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Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman will have to wait a little longer to receive her Life Achievement Award tribute from AFI, as the ceremony planned for June 10 has been postponed indefinitely due to the ongoing writers strike. Related Story Jennifer Coolidge Acknowledges WGA Strike In 20…

EXCLUSIVE: Alfred Hitchcock won the AFI’s Life Achievement Award in 1979, but now there is another Hitchcock moving up in the organization. The American Film Institute on Wednesday named Todd Hitchcock to oversee the national programming team tasked…

What do you want from the movies this year? Cheaper tickets? Smarter superheroes? A love story and five watchable Oscar films? Personally, I would settle for one great line. You know, the kind that immediately transcends whatever picture gave it birth. It is echoed, referenced, repeated…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. AFI president and CEO Bob Gazzale spoke a real truth about the money-making Hollywood awards machine as he opened the proceedings for Friday’s annual AFI Awards honoring the year’s…

Siân Heder, who directed and won an Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Best Picture winner CODA, will receive the American Film Institute’s 2022 Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal, AFI said today. She will receive the honor June 9 during the AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to Julie Andrews, which will air June 16…

The 2021 AFI Awards top 10 list is out, and it’s top heavy with films from big-name directors. Steven Spielberg, Guillermo del Toro, Denis Villeneuve, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jane Campion, Joel Coen and Adam McKay all have movies that made the cut. Another boldface name, Lin-Manuel Miranda, also showed up on the list…

The American Film Institute said today that its top 10 lists of 2021 AFI Awards winners in film and television will be revealed on December 8, with an honorees-only event set for January 7 in Los Angeles. "AFI Awards is honored to celebrate a year of extraordinary storytelling that has inspired us to see the horizon…

AFI Docs, the annual nonfiction film festival in the D.C. region, returns on Tuesday as a hybrid of in-person events and virtual screenings, a format mandated by ongoing safety concerns over Covid-19. While the ability to host at least some screenings at the AFI Silver Theater parallels the reopening of movie venues…

On Saturday, November 8, Joe Biden was announced as President-elect of the United States and Kamala Harris was announced as Vice President-elect, making history as the first Black, South Asian and female to take the position of VP. The American Film Institute commemorated the occasion by posting a video on their…

The American Film Institute said Friday that it has established the Thomas P. Pollock Endowed Scholarship Fund in memory of Tom Pollock, the famed Hollywood attorney, Universal Pictures chairman and producer who died last month at age 77. The scholarship, which is being supported by a who’s who of Hollywood, will be…

Winners were announced Saturday for the 40th College Television Awards, which recognize excellence in student-produced programs from colleges and universities nationwide. The Television Academy Foundation’s ceremony took place as a global livestream for the first time because of the coronavirus pandemic. Top honors…

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…