July 24, 2026
AMERICAN HUSTLE (2013) – AFI Movie Club
From director David O. Russell, AMERICAN HUSTLE (2013) was honored with a 2013 AFI AWARD, recognizing it as one of the year’s most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image. According to the official AFI AWARDS rationale, “AMERICAN HUSTLE is eight-track entertainment from the feet up – exposing the question, 'What is façade...
April 12, 2026
ARRIVAL (2016) – AFI Movie Club
ARRIVAL was recognized with a 2016 AFI AWARD, naming it among the most outstanding motion pictures of year. According to the official rationale, “ARRIVAL signals cinema’s unique ability to bend time, space and the mind. Denis Villeneuve’s cerebral celebration of communication — fueled by Eric Heisserer’s monumental script – is grounded in unstoppable emotion. As...
December 3, 2025
HER (2013) – AFI Movie Club
A melancholy tale of the near future from visionary director Spike Jonze, HER (2013) was recognized in the year of its release with an AFI AWARD in 2013, naming it among the most outstanding motion pictures of year. According to the official rationale, “HER asks what it is to connect – and what it means...
January 19, 2022
AFI Movie Club: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a charming con man on the run, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (2002) features three AFI Life Achievement Awards honorees – director Steven Spielberg, composer John Williams and star Tom Hanks – as well as two AFI Conservatory Alumni, writer Jeff Nathanson and cinematographer Janusz Kamiński (both AFI Class of 1987)....
April 13, 2020
AFI Movie Club: ARRIVAL
ARRIVAL was honored with an AFI AWARD in 2016 – 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. Watch Emma Roberts announce the film: Movie Trivia about ARRIVAL –DID YOU KNOW ARRIVAL is based on…
January 13, 2017
Watch the AFI AWARDS 2016 Video Almanac
At the AFI AWARDS 2016 luncheon, AFI asked Amy Adams, Mel Gibson, Donald Glover, Chris Pine, Martin Scorsese, Denzel Washington and many other artists what they’d like you to remember about their movies and TV shows, and why movies and television matter now.
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