An actor regarded as among the most quintessentially British of Brits has been awarded the British Film Institute's highest honor. Hugh Grant, who broke out in Four Weddings and a Funeral and went on to become the U.K. rom-com king with lead roles in Notting Hill and Love, Actually, was given the BFI Fellowship at a ceremony held on Tuesday. The award also marked the final event presided over by Greg Dyke as chairman of the BFI. He said, "Hugh?s acting talents are prodigious and his contribution to cinema enormous. He is a British icon and has been making literally billions of people all over the world laugh, cry ? and fall in love with him, of course ? for over 30 years." Grant is next due to appear alongside Meryl Streep in Stephen Frears' Florence Foster Jenkins, due for release in the U.K. in May.