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.

In 1969, the institute established the Center for Advanced Film Studies at Greystone, the Doheny Mansion in Beverly Hills, CA.

In December 2004, the Santa Fe Film Festival honored Alfonso Arau for his work in cinema.

* 2005: Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, nominated )

* 2011: BAFTA Children's Award-First Light Awards-Kids ' Vote for Film of the Decade ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, won )

Army of Darkness won the Saturn Award for Best Horror Film ( 1994 ).

Army of Darkness was nominated for the Grand Prize at Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival, and won the Golden Raven at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film in 1993.

The film also won the Critics ' Award at Fantasporto, and was nominated for the International Fantasy Film Award in the category of Best Film in 1993.

** won the Golden Palm at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards, and is ranked No. 6 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs list.

In 2012, his film Passion was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival.

Film critics have often noted De Palma's penchant for unusual camera angles and compositions throughout his career.

In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000 and voted for by industry professionals, Blackadder Goes Forth placed 16th.

Lancaster won the 1960 Academy Award for Best Actor, a Golden Globe Award, and the New York Film Critics Award for his performance in Elmer Gantry.

)" Together they produced the films Apache ( 1954 ), Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), Marty ( 1955 ) ( which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d ' Or award at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Kentuckian ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), The Bachelor Party ( 1956 ), Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ), ( 1959 ), Take a Giant Step ( 1959 ), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1960 ), and ( 1960 ).

In addition to his novels, Campbell also wrote a column for X Ray Magazine in 2001, an issue of the popular comic series The Hire, comic book adaptations of his Man With The Screaming Brain and most recently he wrote the introduction to Josh Becker's The Complete Guide To Low Budget Feature Film Making.

In order to promote the re-releases, Chaplin travelled to the US in 1972 for the first time in twenty years to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Lincoln Center Film Society and an Academy Honorary Award for " the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century ".

Six of Chaplin's films have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry: The Immigrant ( 1917 ), The Kid ( 1921 ), The Gold Rush ( 1925 ), City Lights ( 1931 ), Modern Times ( 1936 ), and The Great Dictator ( 1940 ).

The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ( Taiwan ) and three other Academy Awards, and was nominated for six other Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Rotterdam Film Festival, for example, does not charge an entry fee to submit work.

Film noir similarly embraces a variety of genres, from the gangster film to the police procedural to the gothic romance to the social problem picture — any example of which from the 1940s and 1950s, now seen as noir's classical era, was likely to be described as a " melodrama " at the time.

Film critic John Raeburn discusses an early Capra film, American Madness ( 1932 ), as an example of how he had mastered the movie medium and expressed a unique style:

Film speed is often a vexed issue among scholars and film buffs in the presentation of silents today, especially when it comes to DVD releases of restored films ; the 2002 restoration of Metropolis ( Germany, 1927 ) may be the most fiercely debated example.

A lesser-known example is Jérôme Savary's La fille du garde-barrière ( 1975 ), an homage to silent-era films that uses intertitles and blends comedy, drama, and explicit sex scenes ( which led to it being refused a cinema certificate by the British Board of Film Classification ).

* Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. ( a legal case partially relating to another example of an out of copyright adaption of a work still under copyright )

During the 1970s, Detour began to be seen as a prime example of " Film Noir ", and critics began to write about it at increasingly greater length.

In 2000, Shaft, widely considered a prime example of the blaxploitation genre, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

Film scores generally have quite varied string set-ups: for example, James Newton Howard's score for The Last Airbender featured 33 violins, 21 violas, 14 celli and 15 double basses, making it a total of 83 strings.

A variety of concerts, both rock, classical music, and jazz, as well as other cultural events take place each year ; for example, Oulu Music Video Festival – the host of the Air Guitar World Championships and Musixine Music Film Competition – in August, annual rock festival Qstock in July, the Oulu Music Festival in winter, the Oulunsalo Music Festival in summer, The Irish Festival of Oulu in October and the International Children's Film Festival in November.

* 1985-1990 in the Film series Back to The Future, references to the Atomic Age and uses of Nuclear Energy are broadly explored ; for example the use of Plutonium in the time machine, the concept of " Mr. Fusion " ( a futuristic small scale fusion reactor for domestic use that can use garbage as fuel ) and references to the common 1950s conceptions of the Atomic Age.

For example, many Queensland schools offer Film, Television and New Media, while Victorian schools offer VCE Media.

An example of a Film Studio is Warner Brothers.

For example, Tsai Ming-liang's Vive L ' Amour, which won the Golden Lion at the 1994 Venice Film Festival, portrays the isolation, despair, and love of young adults living in the upscale apartments of Taipei.

For example, Ngee Ann Polytechnic has engaged with Chapman University in the U. S. to provide a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Producing for graduates of the School's Film and Media Studies department.

For example, the film theory journal Film Quarterly has featured the show on its cover.

Recent initiatives, for example, include the newly renovated Asper Centre for Theatre and Film, a new western campus with two LEED Silver buildings has added significant capacity to campus and includes the state-of-the-art Richardson College for the Environment and Science Complex, a student and community daycare facility and a new student residence.

It is typical for Film noir to begin in medias res ; for example, a private detective will enter the plot already in progress.

Virtually all motion pictures produced in the United States adhered to the code, and similar censorship was common in other countries, for example an early version of the first lesbian vampire film Dracula's Daughter, a film described in The Celluloid Closet as presenting " homosexuality as a predatory weakness ", was rejected by the British Board of Film Censors in 1935, who said in part "... Dracula's Daughter would require half a dozen ... languages to adequately express its beastliness .".

Bill Warren has written that the film was “ the best and most significant science fiction movie of 1955 … remains a decent, competent example of any era ’ s science fiction output ..” In Phil Hardy ’ s The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction the film was described as “ a full-blooded space opera complete with interplanetary warfare and bug-eyed monsters … the film ’ s space operatics are given a dreamlike quality and a moral dimension that makes the dramatic situation far more interesting .” Danny Peary felt the film was " colorful, imaginative, gadget-laden sci-fi.

For example the Cannes Film Festival is the most prestigious in the world.

Arthur C. Pettit ( Images of the Mexican American in Fiction and Film, 1980 ) was equally clear: " Tortilla Flat stands as the clearest example in American literature of the Mexican as jolly savage ... his is the book that is most often cited as the prototypical Anglo novel about the Mexican American .. the novel contains characters varying little from the most negative Mexican stereotypes.

Literature Through Film: Realism, Magic, and the Art of Adaptation ( 2004 ) holds Praline up as an example of a " Sancho-like realist ".