London, Feb. 23 -- The star-studded BAFTA Film Awards 2026 ceremony in London also put a spotlight on Donna Langley, chair of NBCUniversal Entertainment and the first British woman to run a major Hollywood studio, as she recieved the British Academy's highest honour, the BAFTA Fellowship on Sunday.

The top executive, born and raised on the Isle of Wight in the U.K., took to the stage to receive the British Academy's highest honor, the BAFTA Fellowship, to a standing ovation before highlighting cinema's power to bring people together.

"We are ... facing moments of change and disruption today, and I hope that those of us who help tell stories for a living continue to find inspiration to make popular art that carries over into people's eve...