AFI awards Lucas for lifetime achievement. Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service (10/17/2004)
...finally awarded a big lifetime achievement award. The American Film Institute...will receive the 33rd AFI Lifetime Achievement honor...being recognized by the AFI for it is really an honor...Others honored by the AFI with this award include...

32nd Annual AFI Lifetime Achievement Award Getty Images (6/10/2004)
...Winter Getty Images 06-10-2004 HOLLYWOOD - JUNE 10: Actress Melanie Griffith attends the "32nd Annual AFI Lifetime Achievement Award: A Tribute to Meryl Streep" held at the Kodak Theatre, June 10, 2004 in Hollywood, California. (Photo...

The 33rd AFI Lifetime Achievement Award - Show Getty Images (6/9/2005)
...Winter Getty Images 06-09-2005 HOLLYWOOD - JUNE 9: Director George Lucas waves onstage during the 33rd AFI Life Achievement Award tribute to George Lucas at the Kodak Theatre on June 9, 2005 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter...

Michael Douglas honored with the 37th AFI Lifetime Achievement Award to be aired on TV Land AP Images (5/18/2009)
Michael Douglas will be honored with 37th AFI Life Achievement Award which airs on TV Land, July 19th, 2009 at 9:00p.m. ET/PT. (Casey Rodgers/AP Images for TV Land)

'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

AFI gives 'special effect' Streep lifetime achievement award Oakland Tribune (6/14/2004)
...colleagues Thursday night as the actress received a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute. Jim Carrey...perfect, right?" Streep, 54, has two Academy Awards: supporting actress for 1979's "Kramer vs...

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 presented the award itself to Pacino, ...

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 Life Achievement Award...