Mr Suschitzky, who also worked on the popular children’s TV series Worzel Gummidge, was honoured for his contribution to photography and cinematography.
Born in Vienna, Mr Suschitzky lost relatives in Auschwitz during the holocaust and escaped fascism in Austria by moving first to Holland and then to England to join his sister Edith who later ran an antiques shop in The Lanes, Brighton.
He became a specialist cameraman during and after the war and has worked on 200 films since the 1930s including Get Carter and Ulysses, and on the Oscar-winning short film The Bespoke Overcoat.
Mr Suschitzky told graduates at the Dome awards ceremony: “I have been a lucky man.”