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The American Film Institute (AFI) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is a United States federally funded and donation assisted program that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence....
, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States ....
 signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

The first CEO
Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking Corporate title or Administration in charge of total management of a corporation, company, non-profit organization, or government agency, reporting to the board of directors....
 and director
Managing director

Managing director is the term used for the chief executive of many limited company in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth of Nations and some other English speaking countries....
 was George Stevens, Jr.

In 1969, Czechoslovakian-born Frank Daniel
Frank Daniel

Frank Daniel was a film director, film producer and scriptwriter born in Kol?n, Czechoslovakia . He is known for developing the Screenwriting#The_sequence_approach of screenwriting....
 was appointed the first school's first dean.

In 1980, Jean Picker Firstenberg
Jean Picker Firstenberg

Jean Picker Firstenberg has been the CEO and Director of the American Film Institute since 1980 till her retirement in 2007. After studying at Mount Holyoke College, she attended Boston University, from which she graduated summa cum laude in 1958....
 became Director and CEO.

In 2007, Bob Gazzale, a fifteen-year veteran of AFI, was named president and CEO.

The AFI established a Life Achievement Award
AFI Life Achievement Award

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....
 in 1973.






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The American Film Institute (AFI) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is a United States federally funded and donation assisted program that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence....
, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States ....
 signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

The first CEO
Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking Corporate title or Administration in charge of total management of a corporation, company, non-profit organization, or government agency, reporting to the board of directors....
 and director
Managing director

Managing director is the term used for the chief executive of many limited company in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth of Nations and some other English speaking countries....
 was George Stevens, Jr.

In 1969, Czechoslovakian-born Frank Daniel
Frank Daniel

Frank Daniel was a film director, film producer and scriptwriter born in Kol?n, Czechoslovakia . He is known for developing the Screenwriting#The_sequence_approach of screenwriting....
 was appointed the first school's first dean.

In 1980, Jean Picker Firstenberg
Jean Picker Firstenberg

Jean Picker Firstenberg has been the CEO and Director of the American Film Institute since 1980 till her retirement in 2007. After studying at Mount Holyoke College, she attended Boston University, from which she graduated summa cum laude in 1958....
 became Director and CEO.

In 2007, Bob Gazzale, a fifteen-year veteran of AFI, was named president and CEO.

The AFI established a Life Achievement Award
AFI Life Achievement Award

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....
 in 1973. Their own film festival, AFI Fest, was launched in 1987 and has been held every year. AFI Fest is the first film festival in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 to carry FIAPF
FIAPF

The FIAPF based in Paris, created in 1933, is an organization composed with 31 member associations from 25 of the leading audiovisual production countries....
 accreditation.

Often confused, AFI DALLAS International Film Festival is not an AFI program. AFI DALLAS is a separate non-profit organization with a licensing agreement with the American Film Institute.

In 1998—the 100th anniversary of American film—AFI began its 100 Years... series
AFI 100 Years... series

The American Film Institute, celebrating the 100th anniversary of American film, created several top 100 lists covering movies in United Statesn cinema....
, celebrating and promoting interest in film history; they also preserve old films, which are subject to degradation of film stock
Film stock

Film stock is photographic film on which Film are shot and reproduced....
.

The AFI re-opened the AFI Silver
AFI Silver

The AFI Silver is a three-screen movie theater complex in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, just north of Washington, D.C. in the United States of America....
 theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring, Maryland

Silver Spring is an urbanized, unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. After Baltimore, Maryland and Columbia, Maryland, the Silver Spring Census-designated place is the third most populous place in Maryland....
, near Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
, in April 2003. The AFI Conservatory
AFI Conservatory

The AFI Conservatory is a division of the American Film Institute founded in 1969, located in Hollywood's Griffith Park. Dubbed by some as "Juilliard for Filmmakers," the school is the only existing Master of Fine Arts conservatory in advanced film education....
 focuses on training through hands-on experience with established figures. AFI also produces film education and appreciation materials for middle and high school students. In spite of its name, AFI does not focus exclusively on film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
, but also on television and video
Video

Video is the technology of electronics Videography, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing Scene in motion....
.

Awards


Ceremonies


  • 2005 was the only year when all the nominees of the Academy Award for Best Picture
    Academy Award for Best Picture

    The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
     were also listed as one of the best 10 films of the year: Brokeback Mountain
    Brokeback Mountain

    Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 in film Cinema of the United States romance film-drama film that depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the Western United States from 1963 to 1983....
    , Capote
    Capote (film)

    Capote is a 2005 in film biographical film about Truman Capote on a writing assignment for The New Yorker. Philip Seymour Hoffman won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his critically acclaimed portrayal of the title role....
    , Crash
    Crash (2004 film)

    Crash is a 2005 in film Cinema of the United States/Cinema of Germany drama film, written, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2004, and was released internationally in 2005....
    , Good Night, and Good Luck.
    Good Night, and Good Luck.

    Good Night, and Good Luck. is a 2005 in film directed by George Clooney and written by Clooney and Grant Heslov that portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R....
     and Munich
    Munich (film)

    Munich is a 2005 in film fictional film about the Israeli government's secret retaliation after the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes by Black September gunmen....
    .
  • 2004, 2006 and 2008 only listed 3 Best Picture Oscar nominees – 2004: The Aviator
    The Aviator

    The Aviator is an Cinema of the United States biographical film drama film, film director by Martin Scorsese and based on the life of Howard Hughes....
    , Million Dollar Baby
    Million Dollar Baby

    Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 in film film film director, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman....
     and Sideways
    Sideways

    Sideways is an United States comedy-drama film written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne and directed by Payne. Adapted from Rex Pickett's Sideways , Sideways follows two forty-something men, portrayed by Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, who take a week-long road trip to the wine country of Santa Barbara....
     – 2006: Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima
    Letters from Iwo Jima

    is a 2006 in film war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood whose cast includes Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese Imperial Japanese Army and is a companion piece to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers , which depicts the same battle from the American viewpoin...
     and Little Miss Sunshine
    Little Miss Sunshine

    Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 in film Cinema of the United States comedy-drama film, and the directorial film debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris....
     and 2008: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and first published in Collier's Weekly Magazine during 1921....
    , Frost/Nixon
    Frost/Nixon

    Frost/Nixon is a play by the British people screenwriter and dramatist Peter Morgan . Its subject is the series of televised Frost/Nixon Interviews that former US President Richard Nixon granted David Frost in 1977 and that ended with a tacit admission of guilt regarding his role in the Watergate scandal....
     and Milk
    Milk

    Milk is an opaque white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals . It provides the primary source of nutrition for newborn mammals before they are able to digestion other types of food....
    .
  • Up to 2008, 6 animated features made the list of 10 best films of the year. Shrek
    Shrek

    Shrek is a 2001 in film computer animation Cinema of the United States comedy film, directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, and starring the voices of Mike Myers , Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow....
     (2001), Finding Nemo
    Finding Nemo

    Finding Nemo is a 2002 in film CGI animation film. It was written by Andrew Stanton, directed by Stanton and Lee Unkrich and produced by Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures....
     (2003), The Incredibles
    The Incredibles

    The Incredibles is a computer-animated feature film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, centering on a family of superheroes....
     (2004), Happy Feet
    Happy Feet

    Happy Feet is an Cinema of Australia-produced 2006 computer animation comedy-drama musical film film, directed and co-written by George Miller ....
     (2006), Ratatouille
    Ratatouille (film)

    Ratatouille is a 2007 computer-animated film produced by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was the eighth movie produced by Pixar, and was directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005....
     (2007) and WALL-E
    WALL-E

    WALL-E is a 2008 in film computer animation science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. The film was directed by Andrew Stanton....
     (2008); all of them went on to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
    Academy Award for Best Animated Feature

    The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Los Angeles-based professional organization, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences....
    .
  • 2006 and 2008 were the only years where the eventual Best Picture winner at the Oscars, The Departed
    The Departed

    The Departed is a Cinema of the United States crime film-thriller film remake of the 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs....
     and Slumdog Millionaire
    Slumdog Millionaire

    Slumdog Millionaire is a film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Exclusive Books Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A by Indian English literature and diplomat Vikas Swarup....
    , weren't selected as one of the year's Ten Best.


See also

  • AFI 100 Years... series
    AFI 100 Years... series

    The American Film Institute, celebrating the 100th anniversary of American film, created several top 100 lists covering movies in United Statesn cinema....
  • AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers
    AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers

    100 Years... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies is a list of the most inspiring movies as determined by the American Film Institute....
  • AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains
    AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains

    AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains is a list of the 100 greatest movie heroes and villains chosen by American Film Institute in June 2003....
  • AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
    AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

    The first of the AFI 100 Years... series of cinematic milestones, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies is a list of the 100 best American movies, as determined by the American Film Institute from a poll of more than 1,500 artists and leaders in the film industry who chose from a list of 400 nominated movies....
  • AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)
    AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)

    AFI?s 100 Years...100 Movies ? 10th Anniversary Edition was the 2007 updated version of AFI's 100 Years 100 Movies. The original list was first unveiled in 1998....
  • AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes
    AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes

    Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. The American Film Institute revealed the list in June of 2005 in a three-hour television program on CBS....
  • AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills
    AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills

    Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, 'AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills' is a list of the top 100 thrilling movies in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 12, 2001 during a CBS special hosted by Harrison Ford, who starred in four of the films on the list, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Blade...
  • AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars
    AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars

    Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars is a list of the top 50 stars of United States Cinema of the United States. They were presented by 50 stars of today, adding up to the total of 100 stars....
  • AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs
    AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs

    Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs is a list of the top 100 comedy movies in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 14, 2000....
  • AFI's 10 Top 10
    AFI's 10 Top 10

    AFI's 10 Top 10 honors the ten greatest United States films in ten classic film genres. Presented by the American Film Institute , the lists were unveiled on a television special broadcast by CBS on June 17, 2008....
  • AFI Life Achievement Award
    AFI Life Achievement Award

    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....
  • Australian Film Institute
    Australian Film Institute

    The Australian Film Institute , established in 1958, is an organisation that promotes Australian film and television through the annual Australian Film Institute Awards, a membership program and AFI film events throughout the year....
  • British Film Institute
    British Film Institute

    The British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:...
  • Finnish Film Foundation
    Finnish Film Foundation

    The Finnish Film Foundation , is an independent Foundation with the task of supporting and developing Finland film production, distribution and exhibition....
  • Swedish Film Institute
    Swedish Film Institute

    The Swedish Film Institute was founded in 1963 to support and develop the Swedish film industry. The institute is housed in the Filmhuset building located in G?rdet, a part of ?stermalm in Stockholm....