Sir David Attenborough doesn't spend much time in front of the camera, but you almost certainly know his work from television.
He's the soothing voice of such Netflix standards as Planet Earth, Blue Planet, and Our Planet, but he's been around much, much longer than the streaming giant has, and he's being honored for his lifetime of work in nature documentaries, Metro reported.
He's received no shortage of honors for his work over the years, including a knighthood, having more than 10 plants and animal species named after him, and he's the only person ever to be awarded BAFTAs for work done in black and white, color, HD, and 3D.
Sir David's latest honor is Britain's TV Choice lifetime achievement award.
"Still working, learning and making programmes Sir David Attenborough isn't just a British hero, he's a global icon," TV Choice said in its announcement of the award.
Sir David replied, saying "What I do isn't always entertaining, and sometimes people hear things they don't like. But this is an honor and a great pleasure."
His latest series, Our Planet, debuted on Netflix in April, and over the summer he put in appearances at Glastonbury and before a British parliamentary committee, where he delivered a scathing rebuke to leaders for inaction on climate change and warned of "great social unrest" over the next 20 years.
Comparing climate change to slavery, he said "There was a time in the 19th century when it was perfectly acceptable for civilized human beings to think that it was morally acceptable to actually own another human being for a slave.
"And somehow or other, in the space of 20 or 30 years, the public perception of that totally transformed."
Here's hoping he has many more years of filmmaking ahead of him!
