Peter Morgan, the screenwriter whose credits include The Queen and The Crown, will be awarded the British Film Institute’s highest honour when he is given the BFI fellowship.
Morgan, who also wrote Frost/Nixon, The Last King of Scotland and Rush, will be honoured at the BFI’s annual cchairman’s dinner on 21 February.
He said he could not be more “surprised, thrilled or proud” to receive the honour, adding he would “look forward to being suitably teased and abused on the night”.
“He is rightly one of our most feted and accomplished screenwriters, with a career spanning almost 30 years and delighting generations of audiences with his work.