AFI Awards

Honoring a year of excellence.

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AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Jeanine Basinger

Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures
Wesleyan University
AFI Board of Trustees

Colman Domingo

Actor/Writer/Director

Shawn Edwards

Critic

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Siân Heder

Writer/Director/Producer

Ann Hornaday

Critic
The Washington Post

Lisa Kennedy

Critic

Akira Mizuta Lippit

Historian
University of Southern California

Leonard Maltin

Historian

Janet Maslin

Critic

Lori McCreary

AFI Board of Trustees

Peter Travers

Critic
Rolling Stone

Mario Van Peebles

Actor/Writer/Director/Producer

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Richard Frank

Chair, AFI Jury for Television
Producer
AFI Board of Trustees

W. Kamau Bell

Writer/Director/Producer

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Brad Ingelsby

Writer/Producer

Inkoo Kang

Critic
The New Yorker

L.S. Kim

Historian
University of California, Santa Cruz

Debra Lee

AFI Board of Trustees

Melanie McFarland

Critic
Salon

Mary McNamara

Critic
The Los Angeles Times

Marti Noxon

Writer/Director/Producer

Matt Roush

Critic
TV Guide

Frank Scherma

AFI Board of Trustees

Robert Thompson

Historian
Syracuse University

Jeanine Basinger

Jury Co-Chair
Wesleyan University
AFI Board of Trustees

Richard Frank

Jury Co-Chair
Producer
AFI Board of Trustees

David Bianculli

Critic
National Public Radio

Lee Isaac Chung

Writer/Director

Shawn Edwards

Critic
African American Film Critics Association

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Liz Hannah

Writer/Producer

Ann Hornaday

Critic
The Washington Post

Anjelica Huston

Actress/Director/Producer

Annette Insdorf

Historian

Lisa Kennedy

Critic

L.S. Kim

Historian
University of California, Santa Cruz

Debra Lee

AFI Board of Trustees

Akira Mizuta Lippit

Historian
University of Southern California

Leonard Maltin

Historian

Janet Maslin

Critic

Mary McNamara

Critic
The Los Angeles Times

Claudia Puig

Critic
Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Matt Roush

Critic
TV Guide

Maureen Ryan

Critic

Ellen Seiter

Historian
University of Southern California

Robert Thompson

Historian
Syracuse University

Peter Travers

Critic
Rolling Stone

Ed Zwick

Writer/Director/Producer
AFI Board of Trustees

Jeanine Basinger

Jury Co-ChairWesleyan UniversityAFI Board of Trustees

Richard Frank

Jury Co-ChairProducerAFI Board of Trustees

Debbie Allen

Actor/Director/Producer/Choreographer/ Dancer/Singer/Songwriter

Shawn Edwards

African American Film Critics Association

Cynthia Erivo

Actress/Singer/Songwriter

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Mark Harris

Historian

Molly Haskell

Historian

Ann Hornaday

The Washington Post

Rian Johnson

Director/Producer/Writer

Lisa Kennedy

Critic/Journalist

Debra Lee

AFI Board of Trustees

David Mandel

Producer/Writer

Marlee Matlin

Actress/Producer

Leonard Maltin

Historian

Mary McNamara

The Los Angeles Times

Akira Mizuta Lippit

University of Southern California

Claudia Puig

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Matt Roush

TV Guide

Maureen Ryan

Critic/Journalist

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Director/Producer/Writer

Wes Studi

Actor/Producer

Robert Thompson

Syracuse University

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Lulu Wang

Director/Producer/Writer

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Richard Frank

Chair, AFI Jury for Television
Producer
AFI Board of Trustees

John Amos

Actor

Aymar Jean Christian

Northwestern University

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Lesli Linka Glatter

Director/Producer

L.S. Kim

University of California, Santa Cruz

Debra Lee

AFI Board of Trustees

Mary McNamara

The Los Angeles Times

Matt Roush

TV Guide

Maureen Ryan

Critic/Journalist

Ellen Seiter

University of Southern California

Betty Thomas

Actor/Director/Producer

Robert Thompson

Syracuse University

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Tom Pollock

Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures
Producer
AFI Board of Trustees

Jeanine Basinger

Wesleyan University
AFI Board of Trustees

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Renee Graham

The Boston Globe

Mark Harris

Historian

Ann Hornaday

The Washington Post

Annette Insdorf

Historian

Callie Khouri

Director/Screenwriter/Producer

Delroy Lindo

Actor/Producer

Akira Mizuta Lippit

University of Southern California

Leonard Maltin

Historian

Amy Nicholson

NPR

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Courtney B. Vance

Actor/Producer

Robert Thompson

Syracuse University

Sonia Saraiya

Vanity Fair

Maureen Ryan

Critic/Journalist

Matt Roush

TV Guide

Mary McNamara

The Los Angeles Times

Debra Lee

AFI Board of Trustees

L.S. Kim

University of California, Santa Cruz

Ernest Dickerson

Director/Cinematographer

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

David Benioff

Director/Screenwriter/Producer

Paris Barclay

Director/Producer

Richard Frank

Chair, AFI Jury for Television Producer AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Alfre Woodard

Actor/Producer

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Claudia Puig

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Amy Nicholson

NPR

Leonard Maltin

Historian

Akira Mizuta Lippit

University of Southern California

Lisa Kennedy

The Denver Post

Ann Hornaday

The Washington Post

Mark Harris

Historian

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Joan Chen

Actor/Director/Screenwriter/Producer

Jeanine Basinger

Wesleyan University AFI Board of Trustees

Tom Pollock

Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures Producer AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Robert Thompson

Syracuse University

Janet Staiger

University of Texas, Austin

Maureen Ryan

Variety

Matt Roush

TV Guide

Mary McNamara

The Los Angeles Times

Debra Lee

BET Networks AFI Board of Trustees

L.S. Kim

University of California, Santa Cruz

Jennifer Getzinger

Director

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Gabrielle Carteris

SAG-AFTRA AFI Board of Trustees

David Bianculli

NPR

Paris Barclay

Director/Producer

Richard Frank

Chair, AFI Jury for Television Producer AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Amy Nicholson

NPR

Leonard Maltin

Historian

Lisa Kennedy

The Denver Post

Ann Hornaday

The Washington Post

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Jamie Lee Curtis

Actor/Director/Producer

Jay Cassidy

Editor

Halle Berry

Actor/Producer AFI Board of Trustees

Jeanine Basinger

Wesleyan University AFI Board of Trustees

Judd Apatow*

Director/Screenwriter/Producer

Tom Pollock

Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures Producer AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Diane English

Director/Screenwriter/Producer

Robert Thompson

Syracuse University

Maureen Ryan

Variety

Matt Roush

TV Guide

Mary McNamara

The Los Angeles Times

Lori McCreary

Producer AFI Board of Trustees

Debra Lee

BET Networks AFI Board of Trustees

Michelle King

Screenwriter/Producer

L.S. Kim

University of California, Santa Cruz

Darnell Hunt

University of California, Los Angeles

Jon Hamm

Actor/Director/Producer

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Richard Frank

Chair, AFI Jury for Television Producer AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Patricia Riggen

Director

Amy Nicholson

MTV News

Rachel Morrison

Cinematographer

Leonard Maltin

Historian

Akira Mizuta Lippit

University of Southern California

Lisa Kennedy

The Denver Post

Mark Harris

Historian

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Robert Benton

Director/Screenwriter

Jeanine Basinger

Wesleyan University AFI Board of Trustees

Elizabeth Banks

Actor/Director/Producer

Tom Pollock

Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures Producer AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Michael Wright

DreamWorks Studios AFI Board of Trustees

Matt Williams

Screenwriter/Producer

Robert Thompson

Syracuse University

Renee Tajima-Peña

Director/Producer University of California, Los Angeles

Ellen Seiter

University of Southern California

Maureen Ryan

Variety

Matt Roush

TV Guide

Mary McNamara

The Los Angeles Times

Michelle MacLaren

Director/Producer

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Harvard University

Neal Baer

Screenwriter/Producer AFI Board of Trustees

Richard Frank

Chair, AFI Jury for Television Producer AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Emma Thomas

Producer

John Ridley

Director/Screenwriter

Carrie Rickey

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Bennett Miller

Director

Leonard Maltin

Historian

Lisa Kennedy

The Denver Post

Marshall Herskovitz

Producer/Director/Screenwriter AFI Board of Trustees

Molly Haskell

Historian

Mark Harris

Historian

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Jeanine Basinger

Wesleyan University AFI Board of Trustees

Tom Pollock

Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures Producer AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Michael Wright

Michael Wright AFI Board of Trustees

Robert Thompson

Syracuse University

Chris Silbermann

ICM Partners AFI Board of Trustees

Ellen Seiter

University of Southern California

Maureen Ryan

The Huffington Post

Matt Roush

TV Guide

Phylicia Rashad

Actor

James Poniewozik

TIME

L.S. Kim

University of California, Santa Cruz

Vince Gilligan

Producer/Director/Screenwriter

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Anne Garefino

Producer

Richard Frank

Chair, AFI Jury for Television Producer AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone Magazine

Claudia Puig

USA Today

Leonard Maltin

Historian

Akira Mizuta Lippit

University of Southern California

Matthew Libatique

Cinematographer

Kasi Lemmons

Director/Actor

Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

Patty Jenkins

Director/Screenwriter

Marshall Herskovitz

Producer/Director/Screenwriter AFI Board of Trustees

Mark Harris

Historian

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Jeanine Basinger

Wesleyan University AFI Board of Trustees

Tom Pollock

Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures Producer AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Noah Wyle

Producer/Actor

Robert Thompson

Syracuse University

Chris Silbermann

ICM Partners AFI Board of Trustees

Ellen Seiter

University of Southern California

Maureen Ryan

The Huffington Post

Matt Roush

TV Guide Magazine

Frederick S. Pierce

AFI Board of Trustees

Jeff Nunokawa

Princeton University

Melissa Maerz

Entertainment Weekly

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Dorothy Fontana

Screenwriter Senior Lecturer, AFI Conservatory

Jon Avnet

Producer/Director/Screenwriter AFI Board of Trustees

Richard Frank

Chair, AFI Jury for Television Producer AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone Magazine

Claudia Puig

USA Today

Akira Mizuta Lippit

University of Southern California

Nancy Meyers

Producer/Director/Screenwriter

Leonard Maltin

Historian

Lisa Kennedy

The Denver Post

Marshall Herskovitz

Producer/Director/Screenwriter AFI Board of Trustees

Mark Harris

Entertainment Weekly

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Roman Coppola

Producer/Director/Screenwriter

Anne V. Coates

Editor

Jeanine Basinger

Wesleyan University AFI Board of Trustees

Tom Pollock

Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures Producer AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Robert Thompson

Syracuse University

Janet Staiger

University of Texas at Austin

Chris Silbermann

International Creative Management AFI Board of Trustees

Katey Sagal

Maureen Ryan

The Huffington Post

Matt Roush

TV Guide Magazine

James Poniewozik

Time Magazine

Mary McNamara

Los Angeles Times

L.S. Kim

University of California, Los Angeles

Marta Kauffman

Producer/Screenwriter

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Chris Carter

Producer/Director/Screenwriter

Richard Frank

Chair, AFI Jury for Television Producer AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone Magazine

Octavia Spencer

Actor

Claudia Puig

USA Today

Akira Mizuta Lippit

University of Southern California

Leonard Maltin

"Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide"

Lisa Kennedy

The Denver Post

Marshall Herskovitz

Producer/Director/Screenwriter AFI Board of Trustees

Mark Harris

Entertainment Weekly

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Brad Bird

Director/Screenwriter

Angela Bassett

Actor

Jeanine Basinger

Wesleyan University AFI Board of Trustees

Tom Pollock

Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures Producer AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Ken Tucker

Entertainment Weekly

Betsy Thomas

Producer/Director/Screenwriter

Chris Silbermann

International Creative Management AFI Board of Trustees

Matt Roush

TV Guide Magazine

James Poniewozik

Time Magazine

Fred Pierce

Producer AFI Board of Trustees

Janet Murray

Georgia Institute of Technology

Stephen Kronish

Producer/Screenwriter

Marde Gregory

University of California, Los Angeles

Tim Goodman

The Hollywood Reporter

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Anna Everett

University of California, Santa Barbara

Richard Frank

Chair, AFI Jury for Television Producer AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone Magazine

Suzanne Todd

Producer

Claudia Puig

USA Today

Diana Ossana

Producer/Screenwriter

Leonard Maltin

"Leonard Maltln's Movie Guide"

Akira Mizuta Lippit

University of Southern California

Jim Hosney

Marshall Herskovitz

Producer/Director/Screenwriter AFI Board of Trustees

Mark Harris

Entertainment Weekly

Whoopi Goldberg

Actor

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Jeanine Basinger

Wesleyan University AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Tom Pollock Producer Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Janet Staiger

University of Texas at Austin

John Shaffner

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Production Designer AFI Board of Trustees

Maureen Ryan

AOL

Matt Roush

TV Guide Magazine

James Poniewozik

Time Magazine

Mary McNamara

Los Angeles Times

Anna McCarthy

New York University

Henry Jenkins

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Producer/Actor

Marshall Herskovitz

Producer/Director/Screenwriter AFI Board of Trustees

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Steven Bochco

Producer/Screenwriter

Richard Frank

Chair, AFI Jury for Television Producer AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Michael Wood

Princeton University

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Claudia Puig

USA Today

Elvis Mitchell

THE TREATMENT

Leonard Maltin

ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT "Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide"

Akira Mizuta Lippit

University of Southern California

Bob Gazzale

American Film Institute

Jane Gaines

Columbia University

Lee Daniels

Producer/Director

Diablo Cody

Producer/Screenwriter

Donn Cambern

Editor

Jeanine Basinger

Wesleyan University

Tom Pollock

Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures Producer AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Robert J. Thompson

Syracuse University

John Shaffner

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

Ellen Seiter

University of Southern California

Maureen Ryan

Chicago Tribune

Matt Roush

TV Guide Magazine

CCH Pounder

Actor

Lisa Parks

University of California, Santa Barbara

David Milch

Producer/Screenwriter

Brian Lowry

Variety

L.S. Kim

University of California, Santa Cruz

Bambi Haggins

Arizona State University

Stanley Brooks

Producer

Neal Baer

Chair, AFI Jury for Television Producer/Screenwriter

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Richard Schickel

Historian/Author/Documentary Filmmaker

Claudia Puig

USA Today

Tom Pollock

Producer AFI Board of Trustees

Chon Noriega

University of California, Los Angeles

Elvis Mitchell

THE TREATMENT

Leonard Maltin

ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT

Patty Jenkins

Producer/Director

Mark Harris

Entertainment Weekly/New York Magazine Author

Leo Braudy

University of Southern California

Dustin Lance Black

Producer/Director/Screenwriter

Sean Astin

Actor

Norman Jewison

Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures Producer/Director

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Tony To

Producer/Director

Beretta E. Smith-Shomade

University of Arizona

John Shaffner

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

Ellen Seiter

University of Southern California

Matt Roush

TV Guide

Del Reisman

AFI Conservatory Screenwriter

James Poniewozik

Time Magazine

Kathleen Nolan

Actor

Mary McNamara

Los Angeles Times

Jean Picker Firstenberg

AFI President Emerita

John Caldwell

University of California, Los Angeles

Neal Baer

Producer/Screenwriter

Richard Frank

Chair, AFI Jury for Television AFI Trustee Emeritus

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Tom Pollock

Producer AFI Board of Trustees

Robert Towne

Producer/Director/Screenwriter

Anne Thompson

Variety

Vivian Sobchack

AFI Trustee Emerita University of California, Los Angeles

Richard Schickel

Time Magazine

Daniel Petrie, Jr.

Producer/Director/Screenwriter

Elvis Mitchell

THE TREATMENT

Rick Jewell

University of Southern California

Jim Hosney

American Film Institute

Mark Harris

Entertainment Weekly Author

Mary Corey

University of California, Los Angeles

Jeanine Basinger

Wesleyan University

Leonard Maltin

Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Rich Frank

Chair, AFI Jury for Television AFI Board of Trustees

Dick Askin

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences AFI Board of Trustees

Neal Baer

Producer/Screenwriter

Anna Everett

University of California, Santa Barbara

Nancy Franklin

The New Yorker

Barry Garron

The Hollywood Reporter

Melissa Gilbert

Producer/Director/Actor AFI Trustee Emerita

Horace Newcomb

University of Georgia

Del Reisman

AFI Conservatory Screenwriter

Matt Roush

TV Guide

Maureen Ryan

Chicago Tribune

Robert Thompson

Syracuse University

Ron Underwood

Producer/Director/Screenwriter

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Kristal Brent Zook

Hosftra University

Gary Winick

Producer/Director

Richard Schickel

Time Magazine

Tom Pollock

AFI Board of Trustees

David Picker

Producer AFI Trustee Emeritus

Diana Ossana

Producer/Screenwriter/Novelist

Tara McPherson

University of Southern California

Leonard Maltin

ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT

Lawrence Kasdan

Producer/Director/Screenwriter AFI Trustee Emeritus

Mary Corey

University of California, Los Angeles

Donn Cambern

AFI Conservatory Director/Editor

David Ansen

Newsweek

Frank Pierson

Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures AFI Conservatory Director/Screenwriter

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Dick Askin

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences AFI Board of Trustees

Richard Frank

Chair, AFI Jury for Television AFI Board of Trustees

Steven Bochco

Producer/Screenwriter

Kevin S. Bright

Producer/Director

Paul Brownfield

Los Angeles Times

Michael Dinner

Producer/Director/Screenwriter

Barry Garron

The Hollywood Reporter

Amanda D. Lotz

University of Michigan

Brian Lowry

Variety

Tara McPherson

University of Southern California

Matt Roush

TV Guide

Vivian Sobchack

University of California, Los Angeles AFI Board of Trustees

Kristal Brent Zook

Columbia University

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Robert G. Rehme

Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures Producer AFI Board of Trustees

Michael Apted

Directors Guild of America Producer/Director/Screenwriter AFI Board of Trustees

Roger Birnbaum

Spyglass Entertainment AFI Board of Trustees

Leo Braudy

University of Southern California

James L. Brooks

Producer/Director/Screenwriter

Mary Corey

University of California, Los Angeles

Jane Gaines

Duke University

Elvis Mitchell

National Public Radio

Diana Ossana

Producer/Screenwriter

David V. Picker

Producer AFI Trustee Emeritus

Tom Pollock

Producer AFI Board of Trustees

Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

Anne Thompson

The Hollywood Reporter

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Marshall Herskovitz

Chair, AFI Jury for Television Chair, AFI Jury for Television AFI Board of Trustees

Dick Askin

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Tribune Entertainment Company AFI Board of Trustees

Lionel Chetwynd

Producer/Screenwriter

Mary Corey

University of California, Los Angeles

Tony Jonas

Producer

Jeffrey Kramer

Producer

Melanie McFarland

Seattle Post Intelligencer

Tara McPherson

University of Southern California

James Poniewozik

Time Magazine

Dorothea Petrie

Producer

Matt Roush

TV Guide

Del Reisman

AFI Conservatory

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Robert G. Rehme

Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures Producer AFI Board of Trustees

Martha Coolidge

Director

David Denby

The New Yorker

Anna Everett

University of California, Santa Barbara

Norman Jewison

Producer/Director

Tom Pollock

Producer AFI Board of Trustees

Jay Roach

Producer/Director

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Vivian Sobchack

University of California, Los Angeles AFI Board of Trustees

David Thomson

Film Historian

Stephen Ujlaki

San Francisco State University

Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

Laura Ziskin

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Richard Frank

Chair, AFI Jury for Television The Firm AFI Board of Trustees

Richard Askin, Jr.

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Tribune Entertainment Company AFI Board of Trustees

Neal Baer

Producer/Screenwriter

David Bianculli

The Daily News

Alex Ben Block

Television Week

Barbara Corday

Producer/Screenwriter

Mary Corey

University of California, Los Angeles

Melanie McFarland

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Tara McPherson

University of Southern California

Janet Murray

Georgia Institute of Technology AFI Board of Trustees

Horace Newcomb

University of Georgia George Foster Peabody Awards

Jerry Offsay

Producer

Matt Roush

TV Guide

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Roger Ebert

Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures Chicago Sun-Times EBERT & ROEPER

David Ansen

Newsweek

Jeanine Basinger

Wesleyan University AFI Trustee Emerita

Leo Braudy

University of Southern California

James Cromwell

Actor

Naomi Foner

Producer/Screenwriter

Joan Micklin Silver

Director/Screenwriter

Tom Pollock

Producer AFI Board of Trustees

Robert G. Rehme

Producer AFI Board of Trustees

Richard Schickel

Time Magazine Producer/Director/Screenwriter

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Michael Wood

Princeton University

Janet Yang

Producer

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Diane Werts

Newsday

Dean Valentine

Former President & CEO, UPN

Penelope Spheeris

Director

Matt Roush

TV Guide

Dorothea Petrie

Producer

Horace Newcomb

University of Georgia George Foster Peabody Awards

Brian Lowry

Variety

Helaine Head

University of Southern California

Ted Harbert

Producer

Chuck Fries

Producer AFI Board of Trustees

Mary Corey

University of California, Los Angeles

Irby Brown

University of Richmond

Richard Frank

Chair, AFI Jury for Television Integrated Entertainment Partners AFI Board of Trustees

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Tom Pollock

Producer AFI Board of Trustees

Anne V. Coates

Editor

Vivian Sobchack

University of California, Los Angeles AFI Board of Trustees

Leonard Schrader

AFI Conservatory Director/Screenwriter

Richard Schickel

Time Magazine Producer/Director/Screenwriter

Ted Perry

Middlebury College AFI Trustee Emeritus

Curtis Marez

University of Southern California

Glenn Kenny

Premiere Magazine

Kirk Honeycutt

The Hollywood Reporter

Jay Boyar

Orlando Sentinel

Jeanine Basinger

Wesleyan University AFI Trustee Emerita

John Badham

Director

Leonard Maltin

Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Richard Frank

Chair, AFI Jury for Television

Neema Barnett

Director

Barbara Corday

Producer

Lesli Linka Glatter

Producer/Director

Kay McFadden

The Seattle Times

Horace Newcomb

University of Georgia George Foster Peabody Awards AFI Trustee Emeritus

Daniel Petrie, Jr.

Producer/Director/Screenwrite AFI Board of Trustees

Victoria Riskin

Writers Guild of America Screenwriter

Matt Roush

TV Guide

Robert Thompson

Syracuse University

Anthony Thomopoulos

Former President, ABC Entertainment Media Arts Group, Inc. AFI Trustee Emeritus

Ken Tucker

Entertainment Weekly

Peter Werner

Director AFI Trustee Emeritus

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Tom Pollock

Producer AFI Board of Trustees

David Ansen

Newsweek

Jeanine Basinger

Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures Wesleyan University AFI Trustee Emerita

Julie Dash

Producer/Director/Screenwriter

Lindsey Doran

Producer

Leonard Maltin

ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT

Fay Kanin

Screenwriter AFI Board of Trustees

Jim Hosney

Film Historian/Scholar

Ted Perry

Middlebury College AFI Trustee Emeritus

Bob Rehme

Producer AFI Board of Trustees

Carrie Rickey

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Tom Schatz

University of Texas, Austin

Saul Zaentz

Producer

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

Barrie Lawson Loeks

Loeks-Star Theatres

Lucy Liu

Actor

Brian Lowry

Los Angeles Times

Sidney Lumet

Director

Shirley MacLaine

Actor

Delbert Mann

Director

Todd McCarthy

Variety

Kay McFadden

The Seattle Times

Joyce Millman

Salon.com

Dennis Muren

Digital Effects Artist

Chon Noriega

University of California, Los Angeles

Beverly O’Neill

California Institute of the Arts

Ted Perry

Middlebury College

Polly Platt

Producer/Production Designer

Dale Pollock

N.C. School of the Arts

Dorothy Rabinowitz

The Wall Street Journal

Peter Rainer

New York Magazine

Ken Ralston

Digital Effects Artist

Robert Richardson

Cinematographer

Howard Rosenberg

Los Angeles Times

Laurence Rosenthal

Composer

Gena Rowlands

Actor

Leah Rozen

People Magazine

Eva Marie Saint

Actor

Edgar Scherick

Producer

Lisa Schwartzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Jan Scott

Production Designer

John Singleton

Producer/Director/Screenwriter

Robert Sklar

New York University

Barbara Smith

American Cinematheque

Penelope Spheeris

Director

Steven Spielberg

Producer/Director/Screenwriter AFI Board of Trustees

Rod Steiger

Actor

Jon Storm

Philadelphia Inquirer

Mary Sweeney

Producer/Screenwriter/Editor

Anne Thompson

Premiere Magazine

Robert Thompson

Syracuse University

Richard Sylbert

Production Designer

Steve Tisch

Producer

Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times Cinematographer

Amy Vincent

Cinematographer

Peter Werner

Director

Joanne Weintraub

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Michael Wilmington

Chicago Tribune

Ethel Winant

Producer

David Wolper

Producer AFI Board of Trustees

Eugenio Zanetti

Production Designer

David Zurawik

Baltimore Sun

Hans Zimmer

Composer

Saul Zaentz

Producer

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Debbie Allen

Producer/Director/Actor AFI Board of Trustees

Dede Allen

Editor

David Ansen

Newsweek

Darren Aronofsky

Director/Screenwriter

Alan Ball

Producer/Director/Screenwriter

Neema Barnette

Director

Ron Bass

Producer/Screenwriter

Robert Benton

Director/Screenwriter

Bob Boyle

Production Designer

Pieter Jan Brugge

Producer

Henry Bumstead

Production Designer

Michelle Byrd

Independent Features Project

Marcy Carsey

Producer

Mary Schmidt Campbell

NYU's Tisch School

Anne V. Coates

Editor

Richard Corliss

Time Magazine

Leslie Dilley

Production Designer

Richard Edlund

Digital Effects Artist

Nora Ephron

Producer/Director/Screenwriter

Steven Farber

Movieline

Milos Forman

Director

Stephen Gaghan

Screenwriter

Leslie Linka Glatter

Director

Jerry Goldsmith

Composer

Gary David Goldberg

Producer/Screenwriter

Tim Goodman

San Francisco Examiner

Mary Ann Grasso

National Assoc. of Theatre Owners

Christopher Guest

Director/Screenwriter/Actor

Amy Heckerling

Producer/Director/Screenwriter

Leonard Hill

Producer

Foster Hirsch

Scholar/Historian

Tina Hirsch

Editor

Winnie Holzman

Producer/Screenwriter

Kirk Honeycutt

The Hollywood Reporter

Dawn Hudson

Independent Feature Project West

Greg Hoblit

Producer/Director

Annette Insdorf

Columbia University

Mark Johnson

Producer

Spike Jonze

Director/Actor

Shirley Jones

Actor

Glenn Jordan

Producer/Director

Janusz Kamiński

Cinematographer

James Katz

Preservationist

Rita Kempley

The Washington Post

Kathleen Kennedy

Producer AFI Board of Trustees

Callie Khouri

Screenwriter

James V. Kimsey

AFI Board of Trustees

Arnold Kopelson

Producer

Alan Ladd, Jr.

Producer

Martin Landau

Actor

AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION

AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES

Tom Pollock

Chair, AFI 2000 Jury AFI Board of Trustees

David Ansen

Film Journalist/Critic

Jeanine Basinger

Film Scholar

Bill Duke

AFI Board of Trustees

James Katz

Film Preservationist/Historian

Rita Kempley

Film Journalist/Critic

Michael Nesmith

AFI Board of Trustees

Thomas Schatz

Film Scholar

Vivian Sobchack

AFI Board of Trustees

Anne Thompson

Film Journalist/Critic

Saul Zaentz

Filmmaker

Steven Zaillian

Filmmaker

AFI AWARDS 2011

AFI MOVIES OF THE YEAR

BRIDESMAIDS

marches down the aisle of American comedy with a vow to make you laugh long and loud. Kristen Wiig’s comic star shines bright as her and Annie Mumolo’s ingenious script upends the wedding dream myth by capturing the horror of being named Maid of Honor. Raunchy and uproarious, the fiercely funny ensemble is guided with a sure hand by director Paul Feig, and Melissa McCarthy’s explosive turn marks her arrival as a true original. Read the AFI Catalog entry

THE DESCENDANTS

paints a richly convincing family portrait at once painfully funny and profoundly poignant. Alexander Payne’s strikingly original film balances the intimacy of family tragedy with the expansive politics of dynastic inheritance in the year’s most human comedy. With the weight of paradise on his shoulders, George Clooney delivers an eccentrically elegant turn as the reluctant patriarch who must come to terms with how to let go and when to hold on. Read the AFI Catalog entry

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

invites audiences into a cold, forbidding world of family secrets and implores them to help solve the mystery. Director David Fincher brings Stieg Larsson’s novel to dazzling, dark and disturbing life that pulses with cinematic pleasure. From the astounding opening credits until the harrowing journey ends, Fincher leads a stellar cast including Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer and Rooney Mara, who carves the name “Lisbeth Salander” atop the list of 2011’s most transcendent performances. Read the AFI Catalog entry

THE HELP

is an intimate epic that measures the cultural divide in the American south at a critical moment in the nation’s march toward racial harmony. Tate Taylor’s film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s bestseller soars above and beyond stereotypes to illustrate how tolerance is taught, not inherited. Measured and moving performances by Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain help make THE HELP remind us that movies can be smart, movies can be kind and movies can be important. Read the AFI Catalog entry

HUGO

unlocks the hearts of all who love the movies with a key forged by grand illusionist Martin Scorsese. The film beckons audiences into a world of wonder through the eyes of a young hero, a world alive in new ways through Robert Richardson’s resplendent use of 3D. This dazzling adventure is also a meditation on life and loss, deeply rooted in the powerful role movies play in our reality. With a proper tip of the beret to early pioneers Harold Lloyd and George Méliès, we are reminded that each film is a gift, and that when the masters intone, “Come dream with me,” through the magic of the movies, we do. Read the AFI Catalog entry

J. EDGAR

illuminates the dark corners of America’s past with an ambition only attainable by an American master like Clint Eastwood. Armed with an impassioned script by Dustin Lance Black, Eastwood presents an intimate portrait of FBI Chief Hoover while moving effortlessly back and forth through time and in and out of shadows. Leonardo DiCaprio gives meaning to a monster in a towering performance that digs beneath Hoover’s G-man public image to the private man who kept a nation’s secrets while zealously guarding his own. Read the AFI Catalog entry

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS

offers a champagne toast to those who live in the present, but dream of an ideal past. Owen Wilson charms in this enchanting, post-dated postcard from the City of Lights, a stroke-of-midnight fantasy that brings to life Fitzgerald, Picasso, Hemingway and Belle Epoch figures like Degas and Lautrec. Sparkling and literate, this Francophile fantasia reminds us how lucky we are to be living in the Golden Age of Woody Allen. Read the AFI Catalog entry

MONEYBALL

scores with a winning combination of sports and smarts. There’s nothing by-the-numbers in this ultimate inside-baseball movie, a story driven home by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin’s classic underdog script with a fresh, statistical twist. MVP performances by Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill and controlled direction by Bennett Miller celebrate the spirit of a maverick manager who believes that how we play the game of our lives is as important as winning. Read the AFI Catalog entry

THE TREE OF LIFE

is an awe-inspiring, cinematic miracle. Terrence Malick’s meditation on mortality is testament to the motion picture’s deep roots in poetry — that images and words together can embody life. Emmanuel Lubezki’s stunning visuals and compelling performances by Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain and young Hunter McCracken embrace humanity in this tale of the cosmic and the microscopic. Ultimately, Malick forges a path between nature and grace, and generations will be held spellbound under the watch of his creation. Read the AFI Catalog entry

WAR HORSE

advances Steven Spielberg’s gallant charge into the history of American film. A masterpiece from foal to finish, the film is an epic odyssey of friendship against all odds. Marked by a driving intensity in each scene — from the plowing of a field to the battlefields of World War I — this is grand scale filmmaking in the tradition of John Ford and David Lean, but presented with a brave and bold emotion only imaginable from Spielberg and his talented team. WAR HORSE is proof that miracles can happen. Read the AFI Catalog entry

AFI TELEVISION PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR

BOARDWALK EMPIRE

struts into its second year with an intoxicating air, adding new layers of complexity to this sumptuous, sprawling saga of Atlantic City during Prohibition. Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter command a talented ensemble that tells a tale of America, this year uncorking the emotional inner life of Steve Buscemi’s “Nucky Thompson” and the world he rules with an iron fist.

BREAKING BAD

raises hell with such explosive authority that it defines the Faustian bargain for a new generation. Vince Gilligan’s ingenious fable of violent corruption was marked in 2011 by the unpredictable battle of wills between Bryan Cranston’s monstrous hero and Giancarlo Esposito’s icy kingpin. “I won” are the words that ended the year, and that is true for all who experienced this landmark in the history of American television.

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

continues to transform one man’s neuroses into cultured pearls of comedy with Larry David as the essential grain of sand. Marking its 80th episode in 2011, the show’s genius continues to alchemize improv and insight, this year adding the terms “Palestinian chicken” and “social assassin” to the American lexicon and delivering borscht belt belly laughs to Beverly Hills and beyond.

GAME OF THRONES

serves up a filmic feast worthy of seven kings. David Benioff and D.B. Weiss’s vast epic fantasy smashes through the “small screen” with clashing swords, lusty clinches and kingdoms for the taking. Though magic and mythology swirl and surround, it is the human tale of honor, family and treachery that places this tale of dynastic mayhem in the pantheon.

THE GOOD WIFE

is great television. Michelle and Robert King’s deeply compelling drama asks what it is to show a public face, to live private life and to be strong in a world of secrets. Julianna Margulies leads a stellar ensemble in this ever-intelligent story of a woman spurned, whose journey forward enlightens the dark world of politics, the liberties of law and the complexities of what it is to be “good.”

HOMELAND

is a taut and timely tale of homeland insecurity. Creators Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon present a world ten years after 9/11, one where the nation’s war on terror brings a psychological simmer to a rapid boil. Electrifying performances by Claire Danes and Damian Lewis drive this cat and mouse thriller that is, at its core, an emotional meditation on what it is to feel secure.

JUSTIFIED

goes down as smooth as blended whiskey and delivers a spectacular kick. Graham Yost has reinvented the classic American western as a twangy, tangy Kentucky-fried crime drama set in present day. Distilled by the wit and unforced whimsy of Elmore Leonard, the show mines for riches with fully realized characters created by the lethally charming Timothy Olyphant and Margo Martindale, whose monstrous mountain matriarch embodies the show’s folksy menace.

LOUIE

looks at laughter with an unblinking eye and finds the year’s most original comedy. Born from the inspired mind of producer-writer-director-editor-stand-up comedian Louis C.K., the show’s brilliant contrast of a man funny and unforced onstage, while a self-deprecating single dad offstage, paints a dynamic new comic character in a rich and rewarding frame.

MODERN FAMILY

is a happy marriage of hilarity and humanity. Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd’s giddy group hug continues to break down the idea of an ideal with a battering ram of life-affirming laughter. From the subtlest of wordplay to the broadest of slapstick, the insanely loveable comic ensemble never fails to ignite what’s fresh and funny about kith and kin.

PARKS AND RECREATION

has put Pawnee, Indiana on the map of American comedy. Greg Daniels and Michael Schur’s merry band of civil servants are led with antic authority by Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman, whose characters are closing in on cult status among those looking for a laugh. Grown from seeds of optimism, the show blossoms with buffoonery as these loveable bureaucrats try in earnest to make their city – and television – a better place.

SPECIAL AWARDS*

THE ARTIST

is the singing, dancing sensation of 2011! Writer-director Michel Hazanavicius’ love letter to Hollywood’s silent era is filmmaking both bold and bravura in our digital age, with spirits perfectly embodied by leading man Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo’s fetching starlet. In the film’s final frames, new generations will discover that old time glamour and the earliest tools of an American art form possess the power to leave an audience speechless.

THE HARRY POTTER SERIES

marks the final triumphant chapter of a landmark series; eight films that earned the trust of a generation who wished for the beloved books of J.K. Rowling to come to life on the silver screen. The collective wizardry of an epic ensemble gave us the gift of growing older with Harry, Ron and Hermione as the magic of Hogwarts sprung from the films and into the hearts and minds of Muggles around the world.

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