March 28, 2022
Academy Award Wins for AFI Alumni
Photo caption: Siân Heder (AFI DWW Class of 2005) accepts the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for CODA - Credit: Blaine Ohigashi/A.M.P.A.S. Congratulations to Siân Heder (AFI DWW Class of 2005), winner of Best Adapted Screenplay for CODA, which marks her first Oscar® win – along with the film’s win for Best Picture and...
February 8, 2022
Oscar Nominations for the 94th Academy Awards: AFI Alumni Projects
In a live presentation streamed globally, Emmy®-winning actor-comedian Leslie Jordan (WILL & GRACE, THE HELP) and Emmy®-nominated actor-CEO-producer Tracee Ellis Ross (BLACK-ISH, THE HIGH NOTE) announced the 94th Oscars® nominations in all 23 Academy Award® categories. Congratulations to AFI Alumni Siân Heder, Janusz Kamiński and Kim Magnusson on their nominations. Best Adapted Screenplay CODA Siân...
January 18, 2021
AFI Movie Club: Behind the Scene with SELMA’s David Oyelowo
SELMA was honored with an AFI AWARD in 2014 – recognizing it as one of the 10 outstanding films deemed culturally and artistically representative of the year’s most significant achievements in the art of the moving image. Ava DuVernay's visionary film invited audiences “to rise above the breathless shame of our nation’s past and come...
January 10, 2021
AFI Movie Club Rewind: THE COLOR PURPLE
This film was originally selected as an AFI Movie Club pick on May 27, 2020. THE COLOR PURPLE, based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, ranks #51 on AFI’s list of the most inspiring films in American history. Steven Spielberg, who directed the film, was the recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995....
September 21, 2020
AFI Movie Club: BOYZ N THE HOOD
The directorial debut of John Singleton, BOYZ N THE HOOD features an all-star cast that includes Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Morris Chestnut, Nia Long, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett and Regina King. Click Here to Find Out How to Watch BOYZ N THE HOOD Now BOYZ N THE HOOD – Reelgood Watch Chiwetel Ejiofor…
July 2, 2020
AFI Movie Club: DREAMGIRLS
DREAMGIRLS received an AFI AWARD in 2006 – recognizing it as culturally and artistically representative of the year’s most significant achievements in the art of the moving image Movie Trivia about DREAMGIRLS -DID YOU KNOW that DREAMGIRLS is based on a hit Broadway musical that opened in 1981? DREAMGIRLS was inspired by the careers…
June 22, 2020
AFI DOCS Announces 2020 Award Winners
Congratulations to all the films and filmmakers that screened at AFI DOCS 2020! The five-day online festival ran June 17-21 and included live Q&A’s with filmmakers and DOCS Forum events with industry leaders and activist. The festival’s Audience Award for Best Feature went to TRANSHOOD, directed by Sharon Liese. The Audience Award for Best Short…
May 25, 2020
AFI Movie Club: THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
Watch today’s film on TCM tonight at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT / 7 p.m. CT. AFI Life Achievement Award recipient William Wyler helmed THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES – deemed not only one of the greatest American films by AFI but also one of the art form’s most inspiring stories. Movie Trivia…
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