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2018 IMPACT REPORT 2019 The American Film Institute champions the moving image as an art form. | We believe in the revolutionary EDUCATE INSPIRE power of visual storytelling to share perspectives, inspire empathy and drive culture forward.

1 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE –IMPACT REPORT A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT & CEO TABLE OF CONTENTS

We all have a story to tell. AFI Conservatory ...... 5

This simple yet powerful idea is one AFI believes passionately. Whether it is a story of triumph or AFI Alumni And Honorary Degrees ...... 11 trial, hope or despair, AFI is dedicated to ensuring that great stories bring audiences together — and that the moving image reflects the diverse perspectives of our nation and world. AFI Directing Workshop For Women ...... 19

And so, throughout the past year we championed talented storytellers from around the globe, AFI Cinematography Intensive For Women...... 21 helping their stories soar across screens of all sizes. AFI-supported artists took our breath away — and made us leap to our feet with pride at their monumental achievements. Young ...... 23

Just as importantly, people from many backgrounds joined together around the glow AFI FEST Presented By Audi ...... 25 of these tales well told, becoming one audience at AFI festivals, tributes and showcases, and proving once again how the moving image unites us like few other art forms. AFI DOCS ...... 31

We want to acknowledge the friends and supporters who made this work over the past year Meet The Press Film Festival With AFI ...... 37 possible. It is only through AFI members, donors and, of course, its steadfast Board of Trustees that AFI will continue succeeding at the highest level of the art form — and for this we are AFI Catalog Of Feature Films...... 39 enduringly grateful.

AFI Archive ...... 43 Whether you are new to the Institute or a friend of many years, I hope you sit back, relax and enjoy the following highlights of the year. AFI Life Achievement Award ...... 49 This is the story of AFI. AFI AWARDS ...... 53

AFI Silver Theatre And Cultural Center ...... 57

Financials ...... 63

Bob Gazzale Board Of Trustees ...... 65 President & CEO Donor Lists ...... 67 AFI CONSERVATORY

AFI’s world-renowned narrative filmmaker training program offers a two-year MFA in six filmmaking disciplines: Cinematography, Directing, Editing, Producing, Production Design and Screenwriting.

5 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE – IMPACT REPORT AFI CONSERVATORY 6 THE AFI CONSERVATORY IS DEDICATED TO CREATING A VIBRANT, INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY FOR STORYTELLERS.

With talent, imagination and drive, (Directing) and Academy Award®- aspiring filmmakers of all backgrounds nominated producer Lianne Halfon and perspectives find a home at AFI — (Producing). Other highly acclaimed and the skills they need to excel at the new members of the faculty who are highest level of the art form. helping nurture the next generation of % storytellers include Chinonye Chukwu, In the 2018–2019 academic year, AFI director/writer of Sundance 2019 Grand 49 welcomed new leadership to Campus, Jury Prize winner CLEMENCY, and female Fellows including the appointment of Dean Franklin Leonard, founder of The Black Susan Ruskin. A seasoned producer List – ’s annual rundown of and an experienced academic, Ruskin the best unproduced screenplays. is a bold and innovative leader. The Conservatory also welcomed two new Discipline heads: accomplished filmmaker and educator Adam Salky % “ In a world where moving 45 images are the fabric of domestic Fellows of color society, AFI’s role as a champion of exceptional storytellers is more vital than ever.” – AFI Conservatory Dean Susan Ruskin 47% international Fellows (2017-2019)

7 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE – IMPACT REPORT AFI CONSERVATORY 8 YOUR BEST WORK STARTS HERE.

The AFI Conservatory is a training “I was afforded a privilege I never ground for trailblazers. Each year, gifted, thought I would be able to get,” he said, aspiring filmmakers turn to AFI to help “to thank [], as a transform their dreams into reality, such black filmmaker, for all the barriers he as current AFI Fellow Omar Kamara. had knocked down and the coursing, pure inspiration he had provided and In early 2018, Omar wrote to the AFI still provides for me.” Conservatory seeking to pursue “the audacity of [his] dreams” by studying AFI prides itself on supporting directing at the world-renowned film and championing emerging artists, school. The son of immigrants from such as Omar, and giving them the Sierra Leone, Omar worried about tools, training and confidence needed disappointing his father by following his to succeed. life-long passion of becoming a director. However, his love for storytelling was undeniable, as was his desire to make movies that reflect authentic, underrepresented voices. Omar started “ It’s not about at AFI and just a few months later met AFI Life Achievement Award recipient succumbing to fear. OTHER MASTERS WHO HAVE VISITED CAMPUS Denzel Washington during an on- campus seminar exclusively for Fellows. Ed Zwick*/TRIAL BY FIRE Catherine Hardwicke/MISS BALA It is about diving Sam Esmail*/HOMECOMING Debra Granik/LEAVE NO TRACE , /FIRST MAN Nahnatchka Kahn/ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE headfirst into your Karyn Kusama/DESTROYER Lee Chang-dong/BURNING Tamara Jenkins/PRIVATE LIFE Hirokazu Kore-eda/SHOPLIFTERS Steve McQueen/WIDOWS */A STAR IS BORN purpose.” */ Autumn Durald*/TEEN SPIRIT – Omar Kamara /GREEN BOOK */ AFI Conservatory Second Year Fellow /IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK *AFI Conservatory Alumni

9 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE –IMPACT REPORT AFI CONSERVATORY 10 THE AFI CONSERVATORY HONORARY DEGREES

During the 2019 AFI Conservatory Even on the hardest Commencement ceremony at the historic “ TCL Chinese Theatre, AFI proudly days, we are so bestowed Honorary Degrees upon two fortunate to be master filmmakers — Paul Schrader (AFI Class of 1969, director of storytellers. As I Academy Award®-nominated FIRST look out on this REFORMED and screenwriter of , RAGING BULL, amazing group of THE LAST TEMPTATION OF filmmakers beginning CHRIST and BRINGING OUT your journey, I feel THE DEAD) and (AFI Directing Workshop for Women inspired and hopeful ® alumna and Emmy -nominated and excited to see director of and ). Glatter and Schrader were both what unique and recognized for their contributions to the diverse stories you are art of the moving image, and the two shared words of wisdom and advice with compelled to tell.” the graduating class of Fellows. – Lesli Linka Glatter

11 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ––IMPACT IMPACT REPORTREPORT AFI ALUMNI AND HONORARYAFI CONSERVATORY DEGREES 12 FRANKLIN J. SCHAFFNER ALUMNI MEDAL

AFI’s salute to alumni excellence, The award means that the Franklin J. Schaffner Medal, was “ awarded to trailblazing director Melina we want new voices, Matsoukas who helmed QUEEN & new stories, and that SLIM, INSECURE, MASTER OF NONE and Beyoncé’s “Formation.” people are valuing Matsoukas is a two-time Grammy®- those stories. I hope winning director and steadfast mentor it will inspire and to aspiring female filmmakers. Beyoncé Knowles surprised Matsoukas and show black boys and presented her with the Schaffner Medal that they can at the 47th AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute honoring Denzel Washington. achieve greatness.”

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13 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE –IMPACT– IMPACT REPORTREPORT AFI ALUMNI AND HONORARYAFI CONSERVATORY DEGREES 14 AFI CONSERVATORY ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENTS

For 50 years, the Conservatory’s reputation has been built by and reflected in the excellence of AFI’s alumni. Recent graduates have already received accolades for their work completed at AFI, including sweeping the narrative category at this year’s Student ® (Omer Ben-Shachar, Asher Jelinsky and Hao Zheng, left to right).

ASC Student Heritage Award recipient Lucas Dziedzic American Society of Cinematographers

Gold Medal Winner, 2019 ® Best Live Action Winner, 2019 BAFTA Student Film Awards Asher Jelinsky

BAFTA-GSA Commissioning Grant recipient, 2019 BAFTA Student Film Awards Lola Blanche Higgins

Television Academy 2019 Student Academy Awards® 39th College Television Awards 5 3 5 finalists medals nominations

15 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ––IMPACT IMPACT REPORTREPORT AFI ALUMNI AND HONORARYAFI CONSERVATORY DEGREES 16 EMMYS

70th Primetime Emmy® Awards 22 2 nominations wins

PEABODYS

2018 Peabody Awards 2 1 nominations win AFI CONSERVATORY

LASTING This past year, AFI Alumni have once again been honored on the national stage and by their esteemed colleagues for their significant IMPACT creative contributions to film and television. OSCARS Honorary Oscar® awarded to Robert Richardson – ASC Lifetime Achievement Award recipient ®

At the 2019 , the Academy of Motion After graduating from AFI, Robert Richardson (AFI Class Pictures Arts and Sciences presented David Lynch (AFI of 1979) made his debut as a feature cinematographer Class of 1970) with an honorary Oscar®, celebrating an on ’s PLATOON. This year, the American acclaimed career that started in the halls of AFI. Society of Cinematographers honored Richardson for 3 his impressive body of work, which includes the Oscar®- nominations winning films JFK and THE AVIATOR.

17 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE –IMPACT– IMPACT REPORTREPORT AFI ALUMNI AND HONORARYAFI CONSERVATORY DEGREES 18 BOLD. DECLARATIVE. WORK.

2019 has been a banner year for episode of the critically acclaimed HBO Directing Workshop for Women (DWW) series EUPHORIA. alumna Pippa Bianco. In January, Bianco also actively supports a film Variety named Bianco one of the “10 community not only welcoming to Directors to Watch for 2019.” She has women, but also created by them. been actively making films since she In May 2019 she delivered an graduated from the program in 2014 inspiring keynote speech at the DWW and recently adapted her DWW short Showcase to this year’s graduating SHARE, which won the Cinéfondation class of participants at the Academy prize at Cannes, into a feature. The of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences’ film had its world premiere at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. She told the 2019 where audience, “I think acknowledging the Bianco was awarded a screenwriting structural inequalities filmmakers face, prize. The film, which was produced especially in your lower moments, is and financed by A24, was acquired by vitally important, as is creating HBO in a reported seven-figure deal. programs like this one to address Also in the past year, Bianco shot an institutional change.”

1979 2019 AFI “The program gave me the framework % % and the impetus to DIRECTING finally do something .5 16 Women in the DGA I’d been intending to Women in the DGA do for a long time, WORKSHOP and an incredible network of support 2018 FOR WOMEN and resources.” AFI’s unique filmmaker training program started in – DWW alumna Pippa Bianco % 1974 aims to increase the number of women working % professionally at the highest creative levels in film and TV. 50 350 of 2018 graduates total alumnae Womenhave directed in the DGA an episode of tv

19 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE – IMPACT REPORT AFI DIRECTING WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN 20 “The AFI women’s cinematography intensive workshop was honestly one of the most incredible experiences I have ever had while learning. This is AFI an experience I will never forget, and thank you for the confidence you all CINEMATOGRAPHY have instilled in me.”

INTENSIVE FOR –Rochelle Brown, 2019 AFI CIW participant WOMEN

Launched in 2018, the annual with 19 participants taking part in AFI Cinematography Intensive production workshops, discussions for Women is a four-day, tuition- and screenings of the work of free workshop designed for pioneering female cinematographers. women early in their journey as Upon completion, participants cinematographers, with a goal to receive a certificate as well as the increase the number of women support, confidence and resources working in cinematography. The needed as they enter the next phase second edition of this landmark of their careers. program took place in June 2019

2016–2018 3% Women cinematographers in top live-action films

19 4 women days

21 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ––IMPACT IMPACT REPORTREPORT AFI CINEMATOGRAPHY INTENSIVEAFI CONSERVATORY FOR WOMEN 22 “Young Women in Film has inspired me to further pursue a profession in film. It has taught me all the crucial steps to make a film. I was also able to work with other girls who have the same passion.”

–Young Women in Film 2019 Participant

YOUNG WOMEN IN FILM

In 2019, the AFI Conservatory, in Synergy Quantum Academy High partnership with the Will & Jada Smith School and ICEF (Inner City Education Family Foundation, launched the Foundation) in . During second edition of Young Women in their training, the participants worked Film, a program that allows access together in teams to create six short and opportunity for diverse voices. films, which premiered on the AFI The annual program is an eight-week campus to an audience of staff, friends, intensive held on the AFI Campus family and their peers. The films are for promising female students from available to view on AFI.com. Immaculate Heart High School, 45 3 6 Young Women LA-based schools short films

23 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE – YEARIMPACT IN REPORT REVIEW YOUNG WOMEN IN FILM 24 AFI’s annual showcase of the best films from across the globe, this world-class event captivates audiences in Los Angeles with an eclectic and innovative slate of AFI FEST screenings, panels and conversations. PRESENTED BY AUDI

25 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE – IMPACT REPORT AFI FEST PRESENTED BY AUDI 26 AFI FEST: THE BEST IN WORLD CINEMA

Over eight exciting days in November 2018, AFI FEST presented by Audi presented the best in film from both 134 emerging voices and established masters. Films screened from 52 AFI Conservatory Film lovers attended programs in 45 Countries alumni featured sections that included Galas, Special Screenings, World Cinema, New Auteurs, Midnight, Cinema’s Legacy and Shorts, all which took place at % historic venues, such as the TCL Chinese Theatre, the Egyptian Theatre and the 5 48 World Premieres Films directed Hollywood Roosevelt. Acclaimed films by Women screened at the festival included ROMA, BIRD BOX, , ON THE BASIS OF SEX and GREEN BOOK, which would go on to win Best Picture at the 91st Academy Awards®.

27 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ––IMPACT IMPACT REPORTREPORT AFI FEST PRESENTEDAFI CONSERVATORY BY AUDI 28 AFI FEST: TRIBUTES AND CONVERSATIONS

AFI FEST audiences were treated to the Disney film’s release. Other panelists several in-person conversations, such included Melissa McCarthy and as the thrilling on-stage talk with film Natalie Portman who spoke about the legend , who spoke process of filmmaking and the evolution about her career and screened her of their careers. latest film DESTROYER in front The festival’s Doc Roundtable featured of a rapt audience at the historic a panel of distinguished directors TCL Chinese Theatre. from the year’s most talked-about and At his discussion, Oscar®-nominated acclaimed documentaries, and the Indie filmmaker Rob Marshall provided Contenders Roundtable provided a AFI FEST audience members with an diverse panel of artists who have done exclusive preview of standout work in indie film. RETURNS, more than a month before “ That time between action and cut is still extraordinary to me.”

– Nicole Kidman at her AFI FEST Tribute

29 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ––IMPACT IMPACT REPORTREPORT AFI FEST PRESENTEDAFI CONSERVATORY BY AUDI 30 AFI DOCS “The nation’s leading documentary film festival.”

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31 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE – IMPACT REPORT AFI DOCS 32 YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP

Movies bring us together. In the glow of FOR EQUALITY. The documentary a darkened theater, a well-told story can features the inspirational true story of inspire empathy and understanding and Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal help create a better world. Justice Initiative, an organization dedicated to bringing impartiality and With support from presenting sponsor equality to the American criminal AT&T, AFI DOCS continued justice system. championing this ideal in 2019, connecting our nation’s leaders with Across five days of intimate screenings leading documentary filmmakers in and conversations, the festival united the heart of Washington, DC. AFI artists, policymakers and the public DOCS 2019 opened on the same day through the power of documentary as Juneteenth, the oldest nationally storytelling. AFI DOCS also celebrated commemoration of the honored Oscar®-winning filmmaker ending of slavery in the United Freida Lee Mock, who for more than States, with the world premiere of the three decades has been one of America’s revelatory HBO film TRUE JUSTICE: greatest cinematic biographers, at the Storytellers, which is BRYAN STEVENSON’S FIGHT 2019 Charles Guggenheim Symposium. “ why a film festival is so important, should try to think about being more 72 6 48% courageous, and our Films screened from World Premieres Films directed willingness to engage on by Women 19 Countries these topics.”

– Bryan Stevenson at AFI DOCS on telling more stories about racial inequality

33 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE –IMPACT REPORT AFI CONSERVATORYAFI DOCS 34 THE issue-driven5 films selected for STORY impact campaigns DOESN’T END filmmaker8 training AT THE sessions hosted CREDITS AFI DOCS IMPACT LAB AND FORUM

10documentary filmmakers Long after the festival curtain closes, storytellers in how to raise both greater platform by which to tell the trained by the lab in AFI nurtures documentary films grassroots and high-level policymaker story of how American public media grassroots engagement and with the potential to change lives. At support of critical causes. Designed to has shaped documentary filmmaking grasstops advocacy the 2019 festival, filmmakers behind empower and elevate filmmakers with and continues to contribute to its five issue-driven documentaries unique voices and films that highlight artistic vitality today. With CPB’s (17 BLOCKS, BORDER SOUTH, incredible stories of people who are support, AFI continued its efforts to GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH, making a difference in the world, the support nonfiction storytellers at the A WOMAN’S WORK: THE NFL’S Lab helps creatives generate broader AFI DOCS Forum and inaugurated a CHEERLEADER PROBLEM and social impact and political change day-long Localism Works Convening ST. LOUIS ) took part through the power of story. of regional filmmaking communities in the AFI DOCS Impact Lab. to share best practices and forge In 2019, AFI expanded its long-term deeper connections. A partnership with Raben Impact partnership with the Corporation for Entertainment, this intensive two- Public Broadcasting (CPB) to launch and-a-half-day workshop trains new festival programs offering a 15confirmed meetings between filmmakers and Capitol Hill officials

35 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE – IMPACT REPORT AFI CONSERVATORYAFI DOCS 36 MEET THE PRESS FILM FESTIVAL WITH AFI

The second installment of the Meet the Press Film Festival in Collaboration with AFI focused on issues surrounding the midterm elections. The short documentaries in the festival featured topics such as veterans, climate change, voting rights, guns, religion, immigration and poverty. Panels and discussions about these timely topics were moderated by NBC news reporters, including Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell and Jacob Soboroff.

23 3 Films World Premieres CREDIT: WILLIAM B. PLOWMAN /NBC

37 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE –IMPACT– IMPACT REPORTREPORT MEET THE PRESS FILMAFI FESTIVAL CONSERVATORY WITH AFI 38 AFI CATALOG OF FEATURE FILMS

Launched in 1968, the AFI Catalog of Feature Films was the world’s first database of American film, and today it continues to be the premier document of record for experts and neophytes alike. Its uniquely extensive collection of scholarly information covers the first 100 years of American film (1893-1993).

39 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE – IMPACT REPORT AFI CATALOG OF FEATURE FILMS 40 A NEW VOICE FOR THE SILENT ERA FEMALE PIONEERS

Women They Talk About New Research

In 2019, the AFI Catalog was awarded Catalog records at AFI.com will include a prestigious $350,000 grant from the new research on movies by the following National Endowment for the Humanities filmmakers: as well as a grant from the esteemed • Hettie Gray Baker Lovell Foundation that support an • Alice Guy Blaché unprecedented gender parity initiative • Grace Cunard to authenticate the true story of women’s • Esther Eng contributions to the American film • Gene Gauntier industry. The project, named “Women • Zora Neale Hurston They Talk About” after a lost 1928 film, • Osa Johnson gives a new voice to the silent era female • Frances Marion pioneers who have been silenced in the • Alla Nazimova historical narrative. A combination of • Ida May Park academic research, sophisticated data • Blanche Sewell analytics and extensive dissemination • Eve Unsell It takes an organization will allow AFI to produce interactive, • Lois Weber “ visual learning tools that will engender like AFI to pull new conversations about inclusion in information together our world. and make it available. Women They Talk About 2,500 will be the first dataset of films documented in the AFI its kind in any industry.” Catalog in scholarly detail during fiscal year 2018-2019 – Karen Ward Mahar Author of Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood

41 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE –IMPACT REPORT AFI CATALOG OFAFI FEATURE CONSERVATORY FILMS 42 42 A still from NEW YORK, NEW YORK from the Scorsese Papers Collection. AFI DIGITAL PRESERVATION The AFI Archive collects and Since 1969, AFI has captured rare At the AFI Collection at the Library preserves the heritage of the moving recordings of campus interviews, of Congress, 60,000 films from the image with conversations, oral seminars and testimonials with first half-century of the art form have histories, scripts, ephemera and much master storytellers in film and been preserved for future generations. more housed on the AFI Campus. television in the AFI Archive.

43 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE –IMPACT REPORT AFI ARCHIVE 44 RESTORING WEDNESDAY

When AFI found a damaged print of the lost AFI Conservatory thesis film WEDNESDAY (1974) starring Jack “ It comes to Lemmon, there was only one thing to do: restore this rarely seen work back life on screen BEFORE to its original brilliance. Through the help of AFI members who donated the funds to make the restoration possible again. It’s so and FotoKem, the lab that spent weeks bringing it back to life, this piece of film history has now been successfully alive now.” preserved for future generations. – Film restorer Andrew Oran, FOTOKEM

$26,000 ● Funds raised from AFI Members to restore WEDNESDAY

AFTER 45 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE – YEAR IN REVIEW AFI ARCHIVE 46 INTERVIEWS WITH THE MASTERS

In 2018–2019, AFI digitized and preserved interviews and conversations with master filmmakers including:

• Sally Field, actress, NORMA RAE (1979) • , director, THE HURT LOCKER (2008) • Carrie Fisher, actress, WARS series (1977–2015) • Edith Head, costume designer, ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) • , actress and 42nd AFI Life Achievement Award recipient • Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, directors, CAPTAIN MARVEL (2019) • , actor and 28th AFI Life Achievement Award recipient • , director, (2017) • , actor and 27th AFI Life Achievement Award recipient • Alfonso Cuarón, director, GRAVITY (2013)

• , actor, THE LION KING • Jack Lemmon, actor, SOME LIKE IT HOT (1994) (1959)

• , director, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN • Lesli Linka Glatter, director, HOMELAND (2005) (2011–2020)

• Mary Tyler Moore, actress, THE MARY • James Cagney, actor, YANKEE DOODLE TYLER MOORE SHOW (1970–1977) DANDY (1942)

• , actress, THE HELP (2011)

• Robin Williams, actor, MRS. DOUBTFIRE (1993) 635 32 Million Elements Digitized views of Archive video on AFI YouTube Channel

Director Ang Lee (BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, 2005) at AFI FEST

47 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE –IMPACT REPORT AFI CONSERVATORYAFI ARCHIVE 48 AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD America’s highest honor for a career in film, this award is bestowed upon an artist whose career has greatly enriched American culture.

49 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE – IMPACT REPORT AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 50 DENZEL

On June 6, 2019, the film and television community came together to honor an American icon — Denzel Washington. Friends, collaborators and generations inspired by Washington, gathered together to present Washington with the 47th AFI Life Achievement Award to celebrate his contributions to the motion picture and television industry, securing this beloved storyteller’s rightful place as one of Hollywood’s greatest artists.

There is no BLACK “ PANTHER without Denzel Washington… my whole cast, that generation, stands on your shoulders.”

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51 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ––IMPACT IMPACT REPORTREPORT AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENTAFI CONSERVATORY AWARD 52 AFI Honoring the year’s most outstanding films and TV series, AFI AWARDS is the only national program that honors creative teams as a whole — both in front of and AWARDS behind the camera. Director (BLACK PANTHER, 2018) at the 19th Annual AFI Awards

53 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE – IMPACT REPORT AFI AWARDS 54 A YEAR OF EXCELLENCE At its heart, the moving image is a deeply collaborative art form. AFI AWARDS is a of the many voices that work in unison to tell outstanding stories in film and television. Award selections are made through AFI’s unique jury process in which scholars, film and television artists, critics and AFI Trustees determine the 10 most significant films and the 10 most significant television shows of the year. Together, they acknowledge the storytellers whose provocative, boundary-pushing work advanced the art form in 2018.

MOTION TELEVISION PICTURES PROGRAMS

BLACK PANTHER THE AMERICANS

BLACKKKLANSMAN THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY EIGHTH GRADE ATLANTA THE FAVOURITE BARRY FIRST REFORMED BETTER CALL SAUL GREEN BOOK THE KOMINSKY METHOD IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL POSE SUCCESSION A STAR IS BORN THIS IS US

SPECIAL AWARD ROMA

55 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE –IMPACT– IMPACT REPORTREPORT AFI CONSERVATORYAFI AWARDS 56 AFI SILVER THEATRE & CULTURAL CENTER The AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center Special events and programs in 2018–2019 in Silver Spring, MD, is not only a premier included screenings, festivals, showcases, destination for cinephiles, it is also an incubator for restorations and much more — all serving not innovative film education. only to entertain and enchant, but also to educate mainstream audiences on cinema past and present.

57 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE –IMPACT– IMPACT REPORTREPORT AFI SILVER THEATRE AND AFICULTURAL CONSERVATORY CENTER 58 A STATE-OF-THE-ART MOVING IMAGE “This theater has been my sanctuary EXHIBITION, since moving to Maryland. Thank you AFI Silver Theatre for being a wonderful EDUCATION AND and personal part of my life.” CULTURAL CENTER —Tabrina Hughes, AFI Silver patron LOCATED IN SILVER SPRING, MD

AFI Silver Highlights include:

• AFI Silver’s three biggest film festivals (the AFI Latin American Film Festival, the AFI European Union Film Showcase and the New African Film Festival) setting attendance records in FY19

• The AFI European Union Film Showcase featured 49 films from 25 EU countries

• BROADCAST NEWS with a panel discussion with James L. Brooks

• CRAZY RICH ASIANS featuring a Q&A with screenwriter Adele Lim

• Retrospectives on Ingmar Bergman, Leonard Bernstein, AFI Life Achievement Award recipient , William Holden, , Jean Pierre-Melville, Robert Mitchum, George Romero, Robert Riskin and Fay Wray

3,400 6,300 5,900 Guests attended the Guests attended the Guests attended the THE NEW AFRICAN AFI LATIN AMERICAN AFI EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL UNION FILM SHOWCASE

59 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE – YEARIMPACT IN REPORT REVIEW AFI SILVER THEATRE AND CULTURAL CENTER 60 AFI SILVER SCREEN EDUCATION EFFORTS

Ongoing screen education efforts at AFI Silver include:

• Educational Screenings Program (ESP), providing DC-area schools with screenings, lesson materials and discussions

• Learning for Independence (LFI) program, aiding students with disabilities and complex cognitive needs

• One-day workshops on integrating filmmaking into the classroom for DC-area public and private school teachers

61 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ––IMPACT IMPACT REPORTREPORT AFI SILVER THEATRE AND CULTURALAFI CONSERVATORY CENTER 62 AFI FINANCIAL While AFI represents America’s promise philanthropists, corporate and foundation to nurture the art of the moving image, partners is responsible for powering the the Institute currently receives no AFI mission and ensuring progress for the regular federal funding. As such, a Institute in future generations. PICTURE nationwide community of AFI members,

5% 10% Tickets & Passes 4% General & Administration Scholarships

13% 11% Other 20% Fundraising Corporations

PROGRAMMING 6% 79% TOTAL Foundations TOTAL EARNED REVENUE REVENUE CONTRIBUTIONS EXPENSES

56% 44% Education & Training Preservation and 38% Documentation Tuition 11% Exhibition Individuals National Programs

3% Special Events

63 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE – IMPACT REPORT FINANCIALS 64 AFI BOARD OF TRUSTEES

AFI BOARD OF Gabrielle Carteris Lori McCreary Frank Scherma AFI NATIONAL COUNCIL AFI CORPORATE COUNCIL CORPORATE MEMBERS TRUSTEES CHAIR SAG-AFTRA Revelations Entertainment Television Academy CHAIR CHAIR AGBO; American Airlines; AT&T; Kathleen Kennedy* Steven Stodghill Jim Moffatt Audi of America; CBS Corporation; Toby Emmerich Ron Meyer Ltd. Creative Artists Agency; The Warner Bros. Pictures NBCUniversal Directors Guild of America AFI NATIONAL COUNCIL Decurion Corporation; Discovery AFI BOARD OF VICE CHAIRS Nancy Collins Fisher* Jonathan Miller Chris Silbermann VICE CHAIRS Communications; Fortify 24×7; HBO; DIRECTORS CHAIR Bruce Berman Advancit Capital ICM Partners Robert A. Daly* Jim Gianopulos Wylie A. Aitken Chairman & CEO, Houston Film Commission; ICM Rulemaker, Inc. Jim Moffatt Jada Pinkett Smith Moti Ferder Village Roadshow Pictures Partners; Landmark Theatres; Lockton Overbrook Entertainment Companies, LLC; MicroTech; MPAA; David A. Goodman Edward James Olmos Jenny West Christopher Forman National Geographic Channel; AFI BOARD OF TRUSTEES Writers Guild of America Olmos Productions, Inc. President, The Decurion Corporation NBCUniversal; ; Paramount VICE CHAIRS Bonnie Hammer Frederick S. Pierce* Amblin Partners AFI NATIONAL COUNCIL Alan Horn Pictures; Revelations Entertainment; Jon Avnet* NBCUniversal The Frederick S. Pierce Co. Anthony Vinciquerra MEMBERS Co-Chairman & Chief Creative Entertainment; Films Brad Anderson Officer, The Walt Disney Studios Entertainment; Turner Broadcasting Dr. Carla D. Hayden Cecilia DeMille Presley Sony Pictures Entertainment Richard Frank* Systems, Inc.; Twentieth Century Library of Congress Todd Wagner* Deborah Bridges Anthony R. Jimenez Kevin Reilly Fox; United Artists Entertainment; * President & CEO, MicroTech Turner Entertainment 2929 Entertainment Philip Erdoes The Bedford Falls Universal Pictures; Village Roadshow Scott Keogh Entertainment Group; Village Alan Horn* FOUNDING DIRECTOR Elaine Harris Tom Pollock* CEO, Volkswagen Group of America The Walt Disney Studios Shondaland , Jr.* Alison Hawkins Roadshow Pictures; The Walt Disney The Montecito Picture Company Donna Langley Studios; Warner Bros. Gene F. Jankowski* Charles Rivkin Teena Hostovich * PRESIDENT EMERITA Chairman, Universal Pictures Jankowski Communications Motion Picture Association The Bedford Falls Company Jean Picker Firstenberg* Stephanie Hunt Bryan Lourd System, Inc. Jay Roach Arlene Inch Partner, Managing Director & AFI TRUSTEES Patty Jenkins Everyman Pictures PRESIDENT & CEO Anthony R. Jimenez Co-Chairman, Creative Artists Agency Jeanine Basinger* Scott Keogh Rich Ross Bob Gazzale* Wesleyan University Volkswagen of America, Inc. David R. Kiger David Rubin HONORARY TRUSTEE Chairman, Snap Inc. Katie Bayne Donna Langley Academy of Motion Picture Denzel Washington Elika Portnoy Todd Makurath Bayne Advisors Universal Pictures Arts & Sciences Deborah Goodrich Royce CEO, AGBO Halle Berry Debra L. Lee* Jill Sackler* Lori McCreary Dame Jillian & Dr. Arthur M. Sackler Gary Birkenbeuel* Lori Lee CEO & Co-Founder, Foundation for the Arts AT&T Inc. Revelations Entertainment Roger Birnbaum Sciences & Humanities Arts District Entertainment Eva Longoria Ron Meyer Josh Sapan UnbeliEVAble Entertainment Vice Chairman, NBCUniversal Jim Breyer AMC Networks Inc. Breyer Capital Bryan Lourd Josh Sapan Ted Sarandos Creative Artists Agency President & CEO, James L. Brooks Netflix Gracie Films AMC Networks Inc. Chris Silbermann Founding Partner, ICM Partners

*AFI Board of Directors 65 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE – IMPACT REPORT BOARD OF TRUSTEES 66 $5,000–$9,999 $2,500–$4,999 $1,000–$2,499 Christiane and Anonymous Anonymous Miguel Alemán Velasco Jacque and James Balmain Jeannie Adams Ramune Ambrozaitis and John C. Fry Dana and Albert R. Broccoli David Agranov Mateo Arochi Charitable Foundation Kerstin Alm DONORS The Autry Foundation Timothy Browne Fenwick Anderson AFI is grateful for the following individuals and organizations who supported AFI’s Gary and Betsy Birkenbeuel Joan W. Concklin Lonnie D. Bailey national programs with gifts made between April 11, 2018 and April 10, 2019. Mikkel Bondesen David Conney MD Cecilia Benevich Heather L. Burns and Kathleen A. Maloy Karen and Dean Cooper Colleen Benson Stephen G. Charles Amanda Crick and Glenn Pfeffer Carrie Blazek ANNUAL GIVING Takashi Cheng Leslee Dart Edwin Blue Dale Cochran Aviram Eatessami Pieter Jan Brugge INDIVIDUALS AND FOUNDATIONS Shelley Cranley Andrew Elisburg Christina M. Cabanillas The Critchfield Family Larry Flynt Jean-Christophe Cader Trammell Crow Marilyn Fordney and Sandor Havasi Summer Carr $500,000–$999,999 $25,000–$49,999 Mary Murphy Conlin Karin De Francis Yasmin Fuller Patrick Carroll Estate of James M. Green Bette and Wylie Aitken Antoinette Corcillo The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Pamela and John Giumarra Kendal Chandler Alan and Cindy Horn Foundation Hilary and Jack Angelo Bodil Dencker and Livio Ceppi The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Sandra and Jonathan Glezen Peter Costello II Robert Osborne Trust Roger Birnbaum Sara and Magruder Dent Foundation, Inc. Mike Gonzalez Peter Craig Deborah and Larry Bridges Anne Dougherty and David Dobrikin Scott Eustace Florentino Gregorio Daniel Dodgen Philip Erdoes Constance Elliot The Film Music Foundation $250,000–$499,999 Angel and Patrick Hsieh Steven Dollinger Idit and Moti Ferder Falconwood Foundation Bob and Mimi Gazzale The Ahmanson Foundation Kevin Johnson, Royal Books, Inc. The Honorable Diana Dougan The Green Foundation Farhang Foundation Peter Glenville Foundation Bradbury and Janet Anderson Sylvia and Benjamin Johnson Frances Durako Family Foundation Elaine Harris Jack Gao and Kitty Yu The Gordon Family Foundation Michael Kadenacy Nicolas Emiliani Breyer Family Foundation Teena Hostovich Liberty Godshall and Edward Zwick The Family of Alfred Hitchcock Joseph Kaufman Michael Ermer Robert A. Daly and Carole Bayer Sager Lori and Jeff Hyland Sandra and James Hughes Hiroyuki Iwasaki Cathy King and Wes Schaefer Gabrielle Evans Fields Arlene Inch George Frederick Jewett Foundation East Rachel and John King Steffanee Leaming and Louis J. Horvitz Sarah Fairbrother and $100,000–$249,999 Lilli and Anthony R. Jimenez Peter Johnson Family Foundation James H. Lee Luke Wassum Anonymous Marilyn and Jeffrey Kathleen Kennedy and Sandy Mulligan Andy Leo Ruth Flinkman-Marandy Katzenberg Foundation Frank Marshall Collins-Fisher Foundation Tim Noonan Leslie Mann and Judd Apatow Marc Fox David R. Kiger Christina and Stefan Krause Cecil B. DeMille Foundation Phyllis Parvin and Sheldon Slaten John T. McAleer The Marshall Frankel Foundation Lesley and Michael LaFetra Debra Lee The David Geffen Foundation The T.R. Paul Family Foundation Patrice and James Mitchell Marcia Gaston Susan and Gary Martin Holly and Raymond Little John and Maureen Hendricks Lea and Theodore Pedas Christopher Olness Erleen and Harrell Gillis Onbass Family Trust Tai Lopez Charitable Foundation Lorraine F. Petitfils Education Foundation Sybil and Matthew Orr Jim Goldschmidt Tom Pollock Foundation Magma Global - Mark Rothman Lawrence Herbert Naomi Pinto Cecilia Peck Voll and Daniel Voll Robert Grzedzicki Elika and Adam Portnoy Landry Major and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Rhonda and Howard Pincus Grace Guggenheim Estate of John A. Reed Marshall Herskovitz Will & Jada Smith Holly Rice and John Ptak James Hamlen Family Foundation The Rosenthal Family Foundation Malchow Family Foundation Robin Roberts and James M. Helenthal Gloria S. and Bradley A. Ralph Kathleen Ann Henkel Deborah Goodrich Royce Lesley and Keith Marvin Science on Screen Margo Resnik Larry Herman $50,000–$99,999 Dame Jillian and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler Lori McCreary Nadia Semczuk and Nate Williams John Ruhl Patti and Mitchell Herman The Bridges/Larson Foundation Foundation for the Arts, Jonathan Miller Sciences and Humanities Rajvir Singh M. Duane Rutledge and Chris Congdon Judy and Jonathan Hoff Estate of Ann Garcelon George H. & Marion H. Milton Nancy Stephens and Rick Rosenthal Charitable Trust Vivian Sobchack Jeff Sanderson Harriet Hubbard Alison and John Hawkins Anne and Steven Stodghill Laila and Dryden Pence Lynne Coakley Steele and Pierre Steele Daniele Santori Immaculate Heart High School Hollywood Foreign Diego Villarreal Mautino Press Association Sarah and Ross Perot, Jr. George Shapiro Gene F. Jankowski John Wells Stephanie and Hunter Hunt $10,000–$24,999 William Pintas Ramzy M. Shuhaiber Karen Jerome and Jonathan Eig John Wendell and Mark Okun David C. and Lura M. Lovell Foundation Academy of Motion Picture Sharon Powers John Stephen Joyce Lynn Jones Rita Wilson and The Nancy Malone Living Trust Arts and Sciences Valeria and David Roman Adam Strom Linda Keenan and Peter Day Nicole Avant and Ted Sarandos Carla Rosen-Vacher Catherine Zeta-Jones and Rosalie Swedlin and Robert Cort Anastasia Kotsiras Leslie Miller and Richard Frank Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris Foundation Barbara and Jon Avnet The Franklin and Jean Schaffner Jon Teichrow Wayne Lee Foundation Dr. Jennifer Patterson and Paul and Monica Bancroft Joanne and William Tell Lloyd Levine Family Foundation Sir Chris Silbermann Katie and Todd Traina Ryan Lewis Tom Yoda Suzy Bergner and Steward Family Foundation Jerry “Tank” Tankersley Erin and Lawrence A. Waks Jack Lichtenstein Visionary Women Helen Brandt Jim Wallis Wesleyan University Satjiv S. Chahil Gwendolyn J. White Kevin Xu William J. Chen Stevie Wonder Gwen Wynne and Robert Bell 67 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE – IMPACT REPORT DONOR LISTS 68 ANNUAL GIVING INDIVIDUALS AND FOUNDATIONS (continued) $5,000–$9,999 $2,500–$4,999 $1,000–$2,499 Amazon Studios The Canadian Consulate General Consulate General of Bank of America Consulate General of France Austria in Los Angeles Kira Reed Lorsch, Henry Otto Edward Gartenberg Onscreen Biennial in Los Angeles Consulate General of Belgium The Robert H. Lorsch Foundation Phyllis Piano Robert Sherley CIROC VS Consulate General of Israel Embassy of Hungary Marcia Lucas in Washington DC Kaya Pino Scott Sorrentino City National Bank Consulate General of the Republic of Poland Joanne and Barry Lynn Entertainment Partners Lois Anne Polan A. Cosmoe Stamp Combined Federal Campaign Delegation of the European Union to the German Films Karen and Chris Mahne Nanette and William Price Sidney Stern Memorial Trust of the National Capital Area Embassy of Australia Government of Quebec Robert Mandel Wendy Price Bryan Michael Stoller Consulate General of the Republic Barbara Martin of Indonesia Embassy of the Federal Korean Cultural Center Francis Quillinan, Jr. David Lee Swann Republic of Kathy and Gregory McKeen Epic Brokers Visionary Eye Doctors Karen and Richard Ray, Jr. Linda Thompson Embassy of the Republic Brenda and Japan House Cathleen and Peter Reiher Mitch Urban of Poland in Washington, D.C. Michael McNamara SAG-AFTRA Meryl Rizzotti Charlann Vander Pluym Inter-American Alison Mezey South Park Production The Albert A. Robin Family Foundation Matthew Watson Development Bank Claire Moreno Troublemakers Studios Edward Romano Kate and Robert Weddle Japan Foundation, Los Angeles Amanda Moriaty TV5Monde Melinda Salzman and Cindy and Bill White Le Lycee Francais Stephanie Mueller UniFrance de Los Angeles, Inc. Sherman Edwards Jean and Richard Widmark Foundation Kristin Nelson Telefilm Canada Nelson Akira Sato Women in Film Carol Newman Tunzini Pictures, Inc. Carol Savoie Susan Zayatz Jack Nicholson Alexandra Seros and Renae and Greg Niles Walter Ulloa Bryan M. O’Keefe Daniel Shafer Jennifer Ormson Joan Shapiro and ANNUAL GIVING IN-KIND

Alt 98.7 Fortify 24x7 KOST 103.5 Ruige American Airlines Hall Wines La Nueva 87.7 FM Scion Restaurant ANNUAL GIVING American Cinematographer Hispanic Chamber of Commerce LA Weekly Screen International AT&T Montgomery County Lagunitas Brewing Company SmartSource ORGANIZATIONS AND GOVERNMENT Atlantech Online Inc. Hollywood & Highland Los Angeles So Cal Self Storage Audi of America The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Confidential Magazine Trailer Addict $1,000,000+ $50,000–$99,999 Omega Backstage US Blanks Audi of America 20th Century Fox Moia Entertainment The Bagel Broker Hotel George Martin Outdoor Media Variety Turner AGBO The Montecito Picture Company CineSend The Hotel Monaco, MovieMaker Magazine The Wall Street Journal CBS Television Network National Endowment for the Arts Washington DC Deadline NBC4 Telemundo44 Washington City Paper $250,000–$999,999 Discovery Communications Northern Trust Hoy Emphatic Theatrical LLC Nelly Films AAE, Inc. WETA TV26 AT&T Hayman-Woodward Corp. Revelations Entertainment IMDbPro E & J Gallo Winery Outfront Media WHUT-TV American Airlines Italian National Tourist Board IndieWire Elevent Panavision TheWrap Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. NBCUniversal Networks International $10,000–$24,999 KCRW 89.9 FM Pollo Campero Yelp Inc. Montgomery County, Maryland Showtime Documentary Films City of Los Angeles, Kesta Happening DC Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. Village Roadshow Department of Cultural Affairs Entertainment Group Warner Bros. DC Office of Cable Television, Film, Music & Entertainment AFI ENDOWMENT FUNDS $25,000–$49,999 Dolby Laboratories $100,000–$249,999 EOS World Fund Creative Artists Agency Irwin & Sheila Allen Endowed Scholarship Henry Hathaway Endowed Scholarship Daniel & Dorothea Petrie 2929 Entertainment/ Giorgio Armani Corporation Todd Wagner Dallas Film Society Auerbach-Stuart Family Scholarship Hollywood Foreign Press Association Endowed Scholarship Houston Film Commission AMC Networks Deloitte Touche Holleigh Bernson Endowed Memorial Award Endowed Scholarship Mary Pickford Foundation Tohmatsu Limited LerFilm Inc. Endowed Scholarship Corporation for Amy Rose Bloch Endowed Scholarship Stanley Kamen Endowed Scholarship Public Broadcasting HBO Maryland Film Office Richard Levinson Endowed Scholarship Constance Ropolo Charitable Trust Endowed Fellowship Endowed Scholarship Maryland State Arts Council Hulu MicroTech Harold Lloyd Endowment Jean Picker Firstenberg Endowment Carol Schreder Endowed Scholarship NBCUniversal ICM Partners Pacific Theatres and The Nancy Malone Endowment provided by ArcLight Cinemas Fisher Family Endowed Scholarship Jane Ann Stewart Endowed Scholarship Netflix IMDbPro The Bob and Dolores Hope Panavision Ann Garcelon Endowed Scholarship Charitable Foundation Gary Winick Endowed Scholarship Paramount Pictures Italian Trade Agency ProSight Bob & Mimi Gazzale Endowment Shirley A. Olivadoti Endowed Scholarship Women in Film/Tichi Wilkerson Kassel Time Warner Foundation Lake Como Mosie Hackett Endowed Fellowship Memorial Scholarship Fund Lifetime/A&E RED Digital Camera

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