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and preserving the art of film, television, and other
forms of the moving image.

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John Huston's Lifetime Award Speech

The AFI List of the Top 50 Stars of all Time

AFI Lifetime Achievement Award Winners

Each year, the American Film Institute gives their Lifetime Achievement Award to someone who's career has had a profound impact on the shaping of American film. It is considered the highest award anyone in the industry can receive. This is a complete list of the award winners.

1973 - John Ford 1974 - James Cagney 1975 - Orson Welles 1976 - William Wyler 1977 - Bette Davis 1978 - Henry Fonda 1979 - Alfred Hitchcock 1980 - James Stewart 1981 - Fred Astaire 1982 - Frank Capra 1983 - John Huston 1984 - Lillian Gish 1985 - Gene Kelly 1986 - Billy Wilder 1987 - Barbara Stanwyck 1988 - Jack Lemmon 1989 - Gregory Peck 1990 - Sir David Lean 1991 - Kirk Douglas 1992 - Sidney Poitier 1993 - Elizabeth Taylor 1994 - Jack Nicholson 1995 - Steven Spielberg 1996 - Clint Eastwood 1997 - Martin Scorsese 1998 - Robert Wise 1999 - Dustin Hoffman

100 Years, 100 Movies In 1998, the American Film Institute polled various public figures such as actors, directors, film critics and Presidents, to come up with this much-debated list of the Greatest Films of All Time. Citizen Kane - 1941 Casablanca - 1942 The Godfather - 1972 Gone With the Wind - 1939 Lawrence of Arabia - 1962 The Wizard of Oz - 1939 The Graduate - 1967 On the Waterfront - 1954 Schindler's List - 1993 Singin' In the Rain - 1952 It's a Wonderful Life - 1946 Sunset Boulevard - 1950 The Bridge on the River Kwai - 1957 Some Like It Hot - 1959 Star Wars - 1977 All About Eve - 1950 The African Queen - 1951 Psycho - 1960 Chinatown - 1974 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1975 The Grapes of Wrath - 1940 2001:A Space Odyssey - 1968 The Maltese Falcon - 1941 Raging Bull - 1980 E.T. -- the Extra-Terrestrial - 1982 Dr. Strangelove - 1964 Bonnie and Clyde - 1967 Apocalypse Now - 1979 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - 1939 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - 1948 Annie Hall - 1977 The Godfather II - 1974 High Noon - 1952 To Kill a Mockingbird - 1962 It Happened One Night - 1934 Midnight Cowboy - 1969 The Best Years of Our Lives - 1946 Double Indemnity - 1944 Doctor Zhivago - 1965 North by Northwest - 1959 West Side Story - 1961 Rear Window - 1954 King Kong - 1933 The Birth of a Nation - 1915 A Streetcar Named Desire - 1951 A Clockwork Orange - 1971 Taxi Driver - 1976 Jaws - 1975 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - 1937 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - 1969 The Philadelphia Story - 1940 From Here to Eternity - 1953 Amadeus - 1984 All Quiet on the Western Front - 1930 The Sound of Music - 1965 M*A*S*H - 1970 The Third Man - 1949 Fantasia - 1940 Rebel Without a Cause - 1955 Raiders of the Lost Ark - 1981 Vertigo - 1958 Tootsie - 1982 Stagecoach - 1939 Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 1977 The Silence of the Lambs - 1991 Network - 1976 The Manchurian Candidate - 1962 An American in Paris - 1951 Shane - 1953 The French Connection - 1971 Forrest Gump - 1994 Ben-Hur - 1959 Wuthering Heights - 1939 The Gold Rush - 1925 Dances With Wolves - 1990 City Lights - 1931 American Graffiti - 1973 Rocky - 1976 The Deer Hunter - 1978 The Wild Bunch - 1969 Modern Times - 1936 Giant - 1956 Platoon 1986 Fargo - 1996 Duck Soup - 1933 Mutiny on the Bounty - 1935 Frankenstein - 1931 Easy Rider - 1969 Patton - 1970 The Jazz Singer - 1927 My Fair Lady - 1964 A Place in the Sun - 1951 The Apartment - 1960 GoodFellas - 1990 Pulp Fiction - 1994 The Searchers - 1956 Bringing Up Baby - 1938 Unforgiven - 1992 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - 1967 Yankee Doodle Dandy - 1942

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