The American Film Institute’s AFI Awards, held on Friday, once again proved to be one of the most glamorous events of awards season.
George Clooney, Emma Stone, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ethan Hawke, Wunmi Mosaku and Rhea Seehorn were among the earliest to arrive at the red carpet luncheon at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills.
The guest list also included Laura Dern, Adam Sandler, Mark Ruffalo, Stellan Skarsgard, Jafar Panahi, Adam Scott, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, and Apple’s Tim Cook.
This year’s award winners include Avatar: Fire and Ash, Bugonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Jay Kelly, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Train Dreams and Wicked: For Good.
On the television side, awards included “Adolescence,” “Andor,” “Death by Lightning,” “The Diplomat,” “The Lowdown,” “The Pit,” “Pluribus,” “Severance,” “The Studio,” and “Tusk.”
The special award went to “It Was Just an Accident.”
Shortly after the winners were announced in December, Variety’s Clayton Davis wrote in his Awards Circuit column, “The AFI Awards remain one of the season’s most meaningful bellwethers. Over the past decade, AFI’s top 10 films have consistently It coincides with the Academy Award for Best Picture, which typically coincides with the seven or eight films that end up nominated. While AFI’s selections don’t guarantee Oscar momentum, mistakes often portend a steeper slope ahead.”
This year’s jurors included Lily Gladstone, Lauren LeFranc, Patton Oswalt and Thomas Schramm, with one person in each of the film and television categories. scholars Mark Harris and Leonard Martin, and representatives from Syracuse University, the University of Southern California, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Critics Anne Hornaday, Janet Maslin and Peter Travers. and a member of the AFI Board of Directors. The panel discussion was chaired by Janine Basinger, a member of the AFI Board of Directors, Chair Emeritus of Wesleyan University and founder of the School of Film Studies, and Richard Frank, Vice Chair of the AFI Board of Directors, former Chairman of Walt Disney Television and President of Walt Disney Studios.
See photos from the AFI Awards below.
