Previous recipients of the BFI Fellowship include Lord Attenborough, SirMichaelCaine, Clint Eastwood, Bernardo Bertolucci, Martin Scorsese and Dame Maggie Smith.
The Caine Prize was started by the late businessman SirMichaelCaine who ran the Booker prize for many years, and the prize defines an "African writer" as one born on the continent who addresses African issues.