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Lillian Gish was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1984, aged 90, becoming the oldest recipient of the prize; Mel Brooks was the oldest male recipient, awarded at age 86 in 2013. Tom Hanks was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2002, becoming the youngest recipient of the prize at age 46 and Meryl Streep was the youngest female ...
Lillian Diana Gish [1] (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American actress. Her film-acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987. Gish was dubbed the "First Lady of the Screen" by Vanity Fair in 1927 [2] and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques. [3] In 1999, the American ...
[1] It is among the most prestigious and one of the richest prizes in the American arts. The 2024 award was for over $450,000. [2] The founders Dorothy Gish (1898–1968) and Lillian Gish (1893–1993) were sisters, famous as actresses from the silent era of film and mid-century theatre. About the prize, established in Lillian Gish's will, she ...
George Cooper Stevens Jr. (born April 3, 1932) is an American writer, playwright, director, and producer. He is the founder of the American Film Institute, creator of the AFI Life Achievement Award, and co-creator of the Kennedy Center Honors. He has also served as Co-Chairman of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
Stevens was the father of television and film writer-producer-director George Stevens, Jr., the founder of the American Film Institute (AFI). [5] George Jr. produced and directed the documentary about his father George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey in 1984 [ 5 ] and is the father of Stevens's grandson Michael Stevens (1966–2015), who was ...
We were inside the 2023 AFI Awards with everyone, from everything, all at once. Here are our favorite images from the night.
The American Film Institute has unveiled its list of the 10 best films and television programs of the year, a selection that reflects the rich diversity of storytelling across genres, budgets and ...
The Whales of August is a 1987 American drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson and adapted by David Berry from his play of the same name. It stars Bette Davis and Lillian Gish, the latter in her final film appearance, [3] as elderly sisters living on the Maine coast. The cast also features Vincent Price and Ann Sothern. It was the final film ...