British Film Institute

…as chairman of both the British Film Institute (2008–16) and the Football Association (2013–16), the governing body of English football (soccer). In 2018 he became chairman of the London Film School. His autobiography, Greg Dyke: Inside Story (2004), chronicles his career at the BBC.

…every 10 years by the British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound magazine. The poll was inspired by one taken by Belgium’s World Festival of Films and Fine Arts in 1952. In that poll more than 100 filmmakers, including Orson Welles, Robert Bresson, David Lean, and Cecil B. DeMille (who voted…