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GEORGE LUCAS AND STEVEN SPIELBERG TO PRESENT
50TH AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD TO
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Different individuals embrace Robert De Niro, Adam Driver, Harrison Ford, Morgan Freeman, Dustin Hoffman, Ron Howard, C. Thomas Howell, Diane Lane, Spike Lee, Ralph Macchio, Al Pacino and members of the Coppola Household
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Los Angeles, CA – April 22, 2025 – The American Movie Institute (AFI) introduced immediately that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg will current the fiftieth AFI Life Achievement Award to Francis Ford Coppola. Gia Coppola, Roman Coppola, Robert De Niro, Adam Driver, Harrison Ford, Morgan Freeman, Dustin Hoffman, Ron Howard, C. Thomas Howell, Diane Lane, Spike Lee, Ralph Macchio, and Al Pacino shall be among the many friends and presenters. The Gala Tribute will happen on the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA, on April 26, 2025.
“There is just one Francis Ford Coppola,” mentioned Bob Gazzale, AFI President and CEO. “And it’s AFI’s honor to collect the artwork and leisure communities, alongside together with his household, pals and colleagues to have fun cinema – all of it – and the perfect of it.”
The official sponsor of the fiftieth AFI Life Achievement Award Gala dinner is Canva, the all-in-one visible communication platform. The official water sponsor is FIJI Water.
The televised particular, THE 50TH AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA, will premiere on TNT with an encore airing on TCM. This marks the tenth yr the Emmy®-winning AFI Life Achievement Award particular will air on TNT. The air date shall be introduced quickly.
The AFI Life Achievement Award, established by the AFI Board of Trustees in 1973, is introduced to a single honoree every year based mostly on the next standards as mandated by a decision handed by the AFI Board of Trustees: “The recipient needs to be one whose expertise has in a basic means 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.”
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 among the most acclaimed filmmakers of our time; a six-time Academy Award®-winning (together with the 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 nourished the careers of skills corresponding to Carroll Ballard, John Milius, Sofia Coppola, and actors Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, James Caan, Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfuss, 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 modern 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. The movie made its world premiere to a 10-minute standing ovation on the 77th Cannes Movie Pageant, and was launched theatrically and in IMAX globally final fall.
The American Movie Institute is a nonprofit group with a mandate to champion the transferring picture as an artwork kind. All proceeds from the fiftieth AFI Life Achievement Award Gala assist AFI’s schooling and humanities initiatives.
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
Study extra at AFI.com
Concerning the AFI Life Achievement Award
The very best honor given for a profession in movie, the AFI Board of Trustees established the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1973. It’s introduced to a single honoree every year based mostly on the next standards as mandated by a decision handed by the AFI Board of Trustees: “The recipient needs to be one whose expertise has in a basic means 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 introduced 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 affect on the transferring 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.
Concerning 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 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 high 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 tales of the yr; 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 Offered by Canva 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 have fun and have interaction with the artwork kind day-after-day. Different pioneering applications embrace workshops aimed toward elevating rising storytellers and know-how, together with AFI DWW+ and the AFI Cinematography Intensive Workshop. 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 folks than another cable community and recognized for large, lean-forward tv that takes viewers on a thrill trip of electrifying tales, dynamic characters and premium occasions. TNT is house to a few of tv’s hottest sports activities franchises and scripted originals together with “The Librarians: The Subsequent Chapter.” 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 Basic Films (TCM)
Turner Basic Films (TCM) is a two-time Peabody Award-winning community that presents basic movies, uncut and commercial-free, from the biggest movie libraries on this planet highlighting “The place Then Meets Now.” TCM options 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 friends and serves as the final word film lover vacation spot. With three many years as a number one authority in basic movie, TCM provides critically acclaimed sequence like The Necessities and Reframed together with annual programming occasions like 31 Days of Oscar® and Summer time Below the Stars. TCM additionally straight connects with film followers by standard occasions such because the annual TCM Basic Movie Pageant in Hollywood and the TCM Basic Cruise. As well as, TCM produces the wildly profitable podcast “The Plot Thickens.” TCM hosts a wealth of fabric on-line at tcm.com and thru the Watch TCM cell app. Followers may also get pleasure from a basic film expertise on the TCM hub on Max.
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