Mel Brooks Receives American Film Institute (AFI) Lifetime Achievement Award

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.

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an independent Non-Profit Organization created by the National Endowment For the Arts which was established in 1967 when the US President Lyndon B Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act

The AFI Life Achievement Awards

When AFI was founded in 1967, one of its purposes was to ensure that "great accomplishments of the past are recognized to the end that the masters of film may take their deserved place in history beside leaders in other arts." This objective was clearly achieved through the AFI Life Achievement Award, which was established by the AFI Board of Trustees on February 23, 1973. 

The AFI Life Achievement Award honors an individual whose career in motion pictures or television has greatly contributed to the enrichment of American culture.

 

2013 AFI Life Achievement Awards

The 41st AFI Life Achievement Award will be presented to Mel Brooks at a gala tribute at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on June 6, 2013

 

Previous Winners -2000 to 2012

Year	RECIPIENT
2013	Mel Brooks
2012	Shirley Maclaine
2011	Morgan Freeman
2010	Mike Nichols
2009	Michael Douglas
2008	Warren Beatty
2007	Al Pacino
2006	Sean Connery
2005	George Lucas
2004	Meryl Streep
2003	Robert De Niro
2002	Tom Hanks
2001	Barbra Streisand
2000	Harrisaon Ford