After Los Angeles fires at the end of January, Many awards were canceled or driven back. On Thursday things seemed to come back with the annual Afi Top Ten Awards Lunch at the four seasons, which in fact stood for the interrupted academy nominated lunch, as applause rippled across the room at the announcement of each of the ten film And TV winners and their clips.
Who got the most applause?
La firefighter Timmy Larson, who nabbed a aroused standing ovation, and represented the thousands of people who risked their lives to fight the raging fires just a few weeks ago. The next biggest? Harrison Ford, the only AFI Life Achievement Award winner, at hand for Apple TV +’s “S shrinking.” Adam Brody and Kristen Bell’s Netflix The series “No one wants this” had a noisy fanbase. And “Sing Sing” is clearly popular.
But at the end of the event, The last movie alphabetically was “Wicked,” With a soaring clip from Cynthia Erivo sings “Defying Gravity.” Producer Marc Platt, director Jon M. Chu, Erivo, Ariana Grande and Michelle Yeoh were in the room. There were enthusiastically, warm applause.
This celebration of the 10 best jury-voted lists for film and television is always a big feature for talent and their studio managers. No have Keeping a speech, and mixing freely was Netflix with Netflix as Ted Sarandos and his film chairman Dan Lin (“Emilia Pérez,” “A man on the inside”, “No one wants this”, “Baby Reindeer”), President and CEO For Warner Bros./discovery David Zaslav and his movie Czars Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy (“Dune: Part two”), Neon’s Tom Quinn (“Anora”), NBCUNIVERSAL Studio Group’s CEO Donna Langley (“Evil“), Mike Hopkins, Head of Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios (” Mr. and Mrs. Smith “), Focus has CEO Peter Kujawski (” Conclave “), co -chairman of Disney Entertainment Dana Walden (FX’s” The Bear, “ABC’s” Abbott Elementary “) and Searchlight -President Matthew Greenfield (” a real pain “,” a completely unknown “).
As he sat at the neon table, Indie Auth was contacted by Sean Baker (“Anora”) by a TV -operating directly to work with him. After she left, he told me he doesn’t want to make series. He is first and foremost a filmmaker. “I’m not going to be seduced!” He said.
Author/director James Mangold beamed when “Indiana Jones” star Ford praised Boyd Holbrook for his performance as Johnny Cash in “A Completely Unknown.” Among the best actor Oscar -challenger was Adrien Brody on hand for “The Brutalist” and Ralph Fiennes (“Conclave”) and a festive dressed Colman Domingo (Sing Sing “).
Wearing very satisfied Glis was the Oscar-nominated screenwriter duo behind “Sing Sing”, director Greg Kwedar and author Clint Bentley, who also wrote “Train Dreams”, Sundance Pickup from Netflix Directed by Bentley.
It is obvious that the Netflix Awards team is ready to move on from their latest scandal. To make the transition to an award ceremony without star and Oscar nominated Karla Sofía GascónWhich was cut off after going on their own villain defense, was not easy. But Netflix is now focused on winning what they can, because Gascón stays in Europe.
French writer/director Jacques Audiard and Zoe Saldaña participated in Afi Awards; She is expected to win supporting actress at Friday’s Critics Choice Awards, whose voices were submitted before the Gascón scandal broke.
During the annual benefit, AFI -founded director George Stevens, came Jr. reminded how the sentenced David Lynch (AFI class 1970) began at AFI. Stevens said, “Let’s remember the remarkable legacy of cinematic creativity that David left for us – the mysterious beauty we found in living his dreams. And when we leave this ceremony with David in our hearts, let’s devote ourselves to restoring our ruined film capital – and to make sure that the “films” in all their forms – are not afraid of grace and beauty and rise to new heights to entertain And enlighten the world. “
