AFI on Tumblr

Month

December 2010

4 posts

AFI Awards 2010: Official Selections Announced → blog.afi.com



AFI Honors Top Ten Most Outstanding
Motion Pictures and Television Programs of the Year

New Special Awards Added

LOS ANGELES, December 12, 2010 – American Film…

Dec 14, 2010
AFI Alumni 2011 Sundance Film Festival → blog.afi.com




Congratulations to the following AFI Alumni who have films in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival:

SUNDANCE LINEUP OF AFI ALUMNI 2011

U.S. DRAMATIC…

Dec 8, 2010
THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING AS ITS FIRST-EVER LIMITED EDITION FILM POSTER → blog.afi.com



THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING AS ITS FIRST-EVER LIMITED EDITION FILM POSTER

POSTER IS A COLLECTABLE AFI MEMBER…

Dec 7, 20104 notes
John Lasseter On The Heart Of TOY STORY

Director John Lasseter talks about the heart of TOY STORY.

Dec 7, 20102 notes
#toy story #tom hanks #john lasseter #AFI #American Film Institute

November 2010

5 posts

Billy Crystal On The Marx Brothers

Nov 22, 20102 notes
#billy crystal #marx brothers #AFI #American Film Institute
AFI Fest 2010 Presented By Audi: Audience and Jury Awards Announced → blog.afi.com



AFI FEST 2010 presented by Audi announced today the four feature and two short films that are the recipients of this year’s Audience and Jury Awards. The films will screen again today…

Nov 12, 2010
AFI Fest 2010 Presented By Audi: YouTube Playlist

Nov 12, 20103 notes
#youtube #playlist #AFI Fest #2010 #audi #black swan #movies #films #AFI #American Film Institute
HP Powers New Generation of Filmmakers at AFI Conservatory with Z Workstations → blog.afi.com



LOS ANGELES, Nov 04, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — At the AFI Conservatory, the Master of Fine Arts program of the American Film Institute, a new generation of storytellers is…

Nov 6, 20102 notes
SILVERDOCS 2011 Annouces Festival Dates And Call For Submissions → blog.afi.com



Silverdocs will run June 20 – 26, 2011, and will begin accepting submissions for its ninth annual Festival on November 12!

Submission deadlines:

Early: January 7

Regular:…

Nov 3, 20102 notes

October 2010

2 posts

Eight Nights of Red Carpet Galas at AFI Fest Presented By Audi → blog.afi.com



AFI FEST 2010 presented by Audi today announced its Centerpiece Galas, featuring ABEL (DIR Diego Luna), BARNEY’S VERSION (DIR Richard J. Lewis), BLUE VALENTINE (DIR Derek…

Oct 13, 2010
Morgan Freeman To Receive 39th AFI Life Achievement Award → blog.afi.com



MORGAN FREEMAN TO RECEIVE 39th AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

America’s Highest Honor for a Career in Film to be Presented June 9, 2011

LOS ANGELES, CA, October 11, 2010 –…

Oct 12, 20102 notes

September 2010

4 posts

Filmmakers Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden Talk To AFI Fellows → blog.afi.com



Filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden visited the AFI Los Angeles campus this week to screen their film IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY to the AFI Conservatory Fellows….

Sep 24, 20101 note
World Premiere Of LOVE & OTHER DRUGS As Opening Night Gala And BLACK SWAN As Closing Night Gala → blog.afi.com



AFI FEST 2010 presented by Audi announced today that it will host the world premiere of Edward Zwick’s LOVE & OTHER DRUGS as the festival’s Opening Night Gala on November…

Sep 24, 2010
Dustin Hoffman On Humphrey Bogart

Sep 21, 20102 notes
#dustin hoffman #AFI #American Film Institute #Humphrey Bogart #Casablanca
Five AFI Alums Collaborate On LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS; Speak at the AFI Conservatory Opening Day Seminar → blog.afi.com



Alumni Ed Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Steve Rosenblum, Steve Fierberg and Pieter Jan Brugge



AFI Alumni Ed Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Steve Rosenblum, Steve Fierberg…

Sep 3, 2010
AFI Alum & AFI Faculty Team Up For Emmy → blog.afi.com



Congratulations to Dante Di Loreto (Producing, ‘91) and Director Mick Jackson for their contributions to the Emmy-winning HBO Film TEMPLE GRANDIN. Jackson recently…

Aug 31, 2010

August 2010

3 posts

David Lynch Announced As First-Ever Guest Artistic Director Of AFI FEST 2010 presented by Audi → blog.afi.com



Lynch Creates Art for the Festival to Serve as the Official Image and will Program Films that Influence and Inspire Him


LOS ANGELES, CA, August 24, 2010 – AFI FEST…

Aug 26, 20104 notes
Robert F. Boyle, Hitchcock’s Art Director & Distinguised AFI Conservatory Lecturer, Dies at 100 → blog.afi.com



Bob Boyle passed away on Sunday, August 1, 2010. He was 100.

Boyle received an Honorable Academy Award in 2008 “in recognition of one of the great careers in art direction.” A…

Aug 3, 20102 notes

July 2010

8 posts

American Airlines: The Official Airline of the American Film Institute → blog.afi.com



AFI would like to take this opportunity to thank our generous sponsor, and official Airline of the American Film Institute, American Airlines.

Follow American Airlines on…

Jul 26, 2010
AFI Alumni Selected To Variety’s Up Next: Masters Of Their Craft → blog.afi.com



Congratulations to the following AFI Alums who have been selected to Variety’s UP NEXT: MASTERS OF THEIR CRAFT:

Petra Korner (C ‘02), Cinematographer
Edd Lukas (C ‘08),…

Jul 26, 2010
Sigourney Weaver On The Classical Music In FANTASIA

Sigourney Weaver talks about the impact of the classical music from Disney’s FANTASIA on her when she was a child.

Jul 19, 2010
#sorcer's apprentice #AFI #American Film Institute #Fantasia #Disney #Sigourney Weaver
AFI Alumni Film Win Top Awards at Short Shorts Fest – Largest Film Festival in Asia → blog.afi.com



Congratulations to Ken Ochiai (D ‘08), Producer/Writer/Director and Nodoka Kato (E ‘09), Editor for taking home two top awards at the largest film festival in Asia, the …

Jul 16, 20101 note
AFI Alumni Nominated For Emmy Awards → blog.afi.com



Congratulations to the following AFI Alumni who have been nominated for the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards!

Uta Briesewitz (C ’94), Director of Photography, Outstanding…

Jul 14, 20102 notes
AFI VIDEO: Speeches From the 38th AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute To Mike Nichols → blog.afi.com



25 clips of speeches from Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey, Robin Williams, Jack Nicholson, and more at the 38th AFI Life…

Jul 7, 20101 note
AFI Conservatory Extends Application Deadline For Cinematography And Production Design → blog.afi.com



The AFI Conservatory has been educating professional filmmakers for more than 40 years. Today the AFI Conservatory announced that it is extending the application deadline…

Jul 1, 20101 note
Elaine May Salutes Albert Einstein's Cousin - Mike Nichols - at the AFI Life Achievement Award

Elaine May gives a hilarious salute to Mike Nichols and points out the fact that he is actually a cousin of famed physicist Albert Einstein at the 38th AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute To Mike Nichols.

Jul 1, 20101 note
#AFI #American Film Institute #Elaine May #Funny #Video #Actress #Mike Nichols

June 2010

5 posts

Nick DeMartino To Retire After 20 Year Tour As AFI Technology Leader → blog.afi.com



LOS ANGELES, CA — (June 22, 2010). Nick DeMartino is retiring from his post as Senior Vice President for Media & Technology at the American Film Institute (AFI) on June 30,…

Jun 22, 2010
François Truffaut On Learning From Alfred Hitchcock

François Truffaut gives and example on how Alfred Hitchcock influenced his own work at an AFI Harold Lloyd Master Seminar.

Jun 21, 20101 note
#François Truffaut #alfred hitchcock #AFI #American Film Institute
Breaking Bad Creator Vince Gilligan at AFI

Jun 16, 20101 note
#breaking bad #Bryan Cranston #Vince Gilligan #AFI #American Film Institute
Mike Nichols: 38th Recipient Of The AFI Life Achievment Award → blog.afi.com



When AFI was founded in 1967, one of its purposes was to ensure that “great accomplishments of the past are recognized to the end that the masters of film may take their…

Jun 9, 20104 notes
Sigourney Weaver On Pixar & Disney's FANTASIA

Sigourney Weaver explains why she think Pixar is making the best animated Hollywood films today and also recalls her experience watching Walt Disney’s FANTASIA.

Jun 3, 20103 notes
#sigourney weaver #fantasia #aliens #alien #ghostbusters #sci fi #American Film Institute #animation #pixar #disney

May 2010

14 posts

Dennis Hopper On HOOSIERS

May 29, 20102 notes
#dennis hopper #AFI #Hoosiers #Academy Award #Oscar #American Film Institute
Alfred Hitchcock: Exposition Is A Pill That Must Be Sugar-Coated

Alfred Hitchcock at an AFI Seminar, 1971

May 26, 20108 notes
#alfred hitchcock #AFI #American Film Institute #Harold Lloyd Master Seminar
John Wayne Salutes James Cagney at AFI Life Achievement Award

John Wayne, 1974. 

May 26, 20101 note
#john wayne #james cagney #AFI #American Film Institute #life achievement award
AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival Returns For June → blog.afi.com



The AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival will take place June 21-27 at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD. In past years the festival has enjoyed…

May 20, 2010
May 20, 201028 notes
#map #paramount #studios #movies #AFI #American Film Institute #hollywood #buzzfeed
AFI's Top 10 Animated Movies  → buzzfeed.com

AFI’s list of the Top Ten Animated Feature Films from the 2007 TV Broadcast, AFI’s 10 Top 10.

May 18, 20103 notes
#AFI #american film institute #CBS #10 top 10 #animation #animated #movies #cinderells #snow white #shrek #toy story #fantasia #beauty and the beast #bambi #the lion king
Sundance Comedy From AFI Alumni Picked Up By Red Dragon → blog.afi.com



Congratulations to AFI Alumni Lindsay Stidham (W ‘05) and Drake Doreumus (D ‘05). Their comedy feature DOUCHEBAG, which was in competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival,…

May 18, 2010
William Friedkin on the Car Chase Scene In THE FRENCH CONNECTION

William Friedkin talks about shooting the gripping car chase scene from THE FRENCH CONNECTION.

May 11, 201033 notes
#William Friedkin #French Connection #Gene Hackman #car chase #AFI #American Film #AFI Silver Theatre
Eddie Izzard Salutes Sean Connery at AFI Life Achievement Award

May 10, 20104 notes
#eddie izzard #sean connery #james bond #AFI #American Film Institute
AFI Alums Nominated For Student Academy Awards → blog.afi.com



Congratulations to AFI Alums Zeke Hawkins & John Ford, each of whom have been nominated for Student Academy Awards. Both are nominated in the Narrative category,…
May 7, 2010
William Shatner Sings To George Lucas at AFI Life Achievement Award

May 6, 201015 notes
#AFI #American Film Institute #Star Wars #George Lucas #William Shatner #stormtroopers #chewbacca #han solo #luke skywalker #steven spielberg
Select Clips from AFI Life Achievement Award: A Salute To George Lucas

May the 4th be with you. Happy Star Wars Day:

May 4, 20101 note
#AFI, #star wars #george lucas #American Film Institute #carrie fisher #harrison ford #mark hamill #steven spielberg
AFI's Top 10 Sports Movies → buzzfeed.com

May 4, 20104 notes
#AFI #american film institute #AFI's Ten Top Ten #Sports Movies
Lynn Redgrave on Sophia Loren

Oscar-nominated Actress Lynn Redgrave talks about, and even impersonates, Sophia Loren.

May 3, 20101 note
#AFI #American Film Institute #100 years 100 stars #interview #Lynn Redgrave #Oscars #Shine #Gods and monsters #Sophia Loren #movies #actor #actress
Sean Astin On The Core Human Values Of THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy

Sean Astin talks about the timing of the theatrical release of THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING and how audiences reacted in the midst of the worldwide grieving process after 9/11. He also touches on how the lengthy filmmaking process provided perspective and a learning process for the filmmakers.

Apr 30, 20104 notes
#Lord of the Rings #Fellowship of the Ring #AFI #American Film Institute #Sean Astin #Samwise Gamgee #Frodo #The Two Towers #Peter Jackson #Fran Walsh

April 2010

25 posts

Quentin Tarantino: The Inspiration For Pulp Fiction

Apr 30, 201030 notes
#quentin tarantino #pulp fiction #AFI #american film institute #100years list
J.J. Abrams Speaks at TED About Mysteries

Apr 29, 20104 notes
#jj abrams #lost #star trek #steven spielberg #jaws
AFI Fest Presented By Audi – Festival Dates & Call For Entries → blog.afi.com

AFI FEST 2010 presented by Audi

ANNOUNCES 2010 FESTIVAL DATES AND CALL FOR ENTRIES

AFI FEST Renews Commitment to Community with Free Tickets

Los Angeles’ Longest…

Apr 27, 20102 notes
Play
Apr 26, 20103 notes
#Harold Ramis #AFI #American Film Institute #Wizard of Oz
Next page →
2010
  • January
  • February
  • March
  • April 25
  • May 14
  • June 5
  • July 8
  • August 3
  • September 4
  • October 2
  • November 5
  • December 4