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 American Film Institute operated the National Film Theatre in Washington D. C .' s Kennedy Center until 1998.

The American Film Institute was founded in 1967 as a national arts organization to preserve the legacy of American film heritage, educate the next generation of filmmakers and honor the artists and their work.

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* 1947 – André Weinfeld, French and American Film Director / Producer

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 1999, the American Film Institute named Lancaster 19th among the greatest male stars of all time.

The American Film Institute acknowledged the iconic status of the scene from that film in which he and Deborah Kerr make love on a Hawaiian beach amid the crashing waves.

In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Chaplin the 10th greatest male screen legend of all time.

Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation ; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine ; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film ; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd ; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

The film was considered for two of the American Film Institute's 100 series lists.

In August 2007 Newsweek reported that in April 1998 a dozen people from what it called " the denial machine " met at the American Petroleum Institute's Washington headquarters.

* 1999 – Ranked # 15 in the American Film Institute's " Greatest Legends " list.

Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) was listed number 97 on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies.

The film is ranked number 45 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Funniest Movies of all Time, and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1997 for being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

In 2000, the film was ranked 29th on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy movies in American cinema and it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

In 1974, Cagney received the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.

The film was ranked No. 80 on the American Film Institute's top 100 list of the greatest American films ever made and No. 69 as the most thrilling, but the controversy has not diminished.

In 2005, it was chosen as # 10 on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movie Quotes.

She is listed 25th among the American Film Institute's Greatest female stars.

In June 2008 Unforgiven was ranked as the fourth-best American western, behind Shane, High Noon, and The Searchers, in the American Film Institute's " AFI's 10 Top 10 " list.

At the age of 45, he became the youngest ever recipient of the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award on June 12, 2002.

She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's greatest stars of all time and was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s, earning around US $ 500, 000 per year ( more than five times the salary of the US President ).

He starred in four of the titles on the American Film Institute's list of " 100 Years ... 100 Laughs ": Adam's Rib, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Father of the Bride and Woman of the Year.

Luke was also on the ballot for the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Heroes and Villains On their list of the 100 Greatest Fictional Characters, Fandomania. com ranked Luke at number 14.

" The comedic exchange was at # 79 on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movie Quotes.

In 2006 this film ranked # 15 on the American Film Institute's list of best musicals.

Candy was in the audience for the American Film Institute's tribute to David Lean, director of Bridge on the River Kwai.

The film was placed # 64 on American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Thrills.

In 1999, Davis was placed second, after Katharine Hepburn, on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female stars of all time.