Brought to the screen by two recipients of the AFI Life Achievement Award – Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman – MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004) was honored in the year of its release with a 2004 AFI AWARD, recognizing it among the most outstanding motion pictures of year. According to the official rationale, “MILLION DOLLAR BABY...

BOYS DON’T CRY (1999) stars Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank in a story based on the life of Brandon Teena, a transgender man from Nebraska who was murdered in 1993. Making her feature directorial debut with the film four years after making a short about the same subject, Kimberly Peirce was the keynote speaker for...

BOYS DON’T CRY stars Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank in a story based on the life of Brandon Teena, a transgender man from Nebraska who was murdered in 1993. In this exclusive AFI Archive video, watch BOYS DON’T CRY director Kimberly Peirce speak to the AFI DWW 2014 class:   Movie Trivia about BOYS DON’T…