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AFI AWARDS 2024 HONOREES ANNOUNCED
Honorees to be Celebrated at Non-public Luncheon on January 10, 2025
OR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Los Angeles, CA, December 5, 2024 – The American Movie Institute (AFI) introduced as we speak the AFI AWARDS 2024 honorees. The recipients embody 10 excellent movement photos and 10 excellent tv packages deemed culturally and artistically consultant of this 12 months’s most vital achievements within the artwork of the transferring picture. An extra honoree was chosen for an AFI Particular Award, designated for works of excellence that fall exterior of AFI AWARDS’ eligibility standards.
AFI MOTION PICTURES OF THE YEAR
ANORA
THE BRUTALIST
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
CONCLAVE
DUNE: PART TWO
EMILIA PÉREZ
NICKEL BOYS
A REAL PAIN
SING SING
WICKED
AFI TELEVISION PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY
THE BEAR
HACKS
A MAN ON THE INSIDE
MR. & MRS. SMITH
NOBODY WANTS THIS
THE PENGUIN
SHŌGUN
SHRINKING
TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY
AFI SPECIAL AWARD
BABY REINDEER
“AFI AWARDS isn’t about competitors, however group,” stated Bob Gazzale, AFI President and CEO. “We stay up for bringing these artists collectively as one and celebrating their collective energy to drive tradition ahead.”
Honorees will collect on Friday, January 10, 2025, for recognition on the annual AFI AWARDS personal luncheon on the 4 Seasons Resort Los Angeles at Beverly Hills — an occasion favored by the leisure group for its casual intimacy and its inclusive acknowledgement of excellence.
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AFI AWARDS celebrates movie and tv arts’ collaborative nature and is the one nationwide program that honors artistic groups as a complete, recognizing these in entrance of and behind the digicam. The entire honored works advance the artwork of the transferring picture, encourage audiences and artists alike and improve the wealthy cultural heritage of America’s artwork kind. When positioned in a historic context, these tales present a fancy and wealthy visible report of our trendy world.
AFI AWARDS alternatives are made by means of a jury course of the place AFI Trustees, artists, critics and students decide the 12 months’s most excellent achievements and supply inventive and cultural context for the choice of every honoree.
This 12 months’s juries — one for movement photos and one for tv — included artists Sterlin Harjo, Gale Anne Hurd, Charles Melton, Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph and Jane Seymour; students Mark Harris, Leonard Maltin and extra from Syracuse College, the College of Southern California and the College of California, Santa Cruz; members of the AFI Board of Trustees; critics Ann Hornaday, Mary McNamara, Janet Maslin, Peter Travers and others from The New Yorker, NPR, TV Information and extra. The juries had been chaired by AFI Board of Trustees member Jeanine Basinger (Chair Emerita and Founding father of the Movie Research Division, Wesleyan College) and AFI Board of Trustees Vice Chair Richard Frank (former Chairman of Walt Disney Tv, President of Walt Disney Studios, President of the Academy of Tv Arts and Sciences).
The 2024 recipients be part of a distinguished group of earlier AFI AWARDS honorees whose works outline the artwork kind and contribute to our wealthy cultural legacy. View previous AFI AWARDS honorees.
In regards to the American Movie Institute (AFI)
The American Movie Institute (AFI) is a nonprofit group with a mandate to champion the transferring picture as an artwork kind. Established in 1967, AFI launched the primary complete historical past of American movie and sparked the motion for movie preservation in the US. In 1969, AFI opened the doorways of the AFI Conservatory, a graduate-level program to coach narrative filmmakers. The Conservatory, which counts Deniese Davis, Affonso Gonçalves, Susannah Grant, Matthew Libatique, David Lynch, Melina Matsoukas and Rachel Morrison as Alumni, is ranked as one of many high movie faculties in America. AFI’s enduring traditions embody the AFI Life Achievement Award, which honors the masters for work that has stood the take a look at of time; AFI AWARDS, which celebrates the artistic ensembles of essentially the most excellent display tales of the 12 months; and scholarly efforts such because the AFI Catalog of Characteristic Movies and the AFI Archive that protect movie historical past for future generations. AFI exhibition packages embody AFI FEST and year-round exhibition on the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Heart in Maryland. AFI Film Membership is a vacation spot for film lovers from around the globe to rejoice and interact with the artwork kind daily. Different pioneering packages embody workshops geared toward growing variety within the storytelling group, together with AFI DWW+ and the AFI Cinematography Intensive for Girls. Examine all of those packages and extra at AFI.com and comply with us on social media at Fb.com/
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