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If you thought season one of Hulu’s limited series Nine Perfect Strangers gave a new definition of locked up, there’s going to be plenty of cabin fever come season 2. We caught up with the series star and EP Nicole Kidman last night on the red carpet for her AFI Life Achievement Award to ask how the…

Morgan Freeman was among the stars who paid tribute to Nicole Kidman when the actress received the AFI Life Achievement Award. Freeman parodied Kidman’s viral AMC spot, which has been spoofed by many over the years. RELATED: AFI Life Achievement Award Honors Nicole Kidman Red Carpet Photos: Keith…

Nicole Kidman is the 2024 AFI Life Achievement Award honoree for her film career. "Nicole Kidman embodies the glamour and romance of Hollywood past – a true screen icon – but she is also a risk taker – and so each performance is something new and something profound," said Bob Gazzale, AFI President & CEO. "And like…

The American Film Institute (AFI) Board of Trustees will bestow his 49th AFI Life Achievement Award on Oscar winner Nicole Kidman at their June 10, 2023 ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Kidman is the first Australian actor to receive this honor. "Nicole Kidman has enchanted audiences for…

“Welcome to the 48th, 49th, and 50th AFI Life Achievement Awards,” American Film Institute president and CEO Bob Gazzale said as he began his welcoming remarks for Thursday night’s long-awaited and pandemic-delayed tribute to Julie Andrews, the 2022 honoree at a ceremony originally set to take place in the spring of…

The American Film Institute’s board of trustees said Friday that Julie Andrews will receive the 48th AFI Life Achievement Award next year. The award will be presented April 25, 2020 at a gala in Los Angeles. Andrews, the star of screen and stage, won the Best Actress Oscar for Mary Poppins in her feature film debut…

Perhaps it is telling us something about the history of the film industry that Denzel Washington, last night’s highly deserving honoree for the 47th AFI Life Achievement Award, is only the third African American to ever receive it, and before Morgan Freeman was honored in 2011, Sidney Poitier in 1992 was the…

The American Film Institute said this morning that Denzel Washington will receive the 47th AFI Life Achievement Award. The honor will be presented to the two-time Oscar winner on June 6, 2019 at the AFI’s annual gala tribute. “Denzel Washington is an American icon,” said Howard Stringer, chair of the AFI Board of…

Presenter of the  46th Annual  American Film Institute Life Achievement Award Shirley MacLaine  told recipient George Clooney on Thursday night at the Dolby Theatre gala that ,yes, maybe he was too young to get a “lifetime achievement award” but that she observed he was a very “old soul”  so it was okay. As someone…

Julia Roberts, who has starred alongside George Clooney in big movies and starred for him as a director and producer, will present Clooney with the AFI Life Achievement Award when it is bestowed June 7 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Clooney was selected in October as the recipient of the 46th annual AFI Life…

George Clooney has been selected as the recipient of the 46th annual AFI Life Achievement Award in a ceremony to be held on June 7, 2018.  Clooney , a two time Oscar winner and one of only two people (along with Walt Disney)  to be nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories, was selected for his…

It was quite a night at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood as Diane Keaton became the 45th recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award. It was also the most star-studded of these evenings I have witnessed in a long time, maybe since Mike Nichols in 2010. Keaton knows how to bring them in and just about everyone came to…