Nicole is the first Australian to receive the AFI Life Achievement award. We’ve had some recipients with roots in the U.K. — Alfred Hitchcock, Sean Connery and Elizabeth Taylor was a dual citizen.

A televised special of the gala, “The 50th AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Francis Ford Coppola,” will premiere on TNT with an encore airing on TCM at a later date.

The AFI Life Achievement Award was established by the Board of Directors of the American Film Institute on February 26, 1973 to honor a single individual for his or her lifetime contribution to ...

The Life Achievement Award is AFI’s highest esteem for a career in film. Coppola’s predecessors include Nicole Kidman, Julie Andrews, Denzel Washington, George Clooney, Diane Keaton and John ...

No less than seven, count ’em, seven past AFI Life Achievement Award laureates were not only on hand in the Dolby Theatre, they all got on stage to sing his praises.Pacino, Robert De Niro ...

The 49th AFI Life Achievement Award Gala also featured Matthew Libatique, ASC, LPS (AFI Class of 1992), this year’s Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal recipient.

Actor Mike Myers wears a cloak and mask in reference to the 1999 film “Eyes Wide Shut” during the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award tribute to Nicole Kidman, Saturday, April 27, 2024, at the ...

Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, right, accepts the 50th AFI Life Achievement Award from presenter George Lucas during a gala tribute to Coppola on Saturday, April 26, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in ...

Nicole Kidman‘s friends and collaborators will be in the building when she is honored at the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award Gala.. AFI shared that Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman, Naomi Watts and ...

Well Coppola finally on the 50th anniversary of the AFI Life Achievement Award dinners got the most prestigious one of all for movie makers, and having been to numerous of these AFI events over ...

The American Film Institute (AFI) presented the 50th AFI Life Achievement Award to Francis Ford Coppola on Saturday, April 26, at a Gala Tribute at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, surrounded by ...