The American Film Institute announced on Wednesday it has received a $3 million gift from AFI Trustee Emeritus Lawrence Herbert to establish the Lawrence Herbert Alumni Center on the AFI Campus in Los Angeles. The gift will also establish a digital portal, called AFI Backlot, to magnify the center's reach to AFI…
The American Film Institute is looking somewhere over the rainbow to put a little hope in our new daily routines in this age of the coronavirus.
On Tuesday, AFI unveiled the launch of AFI Movie Club, designed to be “a daily virtual gathering to leverage our collective love of film on behalf of optimism in this time of…
Netflix’s Martin Scorsese mob drama The Irishman, which already has picked up Best Picture wins from critics groups, is one of the 10 films named to the American Film Institute’s AFI Motion Pictures of the Year list.
The diverse group for 2019 includes ranges from indies like Lulu Wang’s A24 pic The Farewell to a…
HBO’s Chernobyl and Succession and FX’s Fosse/Verdon are among the American Film Institure’s 10 outstanding TV programs of the year, which also includes some old-guard shows taking their final bows (Game of Thrones, Veep) and an embrace of diversity evident in others (Pose, Watchmen, When They See Us).
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The American Film Institute’s board of trustees said Friday that Julie Andrews will receive the 48th AFI Life Achievement Award next year. The award will be presented April 25, 2020 at a gala in Los Angeles.
Andrews, the star of screen and stage, won the Best Actress Oscar for Mary Poppins in her feature film debut…
Perhaps it is telling us something about the history of the film industry that Denzel Washington, last night’s highly deserving honoree for the 47th AFI Life Achievement Award, is only the third African American to ever receive it, and before Morgan Freeman was honored in 2011, Sidney Poitier in 1992 was the…
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has been elected chair of the American Film Institute Board of Trustees. Kennedy will lead the AFI Trustees to set the Institute's priorities and guide its national education programs. Kennedy succeeds Sir Howard Stringer, who served as chair of the AFI Board of Trustees since…
EXCLUSIVE: The American Film Institute (AFI) and the Russo Brothers’ AGBO Films have teamed for the AGBO/AFI Conservatory Development Grant, and have named Angela Chen (AFI Class of 2018) as this year’s recipient.
This new program awards $25K to a recent AFI Conservatory graduate to develop at least one project, with…
The American Film Institute said that film, TV and music video artist Melina Matsoukas will be this year’s recipient of the Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal, which honors creative talents of AFI Conservatory alumni who embody the qualities of the filmmaker for which it is named after.
The medal, which recognizes…
The American Film Institute has received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (to for an unprecedented study of gender parity in the history of American film.
Named for director Lloyd Bacon’s lost 1928 film, the Women They Talk About initiative will explore how gender parity nearly was…
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One day off for New Year’s and it was back into the swing of the season – BIG TIME. Kicking off a week’s end with non-stop awards-related events, you can safely use the word “whirlwind” to describe it all, as the annual Palm Springs Film Awards Gala…
The AFI has released its annual list of 10 top TV programs of the year, with FX scoring four mentions, HBO two and NBC’s This Is Us representing broadcast solo. Of the Big 3 streamers, only Hulu was shut out. Check out the list below.
The top 10 is heavy with rookie series including Barry, Pose, the Emmy-winning The Ma…
