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Media Molecule boss Siobhan Reddy will get the prestigious BAFTA Fellowship award this year.

Announcing the award at the present time, BAFTA acknowledged it had honoured Reddy “in recognition of her pioneering work on advocacy for diversity, inclusion and ingenious and collaborative working tradition”.

Reddy joined Media Molecule quickly after its founding in 2006, and has served as its studio director since 2009, following the a hit open of LittleBigPlanet on PlayStation 3. The next years noticed rather about a LittleBigPlanet sequels and whisk-offs, plus Vita and PS4 game Tearaway, prior to the lengthy-awaited Desires arrived in 2020.

The Fellowship will most likely be officially given staunch throughout the BAFTA Video games Awards on Thursday 25th March 2021, that would furthermore very well be hosted by Elle Osili-Wooden and streamed online.

“I’m so extremely honoured and moved to receive the BAFTA Fellowship Award,” Reddy acknowledged. “I basically were privileged for the length of my lifestyles and career with impossible strengthen and encouragement. I sincerely hope that my memoir, grunt and strengthen would perchance presumably furthermore very well be precious to others within the games enterprise.

“There may perchance be aloof so noteworthy to cease, the Fellowship affords additional motivation for me, and is real encouragement for all of us to care noteworthy extra about inclusivity, diversity and constructing a work tradition that celebrates creativity.”

Reddy may perchance perchance be the 11th recipient of a BAFTA Fellowship for video games. The first prize went to Maxis co-founder Will Wright in 2007, with subsequent awards every year or so for Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto and susceptible Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux.

Valve chief Gabe Newell turned into subsequent, followed by a collective award for Sizable Theft Auto maker Rockstar Video games, then additional prizes for Frontier brain David Braben, identification Application co-founder John Carmack, Double Gorgeous’s Tim Schafer, and Steel Equipment Stable creator Hideo Kojima.