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AFI Fest 2013 Sets Dates: Nov. 7-14

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday March 5, 2013 @ 2:22pm PSTTags: AFI Fest 2013, American Film Institute

The American Film Institute announced today that AFI Fest 2013 Presented by Audi is set for November 7-14 at TCL Chinese Theatre (formerly Grauman’s Chinese), the Chinese 6 Theatres at the Hollywood & Highland Center, the Egyptian Theatre of the American Cinematheque and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Submissions are now open for narrative, documentary, experimental, animated and short films, with the shorts deadline August 2 and the feature deadline August 16. This past year, the festival featured the world premieres of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Hitchcock from Sacha Gervasi, Ang Lee’s Life Of Pi, and the secret screening of Skyfall from Sam Mendes.

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AFI Awards: Hollywood Power Players Turn Out For A Moment Of Sanity During Oscar Season Madness

By PETE HAMMOND | Saturday January 12, 2013 @ 10:59am PSTTags: AFI, AFI Awards, American Film Institute, Amy Pascal, Ben Affleck, Daniel Day-Lewis, Silver Linings Playbook, Sir Howard Stringer, Steven Spielberg
Pete Hammond

Between the roller-coaster ride of Thursday’s 85th Academy Award Nominations and Critics Choice Awards and this weekend’s Golden Globes mania, Friday’s annual AFI Awards Luncheon was not only a breath of fresh air in this busy season. … Read More »

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AFI Fest 2012 Reveals ‘Young Americans’ And ‘New Auteurs’ Titles

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday October 3, 2012 @ 12:02pm PDTTags: AFI Fest 2012, American Film Institute

The American Film Institute’s AFI Fest 2012 has announced the films that will be featured in the Young Americans and New Auteurs sections at this year’s festival. Young Americans features works by emerging U.S. filmmakers and New Auteurs highlights first … Read More »

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‘Lincoln’ To World Premiere At AFI Fest; Set As Closing-Night Film Nov. 8

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday September 20, 2012 @ 11:24am PDTTags: American Film Institute, Lincoln

LOS ANGELES, CA, September 20, 2012 – The American Film Institute (AFI) announced today that LINCOLN, directed by AFI Life Achievement Award recipient and Academy Award®-winning director Steven Spielberg, and released by DreamWorks Pictures/Twentieth Century Fox, in association with Participant Media, will have its Official World Premiere on Thursday, November 8, as the Closing Night Gala of AFI FEST 2012 presented by Audi. The film stars Academy Award® winner Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role; Academy Award® winners Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones; Academy Award® nominees David Strathairn, Jackie Earle Haley, John Hawkes and Hal Holbrook; and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader and Jared Harris. Academy Award®-winning composer John Williams scored the film, with 2012 marking a collaboration between Spielberg and Williams that has enriched 26 of their films together. From an original screenplay by Academy Award® nominee Tony Kushner based in part on the best-selling book, “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” by noted historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, the revealing drama explores our 16th President’s tumultuous final months in office during the Civil War.

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Tony Scott’s Family Sets Up AFI Scholarship Fund In His Honor

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 27, 2012 @ 10:50am PDTTags: American Film Institute, Tony Scott
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To honor the life and work of filmmaker Tony Scott, the Scott family has created The Tony Scott Scholarship Fund at AFI to celebrate his creative legacy. The family ask that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to

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AFI Board Of Trustees Adds Coca-Cola’s Katie Bayne

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday July 11, 2012 @ 11:30am PDTTags: American Film Institute

Bayne is president and general manager of sparkling beverages for Coca-Cola North America. She joins Sony’s Howard Stringer, who chairs the 55-member AFI Board of Trustees. Former Warner Bros boss Robert Daly is chair of the 17-member AFI Board of Directors, who also sit on the trustees board. If you’re keeping score at home, here’s the complete Board of Trustees roster:
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Mel Brooks, David Lynch Receive Honorary Degrees At AFI Commencement

By PETE HAMMOND | Wednesday June 13, 2012 @ 5:25pm PDTTags: AFI, American Film Institute, David Lynch, Grauman's Chinese, Mel Brooks
Pete Hammond

June is  the season for graduations around the nation and the American Film Institute is no different. After handing out their 40th Life Achievement Award less than a week ago to Shirley MacLaine today the focus was on those just embarking on a … Read More »

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Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Adventures Of Tintin’ To Close AFI Fest

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday October 31, 2011 @ 4:08pm PDTTags: AFI Fest, American Film Institute, Steven Spielberg, The Adventures of Tintin

Clint Eastwood’s ‘J. Edgar’ To World Premiere As AFI Fest Opener

LOS ANGELES, CA, October 31, 2011 – The American Film Institute (AFI) announced today that Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures’ THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN, directed by AFI Life Achievement Award recipient and Academy Award®-winning director Steven Spielberg, will have its North American Premiere as the Closing Night Gala of AFI FEST 2011 presented by Audi. The film is based on the internationally beloved and irrepressible characters created by Hergé and stars Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. It is produced by Academy Award® winners Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy. From an original screenplay by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, the story follows the unquenchably curious young reporter Tintin and his fiercely loyal dog Snowy as they discover a ship carrying an explosive secret that may hold the key to vast fortune…and an ancient curse. Academy Award®-winning composer John Williams scored the film, with 2011 marking a collaboration between Spielberg and Williams that has enriched 25 of their films together.

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AFI Fest Announces Centerpiece Galas And Special Screenings

By PETE HAMMOND | Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 11:00am PDTTags: AFI, American Film Institute, Carnage, J. Edgar, My Week With Marilyn, Pedro Almodovar, Shame, The Artist, The Lady
Pete Hammond

With just a little more than two weeks to go before its opening-night world premiere gala of Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar on November 3, the American Film Institute has just announced the long list of Centerpiece Galas and Special Screenings for its 25th edition — AFI FEST 2011 presented by Audi. Unlike the Eastwood coup, the lineup doesn’t include any other world or North American premieres and instead is made up of films recently seen in Toronto, Venice, Telluride or New York or combinations of all of the above festivals.

The AFI Fest, which runs November 3-10, is becoming known as the festival of galas, with at least one big red-carpet event every night of the week. Slated as Centerpiece Galas this session are Luc Besson’s The Lady (November 4), which played the Mill Valley Film Festival last week in a version now several minutes shorter than its well-received Toronto Film Festival premiere; Roman Polanski’s Carnage (November 5); My Week With Marilyn (November 6); The Artist (November 8); and Steve McQueen’s controversial Shame (November 9). Also on November 7, the fest will present an evening with Pedro Almodovar, this year’s Guest Artistic Director, who will be presenting his 25-year-old classic Law of Desire and participating in a special onstage conversation. All will be presented at the Chinese theater in Hollywood. Read More »

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AFI Board Of Trustees Adds MPAA’s Dodd

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday October 5, 2011 @ 10:06am PDTTags: American Film Institute, MPAA Chris Dodd

LOS ANGELES, October 5, 2011 – The American Film Institute (AFI) announced today that Chris Dodd, former United States Senator of Connecticut and Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA), and David Rips, President of Verizon Digital Media Services, have been elected to the AFI Board of Trustees, which will next meet on Thursday, October 6 in Los Angeles.

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Pedro Almodovar To Be Guest Artistic Director At AFI Fest

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 29, 2011 @ 6:04am PDTTags: AFI, American Film Institute, Pedro Almodovar
Mike Fleming

The American Film Institute has set Pedro Almodovar to be Guest Artistic Director at AFI Fest 2011. The 25-year-old festival runs Nov. 3-10. Almodovar will present a screening of his 1986 film Law of Desire, which is also 25 years … Read More »

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2011 AFI Awards Scheduled For January 13

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday August 24, 2011 @ 1:25pm PDTTags: AFI Awards, American Film Institute

LOS ANGELES, August 24, 2011 – AFI AWARDS 2011 records each year’s most outstanding achievements in film, television and other forms of the moving image arts. The honorees-only gathering is the only form of national recognition that honors

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AFI Top 10 Film/TV Awards Official Selections

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday December 12, 2010 @ 1:31pm PSTTags: AFI Awards, American Film Institute, Movies, TV

LOS ANGELES, December 12, 2010 – American Film Institute (AFI) today announced the official selections of AFI AWARDS 2010, AFI’s almanac that records the year’s most outstanding achievements in film, television, and other forms of the moving image

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AFI To Honor Morgan Freeman On June 9

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday October 11, 2010 @ 12:42pm PDTTags: American Film Institute, Awards, Morgan Freeman, Movies

LOS ANGELES, CA, October 11, 2010 – Morgan Freeman has been selected by the American Film Institute’s (AFI) Board of Trustees to receive the 39th AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film, it was announced today by Sir Howard Stringer, Chair of the AFI Board of Trustees. The award will be presented to Freeman at a gala tribute on Thursday, June 9, 2011 in Los Angeles, CA.  TV Land will broadcast the 39th AFI Life Achievement Award tribute on TV Land PRIME later in June 2011.

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