Veteran actress Helen Mirren is all set to be awarded the British Academy fellowship at next month's Bafta Film Awards.
The annual prize, given to noted filmmaker Alan Parker last year, is the highest honour that the Academy can bestow, reported BBC online.
Mirren, 68, who won a best actress Oscar in 2007 for 'The Queen', said the honour was "overwhelming".
"This is the greatest professional honour I can imagine, certainly one I never dreamt of as a schoolgirl in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. To join that list of legendary names is overwhelming," she said.
Previous winners of the prize have included Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick.
"Helen Mirren receives the fellowship as one of the most outstanding actresses of her generation. Helen's incredibly successful career is testament to the determination, dedication and skill she brings to each of her roles," John Willis, Bafta Chairman said.
An accomplished film, television and stage actress, Mirren's breakthrough film role came in John Mackenzie's British gangster flick 'The Long Good Friday'.
