American Film Institute Articles

Orson Welles in Welles' own Citizen Kane (top); Gregory Peck, Brock Peters in Robert Mulligan's To Kill a Mockingbird (middle); Barbra Streisand in William Wyler's Funny Girl (bottom) This list of AFI Life Achievement Award winners was culled from Wikipedia. The number on the right represents the honorees' age at the time of the award. Shirley MacLaine will be 78 next June 7. 1973 John [...]

Natalie Portman, Black Swan No major surprises are to be found in the American Film Institute's list of best American movies released in 2010. Debra Granik's Winter's Bone was included, and so were Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right, Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, Christopher Nolan's Inception, and David O. Russell's The Fighter. Needless to say, David Fincher's The Social Network and Darren Aronofsky's Black [...]

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, directed by Mike Newell and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, will have its Hollywood premiere on Monday, May 17, 2010, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. The event will benefit the American Film Institute. Also as part of the AFI benefit, Mann Chinese 6 and El Capitan Theatre will present "A Cinematic Celebration of Jerry Bruckheimer," which will include [...]

Algenis Perez Soto in Sugar There were a couple of surprises among the American Film Institute's feature-film choices for its AFI Awards 2009: Todd Phillips' low-brow box-office smash The Hangover and Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's little-seen Sugar. The story of Dominican baseball player (Algenis Perez Soto) who dreams of one day joining the major leagues, Sugar was a particularly interesting pick as thus far [...]