Claim: Judi Dench is a person who acts.

The BAFTA Fellowship , or the Academy Fellowship , is a lifetime achievement award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts -LRB- BAFTA -RRB- 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 -LRB- since 2007 -RRB- 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 .   The inaugural recipient of the award was filmmaker and producer Alfred Hitchcock . The award has been made posthumously to comedy pair Morecambe and Wise in 1999 , and to Stanley Kubrick , who died that same year and was made a fellow in 2000 . The most recent recipient was British actress Joanna Lumley .