Featuring the creative efforts of two AFI Life Achievement Award honorees – director/producer Steven Spielberg and composer John Williams – EMPIRE OF THE SUN (1987) was also producer by Kathleen Kennedy, who today serves as Chair of the American Film Institute’s Board of Trustees. Visit the AFI Catalog to learn more about EMPIRE OF THE...

Directed by Wolfgang Peterson and featuring a stellar supporting cast that includes John Malkovich and Rene Russo, IN THE LINE OF FIRE (1993) stars AFI Life Achievement Award honoree Clint Eastwood as an aging secret service agent faced with a new threat. The taut thriller was edited by Anne V. Coates, a recipient of an...