Brooks will be given the Bafta fellowship at the EE British Academy film awards on 12 February.
Mel Brooks is to be the recipient of this year’s Bafta fellowship, it has been announced.
Awarded in recognition of “an outstanding and exceptional contribution” to film, the fellowship is in effect Bafta’s lifetime achievement award; Brooks follows previous awardees such as Sidney Poitier, Mike Leigh and Helen Mirren.
In 2015, he received a BFI fellowship, again as a lifetime achievement award.