The British Film Institute announced that Turner Prize-winning video artist and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen has won this year's BFI Fellowship. McQueen will now be an honorary BFI member as part of the fellowship, which is awarded annually to a notable person working in the film industry. McQueen will become the youngest director to receive the BFI fellowship when it is presented to him at the awards ceremony of the London film festival on 15 October, six days after his 47th birthday. McQueen, who won the Turner prize in 1999, has quickly established himself as one of the UK's most respected film-makers responsible for Hunger (2008), Shame (2011) and the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave (2013). In 2014, the film earned the Oscar for Best Picture. McQueen, who sometimes shows films and videos in an art-world context, also recently had a solo show at New York's Whitney Museum. He joins a roll call of BFI fellows that includes Vanessa Redgrave, Elizabeth Taylor and Alec Guinness as well as directors Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and Danny Boyle.