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...

Featuring stunning performances from AFI Life Achievement Award honoree Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman – soon to be the 49th recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award – director Stephen Daldry’s THE HOURS (2002) was recognized in the year of its release with an AFI AWARD, naming it among the most outstanding motion...