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FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA TO RECEIVE 50TH AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
America’s Highest Honor For A Profession In Movie
To Be Offered
On April 26, 2025, At Gala Tribute
To Profit AFI’s Training And Arts Initiatives
OR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Los Angeles, CA, October 29, 2024 – The American Movie Institute (AFI) Board of Trustees introduced at the moment that Francis Ford Coppola would be the fiftieth recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award, America’s highest honor for a profession in movie. The award will probably be offered to Coppola at a Gala Tribute on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 26, 2025.
“Francis Ford Coppola is a peerless artist – one who has created seminal works within the canon of American movie, and has additionally impressed generations of filmmakers who now embody his artistry and his unbiased spirit,” stated Kathleen Kennedy, Chair of the AFI Board of Trustees. “AFI is honored to current him with the fiftieth AFI Life Achievement Award.”
Coppola’s THE GODFATHER, THE GODFATHER PART II and APOCALYPSE NOW are ranked amongst historical past’s best movies in AFI’s 100 Years…100 Films listing. He is without doubt one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of our time; a six-time Academy Award®-winning (together with the Board of Governors’ Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award) director, author and producer of such movies as PATTON, THE GODFATHER TRILOGY, AMERICAN GRAFFITI, THE CONVERSATION, APOCALYPSE NOW, THE OUTSIDERS, BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA and his newest epic, MEGALOPOLIS.
Because the co-founder of American Zoetrope with George Lucas, Coppola initiated and nourished the careers of abilities similar to Carroll Ballard, John Milius, Sofia Coppola, and actors Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, James Caan, Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfus, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, Matt Dillon and Diane Lane. As a author, director, producer and technological pioneer, he created a physique of labor that has helped form up to date American cinema. Coppola’s newest movie MEGALOPOLIS is a Roman epic set in fashionable instances with an all-star solid together with Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne and Aubrey Plaza. This 12 months, the movie made its world premiere to a 10-minute standing ovation on the Cannes Movie Competition, and was launched theatrically and in IMAX globally earlier this fall.
The AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute particular will return for its tenth 12 months with Turner Broadcasting to air on TNT, adopted by encore displays on Turner Traditional Films (TCM).
The American Movie Institute is a nonprofit group with a mandate to champion the shifting picture as an artwork type. All proceeds from the fiftieth AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute Gala help AFI’s schooling and humanities initiatives. Study extra about AFI at AFI.com.
AFI Life Achievement Award Recipients
The fiftieth AFI Life Achievement Award Honoree joins an esteemed group of people who’ve been chosen for this distinguished honor since its inception.
1973 John Ford
1974 James Cagney
1975 Orson Welles
1976 William Wyler
1977 Bette Davis
1978 Henry Fonda
1979 Alfred Hitchcock
1980 James Stewart
1981 Fred Astaire
1982 Frank Capra
1983 John Huston
1984 Lillian Gish
1985 Gene Kelly
1986 Billy Wilder
1987 Barbara Stanwyck
1988 Jack Lemmon
1989 Gregory Peck
1990 David Lean
1991 Kirk Douglas
1992 Sidney Poitier
1993 Elizabeth Taylor
1994 Jack Nicholson
1995 Steven Spielberg
1996 Clint Eastwood
1997 Martin Scorsese
1998 Robert Smart
1999 Dustin Hoffman
2000 Harrison Ford
2001 Barbra Streisand
2002 Tom Hanks
2003 Robert De Niro
2004 Meryl Streep
2005 George Lucas
2006 Sean Connery
2007 Al Pacino
2008 Warren Beatty
2009 Michael Douglas
2010 Mike Nichols
2011 Morgan Freeman
2012 Shirley MacLaine
2013 Mel Brooks
2014 Jane Fonda
2015 Steve Martin
2016 John Williams
2017 Diane Keaton
2018 George Clooney
2019 Denzel Washington
2022 Julie Andrews
2024 Nicole Kidman
In regards to the AFI Life Achievement Award
The best honor given for a profession in movie, the AFI Board of Trustees established the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1973. It’s offered to a single honoree every year based mostly on the next standards as mandated by means of a decision handed by the AFI Board of Trustees: “The recipient needs to be one whose expertise has in a basic approach superior the movie artwork; whose accomplishment has been acknowledged by students, critics, skilled friends and most of the people; and whose work has stood the take a look at of time.”
Most just lately, AFI offered the forty ninth AFI Life Achievement Award to Nicole Kidman on Saturday, April 27, at a Gala Tribute in Hollywood. Lee Daniels, Ava DuVernay, Zac Efron, Cynthia Erivo, Morgan Freeman, Barry Jenkins, David E. Kelley, Joey King, Mimi Leder, Mike Myers, Edward James Olmos, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jane Seymour, Meryl Streep, Brian Tee, Miles Teller, Lulu Wang, Naomi Watts and extra stuffed the Dolby Theatre to have fun Kidman’s award-winning profession and her indelible impression on the shifting arts. The occasion additionally featured tributes honoring Kidman, together with speeches from Zoe Saldaña, Aaron Sorkin, Keith City, Reese Witherspoon, amongst others and taped messages from Hugh Jackman, Jane Campion, Jimmy Fallon, Cate Blanchett, George Miller, Baz Luhrmann and Russell Crowe.
In regards to the American Movie Institute (AFI)
The American Movie Institute (AFI) is a nonprofit group with a mandate to champion the shifting picture as an artwork type. Established in 1967, AFI launched the primary complete historical past of American movie and sparked the motion for movie preservation in america. 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 prime movie colleges in America. AFI’s enduring traditions embrace 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 screen 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 applications embrace AFI FEST and year-round exhibition on the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Middle in Maryland. AFI Film Membership is a vacation spot for film lovers from all over the world to have fun and interact with the artwork type day-after-day. Different pioneering applications embrace workshops aimed toward growing variety within the storytelling neighborhood, together with AFI DWW+ and the AFI Cinematography Intensive for Girls. Examine all of those applications and extra at AFI.com and comply with us on social media at Fb.com/
About TNT
TNT, a Warner Bros. Discovery model, is watched by extra individuals than every other cable community and identified for large, lean-forward tv that takes viewers on a thrill journey of electrifying tales, dynamic characters and premium occasions. TNT is house to a few of tv’s hottest sports activities franchises and unscripted and scripted originals together with “AEW: Rampage,” “Wealthy & Shameless,” and “The Lazarus Mission”. TNT additionally presents primetime specials and sports activities protection, together with the NHL, NBA and NCAA Division I Males’s Basketball Championships. Web site: www.tntdrama.com
About Turner Traditional Films (TCM)
Turner Traditional Films (TCM) is a two-time Peabody Award-winning community that presents traditional movies, uncut and commercial-free, from the biggest movie libraries on the earth highlighting “the place then meets now.” TCM options the insights from Primetime host Ben Mankiewicz together with hosts Alicia Malone, Dave Karger, Jacqueline Stewart and Eddie Muller, plus interviews with a variety of particular visitors and serves as the last word film lover vacation spot. With greater than 20 years as a number one authority in traditional movie, TCM presents annual programming occasions like 31 Days of Oscar® and Summer season Beneath the Stars. TCM additionally instantly connects with film followers by means of in style occasions such because the annual TCM Traditional Movie Competition in Hollywood and the TCM Traditional Cruise. As well as, TCM produces the wildly profitable podcast “The Plot Thickens,” which has had greater than 9 million downloads thus far. TCM hosts a wealth of fabric on-line at tcm.com and thru the Watch TCM cellular app. Followers may get pleasure from a traditional film expertise on the TCM hub on Max.
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