variety.com - 10/12/2009
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Filmmaker to receive Life Achievement Award Mike Nichols has been tapped by the American Film Institute to receive the AFI Life Achievement Award. Sir Howard Stringer, chair of the AFI board, made the announcement Sunday. The kudo will be presented at a tribute in Los Angeles next summer. "His ...
filmschoolrejects.com - 10/12/2009
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Hear ye, hear ye! Variety has reported that
Sir Howard Stringer — an actual knight who, when...
he is not rescuing distressed damsels and fighting what we can only imagine would be rather incendiary dragons, serves as chair of the American Film Institute’s board — announced ...
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Mike Nichols Has Achieved Much in His Lifetime, Says AFI
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Mike Nichols Has Achieved Much in His Lifetime, Says AFI
Film School Rejects —
Hear ye, hear ye! Variety has reported that Sir Howard Stringer — an actual knight who, when he is not rescuing distressed damsels and fighting what we can only imagine would be rather incendiary dragons, serves as chair of the American Film Institute’s board — announced that director Mike Nichols will receive AFI’s Life Achievement Award in a ceremony next summer. Here’s 7 reasons why we’re not surprised:
1. Nichols was honored at the Kennedy Center a few years back. (Some of our favorite FSR readers were there.)
2. He’s getting old. Like, really old. ...
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