The American Film Institute, AFI, was founded on 5 June 1967 under a mandate announced two years earlier by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House Rose Garden, establishing a national organization to preserve and advance American film heritage. Its founding was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation, and its original 22 member board of trustees included Gregory Peck as chairman, Sidney Poitier as vice chairman, and director Francis Ford Coppola; its founding director was George Stevens Jr.
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Founding Year HeadquartersLos Angeles, California, U.S. 1 Organization Kind Connections
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Ranked first on the American Film Institute list 100 Years...100 Movies in 1998 and again in 2007
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- Founding Year: 1967
- Headquarters: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.
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AFI
American Film Institute, lead paragraph (Wikipedia), status
The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.
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Prior leaders were founding director George Stevens Jr. (from the organization's inception in 1967 until 1980) and Jean Picker Firstenberg (from 1980 to 2007).
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Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.
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