'Star Wars' guru Lucas to receive AFI's lifetime achievement award Chicago Sun-Times (10/18/2004)
...the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award, Darth Vader might insist. Lucas...and being recognized by the AFI for it is really an honor...place in June in Los Angeles. The award marks a busy year for Lucas...

Passionate politico's policies: while the insular star has avoided the hoopla of the presidential race, there are issues he'd like to discuss: 'when people expect to hear your political view, you have to treat the process with respect, because the public can resent attention being drawn to political matters by what is invariably called a "celebrity.".(V PLUS: AFI LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: WARREN BEATTY) Daily Variety (6/12/2008)
Warren Beatty has been known to kick off a speech now and then with a dose of wisdom he gleaned from a friend's father: "The greatest gift God can give a man is to enjoy the sound of his own voice," he'll tell audiences. "And the second greatest gift is to get somebody else to listen to it." It's a

Meaning of life: the org's pantheon is impressive but some big names are missing.(AFI Lifetime Achievement) Daily Variety (6/10/2004)
...Life Achievement Award was handed out in...as much for their achievements as for the timing...some cases, the AFI has been able to...certainly fulfilled the AFI's criteria of...co-chair on the AFI's Board of ...

AFI salutes Pacino.(American Film Institute presents lifetime achievement award to Al Pacino)(Brief article) Daily Variety (6/12/2007)
...tributes but just one award were on the menu at Thursday...Film Institute's Life Achievement dinner at the Kodak Theater...a tribute to outgoing AFI prexy Jean Picker Firstenberg...dynamo." But as life achievement honoree, it was AI Pacino...Sean Penn ...

ALL HAIL GEORGE\ AFI HONORS LUCAS WITH LIFETIME ACHIEVMENT AWARD.(News) The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) (6/10/2005)
...Film Institute's annual lifetime achievement award Thursday night. He was...past recipient of the AFI life-achievement prize...fiction to the masses. The AFI show honoring Lucas will...award during the 33rd ...

AFI lifetime nod to Pacino.(Al Pacino receives American Film Institute's life achievement award )(Brief article) Daily Variety (10/23/2006)
...Institute's 35th life achievement award. Pacino will be feted...writer, as he did for AFI's previous tributes...eight times for an Academy Award for his work in films...Howard Stringer, chair of AFI's board of trustees...

AFI 'Rings' in Kudos season: Org praises 'Lord' in 1st awardscast.(American Film Institute awards) Daily Variety (1/7/2002)
...American Film Institute's awards. "There are many people...in this town toward AFI," said one film exec...was a montage of past AFI Lifetime Achievement Award rites, such recent...one wag dubbed it the AFI ...

AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD RETROSPECTIVE: MORGAN FREEMAN "ESSENTIAL GRAHAM" "PICTURES OF THE YEAR" DANNY BOYLE'S "FRANKENSTEIN" AVANT FAIRFAX FESTIVAL "THE HISTORY OF JAZZ IN 111 TRACKS" DEMETRI MARTIN The Washington Post (4/22/2011)
...Film Institute's 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award, and to mark the occasion...20 p.m. Visit www.afi.com/silver for a complete schedule. AFI Silver Theatre, 8633...what happens when Academy Award-winning director Danny...

AFI strikes back, gives lifetime nod to Lucas.(American Film Institute)(George Lucas)(Brief Article) Daily Variety (10/18/2004)
...HOLLYWOOD -- George Lucas has been selected as the American Film Institute's 33rd lifetime achievement award recipient. Nod will be presented to Lucas during AFI's annual June dinner at the Kodak Theater. "George Lucas is a master storyteller...