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AFI Fest said Friday that I Am Not Alone, Garin Hovannisian’s documentary about the 2018 Armenian revolution, won this year’s feature film Audience Award, topping the list of prizes given for the annual festival that wrapped its run last night in Hollywood. The festival also said today that it will hold its 2020…

If it is an awards season, the name Clint Eastwood can’t be too far away. And so it is yet again as another Eastwood movie has just thrown its hat in the ring. Richard Jewell had a rousing AFI Fest premiere Wednesday night at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, as well as a SAG Nominating Committee screening at…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. ‘Tis the season, and we’re still even two weeks away from Thanksgiving. Usually the holiday parties are held at least until December — but apparently not in Hollywood, where a truncated awards season not only brings mass panic to strategists worrying…

Unjoo Moon’s Helen Reddy biopic I Am Woman has been added to the Special Screening lineup at AFI Fest 2019. The pic, which debuted this fall at the Toronto Film Festival, will screen November 21 at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres. The film has not been picked up by a U.S. distributor so it doesn’t have a domestic release…

Martin Scorsese has been added to the tribute list at AFI Fest 2019, with his latest film The Irishman set to screen at a ceremony that will include a conversation with the director November 15 at the TCL Chinese Theatre. The news Tuesday means Scorsese joins Alan J. Pakula and Peter Morgan on this year’s festival…

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The AFI Fest has been rolling out its 2019 slate for months — since announcing Melina Matsoukas’ Queen & Slim as its opening-night film in August — and now we have the full lineup. Check it out below. The festival, which runs November 14-21 in Los Angeles, will close with with Apple’s The Banker, starring Anthony…

The AFI Fest said Monday that a pair of streaming-service movies have been added to the Gala mix for the Los Angeles film festival’s 2019 edition next month: Amazon’s The Aeronauts and Netflix’s The Two Popes. They join Clint Eastwood’s world premiere of Richard Jewell in the Gala lineup for the fest, which runs…

AFI Fest 2019 said Thursday that it will play host to “An Evening With Peter Morgan,” which will be followed by a gala screening of the Season 3 opener of Netflix’s The Crown. The event is set for November 16, the day before the Morgan-created hit series about the British royal family returns on the streaming service…

The American Film Institute unveiled their lineup for AFI Fest’s World Cinema and the inaugural Documentary section. The fest will take place November 14-21 in Los Angeles. The world cinema section will include five international feature film Oscar submissions and 16 titles from 19 countries. This includes the Los…

Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell is set to make its world premiere at this year’s AFI Fest, the American Film Institute revealed today. The Gala will take place on Wednesday, November 20 at the TCL Chinese Theatre. Warner Bros. Pictures' Richard Jewell is directed and produced by Eastwood, an AFI Life Achievement Award…

AFI Fest has set the world premiere of Apple’s The Banker, starring Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult and Nia Long, as its closing-night film on November 21 at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Here’s the logline for director George Nolfi’s film: Based on a true story, The Banker centers on…