{"id":108162,"date":"2026-04-08T09:47:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/supercells-ilkka-paananen-will-receive-fellowship-at-upcoming-bafta-awards\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:47:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:47:45","slug":"supercells-ilkka-paananen-will-receive-fellowship-at-upcoming-bafta-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/supercells-ilkka-paananen-will-receive-fellowship-at-upcoming-bafta-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercell&#039;s Ilkka Paananen Will Receive Fellowship At Upcoming BAFTA Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">BAFTA has announced that Ilkka Paananen, the co-founder and CEO of Clash of Clans developer Supercell, will receive the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bafta.org\/awards\/full-list-of-bafta-fellows\/\">BAFTA Fellowship<\/a> at the upcoming BAFTA Game Awards on April 17.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is the highest honor from BAFTA, and it is bestowed upon people who have &#8220;driven innovation, creativity, and positive change in the screen arts, including games, over the course of their career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure data-align=\"center\" data-size=\"large\" data-img-src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/original\/1179\/11799911\/4678924-supercell.jpg\" data-ref-id=\"1300-4678924\" data-ratio=\"0.60584677419355\" data-width=\"992\" data-embed-type=\"image\" style=\"width: 992px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/original\/1179\/11799911\/4678924-supercell.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"No Caption Provided\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/original\/1179\/11799911\/4678924-supercell.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/original\/1179\/11799911\/4678924-supercell.jpg 992w, https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/scale_medium\/1179\/11799911\/4678924-supercell.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" data-width=\"992\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Paananen is getting the Fellowship for his work at Supercell, which he co-founded in 2010. The studio created Clash of Clans, which is one of the most popular mobile games of all time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/supercells-ilkka-paananen-will-receive-fellowship-at-upcoming-bafta-awards\/1100-6539264\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\/\">Continue Reading at GameSpot<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/supercells-ilkka-paananen-will-receive-fellowship-at-upcoming-bafta-awards\/1100-6539264\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAFTA has announced that Ilkka Paananen, the co-founder and CEO of Clash of Clans developer Supercell, will receive the BAFTA Fellowship at the upcoming BAFTA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}