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 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.

While there he collaborated with American physician Charles Claude Guthrie in work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs as well as the head, and Carrel was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for these efforts.

* 1968 – James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U. S. Marine.

An Andrei Sakharov prize is also to be awarded by the American Physical Society every second year from 2006, " to recognize outstanding leadership and / or achievements of scientists in upholding human rights ".

In 1901, Baltimore and McGraw were awarded an expansion franchise in the growing American League, but again the team was sacrificed in favor of a New York City franchise, as the team was transferred to New York in 1903.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

Eager to end the case without further scandal, Chaplin's lawyers agreed to a cash settlement of $ 600, 000 — the largest awarded by American courts at that time.

In 1958 he was awarded a grant from and was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

The first government commission ever awarded to African American artists including Beauford Delaney, Seabrook Powell and Vertis Hayes.

Alexander was awarded the First Gold Medal for Research by the American Institute of Architects in 1972.

In 2006, Brubeck was awarded the University of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal, the oldest and most prestigious honor given to American Catholics, during the University's commencement.

In 1975, Hawks was awarded an Honorary Academy Award as " a master American filmmaker whose creative efforts hold a distinguished place in world cinema " and, in 1942, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Sergeant York.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2003 was awarded to two American scientists: Roderick MacKinnon for his studies on the physico-chemical properties of ion channel structure and function, including x-ray crystallographic structure studies, and Peter Agre for his similar work on aquaporins.

In April 2006, Lynch was awarded the " National Chairman of Volunteers " Award for Volunteer Excellence by the American Red Cross, due to his leadership during the 2005 floods.

For his contribution to psychiatry, he was awarded a Kittay International Award in 1974 ( with Mogens Schou from Denmark ), and he was invited to be a Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists.

In 2004, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

He has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes including the Tswett Medal ( 1975 ), an American Chemical Society chromatography award ( 1980 ), the World Meteorological Organization Norbert Gerbier Prize ( 1988 ), the Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for the Environment ( 1990 ) and the Royal Geographical Society Discovery Lifetime award ( 2001 ).

He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the American Geographical Society in 1912, and its Daly Medal in 1924.

When Atlanta reneged, the American Football League awarded an expansion team franchise to lawyer Joseph Robbie and actor Danny Thomas for $ 7. 5 million.

* 1900 – American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.

However, a new professional team in the area did not surface again until August 1959, when Minneapolis businessmen Bill Boyer, H. P. Skoglund, and Max Winter were awarded a franchise in the new American Football League ( AFL ).

On November 16, 1959, Boston business executive Billy Sullivan was awarded the eighth and final franchise of the developing American Football League ( AFL ).

Both medals may also be worn in miniature form on a ribbon on the left chest, with a silver American Bald Eagle with spread wings on the ribbon ( or a golden American Bald Eagle for a medal awarded " With Distinction ").