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Outstanding Achievement Award
Every year at the annual conference we present an award to a senior figure who has made a significant contribution to the discipline. Awards have been presented to both academics and industry practitioners.
Previous Recipients of BAFTSS's Outstanding Achievement Award
2021: Amma Asante (director/writer): view interview between Asante and Shelly Cobb, recorded as part of the BAFTSS conference, here.
2020: Mark Cousins (filmmaker and critic): see here for his acceptance message
2019: Pam Cook (Southampton)
2018: Tony Garnett (producer)
2018: Ken Loach (filmmaker)
2018: Susan Hayward (Exeter – Emeritus)
2017: Steve Neale (Exeter - Emeritus)
2016: Sue Harper (Portsmouth – Emeritus Professor) Read Sue Harper's
keynote here.
2015: John Akomfrah (filmmaker)
2014: Christine Geraghty (Bedfordshire)
2013: Richard Dyer (Kings College London)
2012: Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck)
Pam Cook's acceptance message, 2019
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