walters, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 22 February 1950) is an English actress and writer, best known as Julie Walters.
 She has won two BAFTA Film Awards, four BAFTA TV Awards and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2014.
The 65th British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were held on 12 February 2012 at the Royal Opera House in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2011.
 The nominations were announced on 17 January 2012 by actor Daniel Radcliffe and actress Holliday Grainger.
 Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades are handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 2011.
 Stephen Fry, who hosted from 2001 to 2006, returned to host the ceremony. "
The Artist" won seven awards out of its twelve nominations, including Best Film, Best Director for Michel Hazanavicius, and Best Actor for Jean Dujardin.
 Meryl Streep won Best Actress for "The Iron Lady".
 Christopher Plummer won Best Supporting Actor for "Beginners" and Octavia Spencer won Best Supporting Actress for "The Help". "
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", directed by Tomas Alfredson, was voted Outstanding British Film of 2011.
 Director Martin Scorsese was given the BAFTA Fellowship and Sir John Hurt garnered the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award.
The BAFTA Fellowship, or the Academy Fellowship, is a lifetime achievement award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) since 1971 "in recognition of outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image", and is the highest honour the Academy can bestow.
 Fellowship recipients have been mainly film directors, but some have also been awarded to actors, film and television producers, cinematographers, film editors, screenwriters and (since 2007) to contributors to the video game industry.
 People from the United Kingdom dominate the list, but it includes over a dozen U.S. citizens and several from other countries in Europe, though none of the latter have been recognized since 1996.
 Shigeru Miyamoto, in 2010, became the first citizen of an Asian country to receive the award.
Peter Honess (born 1946) is a British film editor with more than thirty film credits dating from 1973.
 Honess received the 1997 BAFTA Award for Best Editing for his work on "L.A. Confidential".
Jeanne Moreau (] ; 23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director.
 She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for "Seven Days... Seven Nights" (1960), the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for "Viva Maria!
" (1965), and the César Award for Best Actress for "The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea" (1992).
 She was also the recipient of several lifetime awards, including a BAFTA Fellowship in 1996.
The Go-Between is a 1971 British romantic drama film, directed by Joseph Losey.
 Its screenplay, by Harold Pinter, is an adaptation of the 1953 novel "The Go-Between" by L. P. Hartley.
 The film stars Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave and Dominic Guard.
 It won the Palme d'Or at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.
Anne Voase Coates (born 12 December 1925) is a British film editor with a more than 60-year-long career.
 She is perhaps best known as the editor of David Lean's epic film "Lawrence of Arabia" in 1962.
 Coates has been nominated five times for the Academy Award for Film Editing for the films "Lawrence of Arabia", "Becket" (1963), "The Elephant Man" (1980), "In the Line of Fire" (1993) and "Out of Sight" (1998).
 In an industry where women accounted for only 16 percent of all editors working on the top 250 films of 2004, and 80 percent of the films had absolutely no females on their editing teams at all, Coates continues to thrive as a top film editor.
 She was awarded BAFTA's highest honour, a BAFTA Fellowship, in February 2007 and was given an Academy Honorary Award, which are popularly known as a Lifetime Achievement Oscar, in November 2016 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Des majorettes dans l'espace ("Majorettes in Space") is a French short film written and directed by David Fourier and released in 1996.
 It won the 1997 BAFTA Award for Best Short Film and the 1998 César Award for Best Short Film.

Question: Who wrote the 1971 drama which stars the winner of the 1997 BAFTA Fellowship?
Answer: Harold Pinter