The AFI Life Achievement Award was established by the Board of Directors of the American Film Institute on February 26, 1973 to honor a single individual for his or her lifetime contribution to enriching American culture through motion pictures and television. The Recipient is selected and honored at a ceremony annually, with the award presented by a master of ceremonies and recently, the prior year's recipient, who usually gives a brief synopsis of the awarded individual and career background including highlights and achievements. The Trustees initially specified that the recipient must be one who fundamentally advanced the art of film and whose achievements had been acknowledged by the general public as well as by film scholars and critics and the individual's peers. The Trustees also specified that the work of the recipient must have withstood the test of time.
All Life Achievement Award ceremonies have been televised since 1973. Agreeing to appear at the televised ceremony apparently is part of the AFI's criteria for selecting the award. The televised ceremony generates income for the AFI, which is no longer funded by the US government. Due to the exigencies of television, the popularity of the award recipient in terms of potential ratings likely is a factor in selecting the Life Achievement Award honoree, which could explain why it never has been awarded to such major American directors as Robert Altman and George Cukor or such actresses as Joanne Woodward, all of whom were Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute honorees, or such distinguished actors as Robert Redford, Gene Hackman and Doris Day, all of whom were recipients of The Golden Globes Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Cecil B. DeMille Award for life achievement. Of the first 43 honorees, eight have been women: Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Barbara Stanwyck, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbra Streisand, Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine and Jane Fonda!
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Ray Romano announces today's AFI Movie Club selection: THE GODFATHER. The film is secure in the pantheon of the greatest American films of all time – appearing across five of the American Film Institute's lists. In addition, the iconic – and arguably definitive – gangster film features indelib...
Steve Buscemi announces today's AFI Movie Club selection: JACKIE BROWN. The film is directed by AFI Honorary Degree recipient Quentin Tarantino, and the star-studded cast includes AFI Life Achievement Award recipient Robert De Niro....
Nathan Lane announces todaya??s AFI Movie Club selection: THE ODD COUPLE....
AFI Alum Bill Duke announces today's AFI Movie Club selection: MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON. ...
Alfre Woodard has announced today's AFI Movie Club selection: MCCABE & MRS. MILLER. AFI Life Achievement Award recipient Warren Beatty teamed up with Julie Christie and director Robert Altman to bring MCCABE & MRS. MILLER to the silver screen, which AFI named as one of the greatest westerns in film...
BroadwayWorld has learned that online rumors about a Broadway revival of Our Town are true. Producer Scott Rudin has plans to bring Thornton Wilder's play back to Broadway for the first time since 2002. Rudin has tapped Tony winner Bartlett Sher (To Kill a Mockingbird) to direct the play, which will...
Kerry Washington announces today's AFI Movie Club selection: THE COLOR PURPLE....
Demi Moore announces today's AFI Movie Club selection: WHAT A WAY TO GO!...
Eddie Redmayne announces today's AFI Movie Club selection: REDS....
Issa Rae announces today's AFI Movie Club selection: DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS....
Jessica Biel announces today's AFI Movie Club selection: EASY RIDER....
Naomi Watts announced today's AFI Movie Club selection: TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. AFI Life Achievement Award recipients Shirley MacLaine (2012) and Jack Nicholson (1994) came together to help bring you to tears in TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. The film's director, James L. Brooks, is the Artistic Director of th...
Jay Roach announces today's AFI Movie Club selection: BEING THERE....
Neil Patrick Harris announces today's AFI Movie Club selection: STAR WARS: EPISODE IV a?" A NEW HOPE....
Hugh Grant announces today's AFI Movie Club selection: ROMAN HOLIDAY....
Hanelle Culpepper announces today's AFI Movie Club selection: THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION....
Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson from Unspooled announce today's AFI Movie Club selection: YANKEE DOODLE DANDY....
Charlie Day and Mary Elizabeth Ellis announce today's AFI Movie Club selection: NINE TO FIVE. The film appears on AFI's 100 YEARS...100 LAUGHS list, and Dolly Parton's anthem “9 to 5” is on AFI's list of greatest songs! And Jane Fonda, one of the stars of the film, was the recipient of the AFI ...
Cynthia Erivo announces today's AFI Movie Club selection: THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA....
Halle Berry announces today's AFI Movie Club selection: E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL....
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Julie Andrews is set to become the tenth woman to receive the 48th AFI Life Achievement Award. The award was going to be presented to Andrews on April 25, 2020 at a gala in Los Angeles. However, according to Page Six, the gala has been postponed as a response t...
Today, the American Film Institute (AFI) celebrated the 2019 AFI AWARDS honorees at an invite-only luncheon in Beverly Hills. Unique in its celebration of the film and television arts' collaborative nature, AFI AWARDS – now in its 20th year – is the only national program that honors creative tea...
Academy Award winning actress and social activist Jane Fonda discusses her career at Mayo Performing Arts Center on Sunday, December 8 at 7 pm. Tickets are $49-$79; limited $250 tickets include a photo op....
Spotlight Cinema Networks and American Film Institute (AFI), announce today an exclusive yearlong partnership to showcase rare and never-before-seen footage from the AFI Archive within Spotlight's preshow entertainment to luxury exhibitors and iconic independent film theaters nationwide in Octobe...
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