BAFTA
Shuhei Yoshida is getting BAFTA’s highest and most prestigious award
The BAFTA awards are giving ShuheiYoshida their most prestigious award, placing his name alongside Hitchcock, Chaplin, Spielberg, Scorsese, and more.
The BAFTAs remain committed to settling their outstanding debt with video games, which they have forgotten about for decades, and recently announced their intent to award a new BAFTA Fellowship, the most important of its awards, to Shuhei Yoshida, 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, being primarily responsible for the experiences PlayStation 3 and PS4 brought us during their respective life cycles.
The prize will be given to him on March 30, 2023, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, where there will also be the rest of the 2023 video game BAFTAs (something to keep in mind, since God of War has over twice as many nominations as Elden Ring). IT will also be the final event in the video game awards season of this past year, making way for the new wave of titles from 2023 to build up hype for the next one. Furthermore, this BAFTA Fellowship will put Yoshida in the Mount Rushmore of video games, which 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
- 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 Zinnemann
- 1979: Lew Grade of 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 Fellini
- 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 the 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 Carmack, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson
- 2017: Mel Brooks and Joanna Lumley
- 2018: Ridley Scott, Tim Schafer 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