Standing on the soundstage where Fred Astaire once danced and Dorothy skipped down the yellow brick road, Morgan Freeman accepted the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. Clint Eastwood , Sidney Poitier , Helen Mirren , Samuel L. Jackson , Tim Robbins and Forest Whitaker were among the stars who feted Freeman during a ceremony Thursday at Sony Studios, former home of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Today Memphis-born and Delta-raised Hollywood royalty Morgan Freeman was honored last week with the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. The ceremony - featuring tributes from Clint Eastwood, Sidney Poitier, Helen Mirren, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Robbins and Forest Whitaker - airs at 8 p.m. on TV Land.
When takes home her Kennedy Center Honors award on Sunday, her biggest problem may be finding room for it on the mantelpiece. In the course of a relentlessly prolific five-decade career, the singer-actress-diva-of-all-trades already has won just about every artistic honor in existence: multiple Grammys and Academy Awards, five Emmys, eight Golden Globes, the Cable Ace and Peabody awards and the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.
LOS ANGELES -- The American Film Institute is honoring Morgan Freeman with its Life Achievement Award.
From Press-Telegram wire reports Sean Connery was named Thursday as the 34th recipient of the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, the AFI's highest honor for a career in film. The award will be presented to the Scottish actor at a tribute gala in Los Angeles on June 8, to be shown that month on the USA Network.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - George Lucas figures this is the ideal time to receive the American Film Institute's life-achievement award, now that he is getting out of the "Star Wars" business and embarking on a second career as an avant-garde filmmaker. One of Hollywood's highest honors, the award Thursday came as Lucas was bidding goodbye to his six-film sci-fi epic about the Skywalker clan, with the final chapter cruising to a $400 million- plus domestic haul.
The American Film Institute has selected director/writer Mike Nichols to receive its 38th annual AFI Life Achievement Award, Sir Howard Stringer, chair of the AFI Board of Trustees announced Sunday. The award, considered AFI's highest honor for a career in film, will be presented to Nichols at a gala tribute in Los Angeles next summer. The event will also be aired on TV Land Prime, according to AFI.
The University of New Orleans is sending a contingent to the American Film Institute's 34th Life Achievement Award Thursday featuring an honor for actor Sean Connery at the Kodak Theatre. Susan Krantz, dean of UNO's College of Liberal Arts; Provost Rick Barton; Professor J. Stephen Steve Hank, director of the UNO Film Program; Phillip Karnell, chairman of UNO's Department of Film, Theatre and Communication Arts; assistant professors Hamp Overton; Robert Racine; and artist-in-residence Michelle Benoit will fly to Los Angeles as special guests involved with the film program's semester-long relationship with AFI.
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