Duncan Kenworthy to Receive BAFTA Fellowship — SkimNews
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- Duncan Kenworthy will receive the BAFTA Fellowship at a special ceremony hosted by longtime collaborator Richard Curtis; Kenworthy already holds an OBE for services to film.
- Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually were among the internationally acclaimed films produced by Kenworthy during his defining creative partnership with Curtis.
- DNA was co-founded by Kenworthy and Andrew Macdonald and counts Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, The Last King of Scotland and Civil War among its credits.
- Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock and the Emmy-winning Gulliver’s Travels extended Kenworthy’s five-decade career into television through his long association with Jim Henson and The Jim Henson Company.
- BAFTA appointed Kenworthy to its film committee in 1996; he later served as chair from 2004 to 2006 and vice president from 2009 to 2015.
- Toledo Scholarship, established by Kenworthy’s Toledo Productions, provides financial aid to talented U.K. students from underrepresented backgrounds seeking careers in the industry.
- National Film and Television School counted Kenworthy as a board governor as he also built the Toledo Scholarship initiative to broaden access to film and television careers.
Why it matters: The clearest material benefit goes to aspiring U.K. filmmakers: Kenworthy’s Toledo Scholarship provides financial aid to talented students from underrepresented backgrounds. His more than 30 years in BAFTA leadership and the Fellowship place that access initiative beside a senior career spanning more than five decades.
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