Featuring AFI Life Achievement Award honoree Harrison Ford in an early role, as well as production design by AFI Honorary Degree recipient Dean Tavoularis, THE CONVERSATION (1974) is an enduring masterpiece written, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola – who tonight will join the ranks of great artists who have earned the highest honor...

Other participants include Robert De Niro, Adam Driver, Harrison Ford, Morgan Freeman, Dustin Hoffman, Ron Howard, C. Thomas Howell, Diane Lane, Spike Lee, Ralph Macchio, Al Pacino and members of the Coppola Family The American Film Institute (AFI) announced today that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg will present the 50th AFI Life Achievement Award to…

Directed by Kenneth Branagh and produced by Francis Ford Coppola – soon to be honored as the 50th recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award – MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN (1994) features a tragic and quintessentially human central performance from AFI Life Achievement Award honoree Robert De Niro as the Creature. Visit the AFI Catalog to...

The AFI Board of Trustees announced today that Francis Ford Coppola will be the 50th recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award, America’s highest honor for a career in film. The award will be presented to Coppola at a Gala Tribute at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 26, 2025. “Francis Ford Coppola...

Secure in the pantheon of the greatest American films of all time, THE GODFATHER (1972) earned its place across five of the American Film Institute’s lists – first appearing at #3 on the original list of cinema’s greatest screen stories and moving into the #2 slot for the 10th anniversary edition. The iconic family saga...