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 American Registry Of Pathology operates as a cooperative enterprise in medical research and education between the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the civilian medical profession on a national and international basis, under such conditions as may be agreed upon between the National Research Council and The Surgeons General of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

The Symposium, which was jointly sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, the Instrument Society of America, and the National Bureau of Standards, attracted nearly one thousand registrants, including many from abroad.

He is a fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and a senior member of the Institute of Radio Engineers.

The American Institute of Interior Designers has published a recommended course for designers and a percentage layout of such a course.

The professional organizations such as American Institute of Interior Designers, National Society of Interior Designers, Home Fashions League and various trade associations, can and do aid greatly in this work.

The American Institute of Interior Designers is redecorating the White House library.

The American Institute of Decorators has acquired a rare complete set of sofas and chairs which are to be placed in the Executive Mansion's library.

The ASA became the United States of America Standards Institute or USASI and ultimately the American National Standards Institute.

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

The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

* 1975 – Adam Carson, American musician ( AFI )

The American Film Institute named it one of the best films ever made, putting it at the top of the list of AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Cheers, a list of what AFI considers to be the most inspirational American movies of all time.

The film also appeared in another AFI Top 100 list: it placed at 11th on AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list of the top American films.

In 1982, the American Film Institute honored Frank Capra by giving him their AFI Life Achievement Award.

In June 2008, AFI revealed its " Ten Top Ten "-the best ten films in ten " classic " American film genres-after polling over 1, 500 people from the creative community.

The score was ranked by the AFI as the second greatest American film score of all time.

* 1975 – Davey Havok, American singer ( AFI )

* 1973 – Jade Puget, American musician ( AFI )

In June 2008, AFI revealed its " Ten top Ten "— the best ten films in ten " classic " American film genres — after polling over 1, 500 people from the creative community.

** Jade Puget, American guitarist ( AFI )

AFI has also honored the film's stars, naming Katharine Hepburn the greatest American screen legend among females, and Spencer Tracy # 9 among males.

) In June 2008, the AFI revealed its " 10 Top 10 "— the best ten films in ten " classic " American film genres — after polling over 1, 500 people from the creative community.

In June 2008, the AFI revealed its " Ten top Ten " – the best ten films in ten " classic " American film genres – after polling over 1, 500 people from the creative community.

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 ).

In 1989 the American Film Institute gave Peck the AFI Life Achievement Award.

In June 2008, AFI revealed its " Ten top Ten "— the best ten films in ten " classic " American film genres — after polling over 1, 500 people from the creative community.

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.

* 1985 interview podcasts from AFI, the American Film Institute

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

In June 2008, AFI announced its " Ten top Ten "— the best ten films in ten " classic " American film genres — after polling over 1, 500 people from the creative community.