AFI Life Achievement Award
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Year: 2011
Age At The Time: 74
Famous Work:
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Unforgiven (1992)
Seven (1995)
Million Dollay Baby (2004)
Year: 2010
Age At The Time: 78
Famous Work:
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
The Graduate (1967)
Wit (2001)
Angels In America (2003)
Year: 2009
Age At The Time: 64
Famous Work:
Wall Street (1987)
Traffic (2000)
Wonder Boys (2000)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Year: 2008
Age At The Time: 71
Famous Work:
Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Reds (1981)
Bugsy (1991)
Year: 2007
Age At The Time: 67
Famous Work:
The Godfather (1972)
Scarface (1983)
Dick Tracy (1990)
Angels In America (2003)
Year: 2006
Age At The Time: 75
Notable Work:
From Russia With Love (1963)
The Untouchables (1987)
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989)
The Hunt For Red October (1990)
Year: 2005
Age At The Time: 60
Famous Work:
American Graffiti (1973)
Star Wars Episodes I, II, III & IV (1999, 2002, 2005 & 1977)
Indiana Jones Movies
Hook (1991)
Year: 2004
Age At The Time: 54
Famous Work:
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
The Hours (2002)
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Julie & Julia (2009)
Year: 2003
Age At The Time: 59
Famous Work:
Taxi Driver (1976)
Raging Bull (1980)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Goodfellas (1990)
Year: 2002
Age At The Time: 45
Famous Work:
Philadelphia (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Cast Away (2000)
Year: 2001
Age At The Time: 58
Famous Work:
The Way We Were (1973)
Funny Girl (1968)
Yentl (1983)
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Year: 2000
Age At The Time: 57
Famous Work:
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
Witness (1985)
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
The Fugitive (1993)
Year: 1999
Age At The Time: 69
Famous Work:
The Graduate (1967)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Tootsie (1982)
Rain Man (1988)
Year: 1998
Age At The Time: 83
Famous Work:
West Side Story (1961)
The Sound Of Music (1965)
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Year: 1997
Age At The Time: 54
Famous Work:
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Last Temptation Of Christ (1988)
Goodfellas (1990)
The King Of Comedy (1982)
Year: 1996
Age At The Time: 65
Famous Work:
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
Gran Torino (2008)
Year: 1995
Age At The Time: 48
Famous Work:
Schindler's List (1993)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
The Color Purple (1985)
Year: 1994
Age At The Time: 56
Famous Work:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Chinatown (1974)
The Shining (1980)
The Departed (2006)
Year: 1993
Age At The Time: 61
Famous Work:
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
The Taming Of The Shrew (1967)
Year: 1992
Age At The Time: 65
Famous Work:
Lilies Of The Field (1963)
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)
In The Heat Of The Night (1967)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Year: 1991
Age At The Time: 74
Famous Work:
Paths Of Glory (1957)
Champion (1949)
The Bad And The Beautiful (1952)
Lust For Life (1956)
Year: 1990
Age At The Time: 82
Famous Work:
Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
A Passage To India (1984)
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
Ryan's Daughter (1970)
Year: 1989
Age At The Time: 72
Famous Work:
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
The Keys Of The Kingdom (1945)
The Boys From Brazil (1978)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Year: 1988
Age At The Time: 63
Famous Work:
Mister Roberts (1955)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
JFK (1991)
Chaplin (1992)
Year: 1987
Age At The Time: 79
Famous Work:
Ball Of Fire (1941)
Stella Dallas (1938)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1949)
Year: 1986
Age At The Time: 79
Famous Work:
The Apartment (1960)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Year: 1985
Age At The Time: 72
Famous Work:
An American In Paris (1951)
Singin' In The Rain (1952)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
Year: 1984
Age At The Time: 90
Famous Work:
The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
The Night Of The Hunter (1955)
Duel In The Sun (1946)
Way Down East (1920)
Year: 1983
Age At The Time: 76
Famous Work:
Chinatown (1974)
The Treasure Of Sierra Madre (1948)
The Misfits (1961)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Year: 1982
Age At The Time: 84
Famous Work:
It Happened One Night (1934)
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
You Can't Take It With You (1938)
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
Year: 1981
Age At The Time: 81
Famous Work:
Funny Face (1957)
Top Hat (1935)
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Shall We Dance (1937)
Year: 1980
Age At The Time: 71
Famous Work:
Vertigo (1958)
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Rear Window (1954)
Year: 1979
Age At The Time: 79
Famous Work:
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
North By Northwest (1959)
Vertigo (1958)
Year: 1978
Age At The Time: 72
Famous Work:
Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)
Year: 1977
Age At The Time: 68
Famous Work:
All About Eve (1950)
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)
The Letter (1940)
Dangerous (1935)
Year: 1976
Age At The Time: 73
Famous Work:
The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)
Dodsworth (1936)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Year: 1975
Age At The Time: 59
Famous Work:
Citizen Kane (1941)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
Othello (1952)
Macbeth (1948)
Year: 1974
Age At The Time: 74
Famous Work:
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
White Heat (1949)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Shake Hands With The Devil (1959)
The AFI Life Achievement Award was established by the Board of Directors of the American Film Institute on February 26, 1973 to honor a single individual for his or her lifetime contribution to enriching American culture through motion pictures and television.
The Trustees initially specified that the recipient must be one who fundamentally advanced the art of film and whose achievements had been acknowledged by the general public as well as by film scholars and critics and the individual's peers. The Trustees also specified that the work of the recipient must have withstood the test of time.