by The BAFTAs remain committed to settling their outstanding debt with video games, of which they 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 Schaffer
- 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 and Laurence Olivier
- 1977: Denis Forman
- 1978: Fred Zinneman
- 1979: Lew Grade and Huw Wheldon
- 1980: David Attenborough and John Huston
- 1981: Abel Gance, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
- 1982: Andrzej Wajda
- 1983: Richard Attenborough
- 1984: Hugh Greene and Sam Spiegel
- 1985: Jeremy Isaacs
- 1986: Steven Spielberg
- 1987: Federico Felini
- 1988: Ingmar Bergman
- 1989: Alec Guinness
- 1990: Paul Fox
- 1991: Louis Malle
- 1992: John Gielgud and David Plowright
- 1993: Sydney Samuelson and 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 and David Rose
- 1998: Sean Connery and Bill Cotton
- 1999: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise and Elizabeth Taylor
- 2000: Michael Caine, Stanley Kubrick and Peter Bazalgette
- 2001: Albert Finney, John Thaw and Judi Dench
- 2002: Warren Beatty, Merchant Ivory Productions, Andrew Davies and John Mills
- 2003: Saul Zaentz and David Jason
- 2004: John Boorman and Roger Graef
- 2005: John Barry and David Frost
- 2006: David Puttnam and Ken Loach
- 2007: Anne V. Coates, Richard Curtis and Will Wright
- 2008: Anthony Hopkins and Bruce Forsyth
- 2009: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Terry Gilliam and Nolan Bushnell
- 2010: Vanessa Redgrave, Shigeru Miyamoto and Melvyn Bragg
- 2011: Christopher Lee, Peter Molyneux and Trevor McDonald
- 2012: Martin Scorsese
- 2013: Alan Parker, Gabe Newell and Michael Palin
- 2014: Helen Mirren, Rockstar Games and Julie Walters
- 2015: Mike Leigh, David Braben and Jon Snow
- 2016: Sidney Poitier, john carmackRay Galton and Alan Simpson
- 2017: Mel Brooks and Joanna Lumley
- 2018: Ridley Scott, Tim Schaffer and Kate Adie
- 2019: Thelma Schoonmaker and Joan Bakewell
- 2020: Kathleen Kennedy and Hideo Kojima
- 2021: Siobhan Reddy and Ang Lee
- 2022: Billy Connolly
- 2023: Sandy Powell and Shuhei Yoshida
