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41st AFI Life Achievement Award Honoring Mel Brooks

201368399Los Angeles CA: American Film Institute 2013. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. Pierson Seth Photo Editor. 91 1 p. Includes illustrations. Many illustrations in color. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Mel Brooks born June 28 1926 is an American film director screenwriter composer lyricist comedian actor and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. He began his career as a stand-up comic and as a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows. He became one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s. His well known films include The Producers Blazing Saddles Young Frankenstein Silent Movie High Anxiety and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Brooks is one of the very few entertainers who have won an Emmy a Grammy an Oscar and a Tony award. 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 recipient is selected and honored at a ceremony annually with the award presented by a master of ceremonies and recently the prior year's recipient who usually gives a brief synopsis of the awarded individual and career background including highlights and achievements. 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. The American Film Institute AFI was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson enacted the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act. In April 2003 AFI re-opened the 1938 AFI Silver theatre in Silver Spring Maryland The American Film Institute was founded in 1967 as a national arts organization to preserve the legacy of American film heritage educate the next generation of filmmakers and honor the artists and their work. George Stevens Jr. served as director from the institute's founding until 1980. In 1969 the institute established the Center for Advanced Film Studies. The first class included filmmakers Terrence Malick David Lynch Caleb Deschanel and Paul Schrader. That program grew into the AFI Conservatory a fully accredited graduate film school. Melvin Kaminsky born June 28 1926 known professionally as Mel Brooks is an American director writer actor comedian producer and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comedic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows 1950-1954 alongside Woody Allen Neil Simon and Larry Gelbart. Together with Carl Reiner he created the comic character The 2000 Year Old Man. He wrote with Buck Henry the hit television comedy series Get Smart which ran from 1965 to 1970. In middle age Brooks became one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s with many of his films being among the top 10 moneymakers of the year they were released. His best-known films include The Producers 1968 The Twelve Chairs 1970 Blazing Saddles 1974 Young Frankenstein 1974 Silent Movie 1976 High Anxiety 1977 History of the World Part I 1981 Spaceballs 1987 and Robin Hood: Men in Tights 1993. A musical adaptation of his first film The Producers ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007 and was remade into a musical film in 2005. In 2001 having previously won an Emmy a Grammy and an Oscar he joined a small list of EGOT winners with his Tony Award wins for The Producers. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009 a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010 the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award in June 2013 a British Film Institute Fellowship in March 2015 a National Medal of Arts in September 2016 and a BAFTA Fellowship in February 2017. Three of his films ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of the past 100 years 1900-2000 all of which ranked in the top 15 of the list: Blazing Saddles at number 6 The Producers at number 11 and Young Frankenstein at number 13. American Film Institute paperback

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AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute to Shirley MacLaine

201267200Los Angeles CA: American Film Institute 2012. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. 87 1 pages. Includes illustrations. Covers fold out. Some illustrations in color. Includes a filmography and information on television and theater work and her books. The American Film Institute AFI was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson enacted the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act. The American Film Institute was founded to preserve the legacy of American film heritage educate the next generation of filmmakers and honor the artists and their work. George Stevens Jr. served as director from the institute's founding until 1980. In 1969 the institute established the Center for Advanced Film Studies. The first class included filmmakers Terrence Malick David Lynch Caleb Deschanel and Paul Schrader. 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 recipient is honored at a ceremony annually with the award presented by a master of ceremonies and recently the prior year's recipient who usually gives a brief synopsis of the awarded individual and career background including highlights and achievements. 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. Shirley MacLean Beaty born April 24 1934 known professionally as Shirley MacLaine is an American film and theater actress singer dancer activist and author. She has won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion Picture Musical or Comedy twice for her roles in The Apartment and Irma la Douce and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion Picture Drama twice for Terms of Endearment and Madame Sousatzka. She was honored with the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1998. She was nominated for an Academy Award five times before winning the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1983 for her role as Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment. She won the 1976 Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Comedy-Variety or Music for Gypsy in My Soul. She has written a large number of autobiographical works many dealing with her beliefs as well as her career. In 2012 she was honored with the 40th AFI Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. MacLaine made her film debut in Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry for which she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year Actress. American Film Institute paperback

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