The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

The AFI Catalog of Feature Films, started in 1968, is an online database that preserves the history of American film in encyclopedic detail.

AFI FEST is the only film festival in the US to hold FIAPF ( Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films ) accreditation.

The AFI Digital Content Lab is a research and development facility for digital media located on the LA campus.

He is a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won an Academy Award, a Palme d ' Or, Grammy Award, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and DGA Awards.

The film is ranked eighth on the List of America's 100 Most Inspiring Movies compiled by the American Film Institute ( AFI ) in 2006.

AFI ( A Fire Inside ) is an American alternative rock band from Ukiah, California formed in 1991.

The release of Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes is also notable because AFI started to gather a larger following.

The band then recorded Black Sails in the Sunset ( 1999 ), a musical turning point which introduced AFI fans to a much darker sound, mixing the band's original hardcore roots with dark romantic influences ( a poem by Charles Baudelaire, " De profundis clamavi ," is present in the hidden track " Midnight Sun ") and an emphasis on a more somber atmosphere and lyrics.

Led by front man Davey Havok, AFI is acknowledged for introducing hardcore punk | hardcore, horror punk and elements of straight edge to a wider audience.

* Cat Ballou is the favorite film of comedy directors Bobby & Peter Farrelly, as stated in The AFI 100 Years, 100 Laughs television special.

" Girl's Not Grey " is a song by American rock band AFI.

" A Family Legacy ", is short film featuring Australian AFI award winning actor Nathaniel Dean.

It is responsible for producing Australia's premier film and television awards, the annual AFI Awards.

As Australia's foremost motion picture industry association, AFI promotes the Australian film and television industry and plays a central role in the way in which the Australian film industry is known and understood, both locally and internationally.

The AFI is affiliated with the Los Angeles Australian Film & Television Association.

The AFI Research Collection is a significant non-lending, specialist film and television industry resource.

Written with candour, insight and a thorough analysis of the context set by the film and television industry in Australia over five decades, it provokes readers with its central polemic, that the development of a healthy screen culture is essential to the production of a successful production industry, and that the AFI should be recognised for its vital contribution to Australian film culture over half a century.

Black Sails in the Sunset is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band AFI.

Alternative Press gave the album four-and-a-half out of five stars, commenting that " with new guitarist Jade Puget adding a sense of brooding, thespian eloquence to the disc's shadowy post-hardcore, AFI all but reinvented themselves ," and " With longer, deeper, richer, more complex compositions than they've ever attempted before, Black Sails tackles everything from brooding hardcore ... to shimmering balladry ..." The publication also went as far as to say that Black Sails is " their first epic.

It is the only song by AFI to contain lead vocals by Hunter Burgan, which can be heard during the chorus of the song.

However, the AFI retrospective compilation is often called ' The Weight of Words ' on online shopping sites.

The AFI Silver is a three-screen movie theater complex in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, just north of Washington, D. C. in the United States of America.

The AFI Silver is the result of a restoration project for the original Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, which was originally designed by movie palace architect John Eberson and constructed in 1938.

It includes audio commentary featuring director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson, Soul Searching in “ Five Easy Pieces ,” a 2009 video piece with Rafelson, BBStory, a 2009 documentary about the BBS era, with Rafelson, actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Ellen Burstyn, and directors Peter Bogdanovich and Henry Jaglom, among others, and audio excerpts from a 1976 AFI interview with Rafelson.

Programming at the AFI Silver Theatre consists of an eclectic mix of retrospectives, festivals and first-run features as well as community events and educational activities.

The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities recommended creating AFI “ to enrich and nurture the art of film in America ” with initial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation.

In addition to the Conservatory, AFI has a tuition-free program called the AFI Directing Workshop for Women that operates each spring and summer from the Los Angeles campus.

During his acceptance speech for the AFI award, he stressed his most important values:

Two years later, AFI released the list AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Passions honoring the most romantic films for the past 100 years, Harold and Maude ranked # 69.

For the role, Crowe won an Australian Film Institute ( AFI ) award for Best Actor, following up from his Best Supporting Actor award for Proof in 1991.

It won seven AFI Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Anthony LaPaglia and Best Actress for Kerry Armstrong.

In 2002, California's AFI signed to DreamWorks Records and changed its sound considerably for its successful major label debut Sing the Sorrow.

In 1991, Sherlock, Jr. was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ," and on June 14, 2000 the American Film Institute, as part of its AFI 100 Years ... series, ranked the film as # 62 in the list of the funniest films of all time ( AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs ).

At the AFI, he established contacts with people such as Jack Nicholson, longtime collaborator Jack Fisk, and agent Mike Medavoy, who procured for Malick freelance work revising scripts.

Gone with the Wind was awarded ten Academy Awards, a record that stood for years, and has been named by the American Film Institute ( AFI ) as number four among the top 100 American films of all time.

AFI has been hailed by numerous publications for contributing to the modern melodic hardcore and post-hardcore genres and revolutionizing goth punk ; in 2006 MTV executive Amy Doyle called the band " one of the most compelling live rock bands today.

While the meaning of the acronym " AFI " currently stems from the full title " A Fire Inside ," band members have stated that the name formerly originated from the titles " Asking for It " and " Anthems for Insubordinates.

AFI disbanded when its members attended different colleges, one of which was UC Berkeley where members of the band lived and practiced for a time in the basement of the Delta Chi fraternity house on Channing Way.

AFI previewed Crash Love on their MySpace page for two days starting September 22, 2009, seven days ahead of the official album release.

In January 2010, AFI released a teaser for the video of their new single " Beautiful Thieves ".