Mel Brooks to receive BAFTA fellowship honour

Legendary actor-director Mel Brooks will be bestowed with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Fellowship this year.
The 90-year-old filmmaker will receive the award from Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, who serves as president of BAFTA, at the British Academy Film Awards, which are to take place at London's Royal Albert Hall on Sunday, reported Variety.
"I am not overwhelmed, but I am definitely whelmed by this singular honour.
"To be included among such iconic talents is absolutely humbling. In choosing me for the 2017 Fellowship I think that BAFTA has made a strangely surprising yet ultimately wise decision," said Brooks.

The helmer was nominated for a BAFTA's best screenplay award in 1974 for "Blazing Saddles" but eventually lost out to Robert Towne for "Chinatown" and "The Last Detail".
Brooks is one of the only 12 people in history to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award.