Duncan Kenworthy, the British producer behind “Four Weddings and a Funeral”, “Notting Hill” and “Love Actually”, has been named the recipient of BAFTA's highest honour, the BAFTA Fellowship. He will be presented with the award at a special ceremony hosted by his longtime creative partner Richard Curtis, recognising a career spanning more than five decades that has helped shape modern British cinema and bring British storytelling to worldwide audiences.

Kenworthy, who already holds an OBE for services to film, co-founded the production company DNA with Andrew Macdonald, whose credits include “Trainspotting”, “28 Days Later” and “Civil War”, and also has a long television history through his work with Jim Henson on titles such as “Sesame Street”, “Fraggle Rock” and the Emmy-winning “Gulliver's Travels”. He has been closely involved with BAFTA for over 30 years, including as film committee chair from 2004 to 2006 and vice president from 2009 to 2015, and set up the Toledo Scholarship to support underrepresented UK students entering the film industry. Previous BAFTA Fellows include Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Judi Dench and Sir Ridley Scott.