Film Forum

Among his many accomplishments as a writer, filmmaker, producer, and playwright, George Stevens, Jr. is the founder of the American Film Institute, creator of the AFI Life Achievement Award and the Kennedy Center Awards, and served as co-chair of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities for President Obama. His awards and honors include fifteen Emmys, eight Writers Guild Awards, two Peabody awards, the Humanitas Prize, the Spirit of Anne Frank Award, an NAACP Legal Defense Fund Award, and an Honorary Academy Award in 2012. His memoir, My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington, will be available for sale at our concession during the festival.

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