
November 23, 2022
Announcing the 2022 AFI Conservatory Grant Award Winners
The American Film Institute announced at the 2022 AFI Alumni Reunion the recipients of the AFI Conservatory Alumni Awards. The awards recognize outstanding achievement in directing and screenwriting at AFI, and include the Richard P. Rogers Spirit of Excellence Award, the William J. Fadiman Award and the Franklin J. Schaffner Fellow Award. The AFI Alumni...

February 1, 2022
2022 Sundance Film Festival Reveals Award-winning AFI Projects
The 2022 Sundance Film Festival officially concluded Sunday, January 30. Despite pivoting to an online festival in light of the Omicron variant, the festival was marked by a new wave of innovative narrative and documentary storytelling, including cutting-edge debuts which tackled a variety of diverse and timely subjects such as political dissent (NAVALNY), racial bias...

August 21, 2020
AFI Named #1 Film School in America
We couldn’t be more proud of our Fellows, Faculty and Alumni! This week, The Hollywood Reporter – which has established itself as the “go to” list for the “Top 25 Film Schools in America” – released their ranking for 2020 and named AFI Conservatory as the nation’s top film school. Under the leadership of Dean...

July 5, 2015
AFI Thesis Films Win Five College Television Awards
Graduates from the AFI Conservatory’s Class of 2014 are already winning awards. AFI’s most recent alumni won five out of 16 awards — more than any other film school — at this year’s prestigious 36th College Television Awards, hosted by the Television Academy. Winners of these awards, which mirror the Emmy Awards®, were selected by active…

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