AFI Life Achievement Award to Sean Connery
American Film Institute, 2006. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 88 pages. Includes illustrations. Many illustrations in color. Back cover folds out. This publication documents the 34th AFI life achievement award, and was presented as a memento to AFI members. The American Film Institute (AFI) is an organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States. The American Film Institute was founded by a 1965 presidential mandate announced in the White House by Lyndon B. Johnson—to establish a national arts organization to preserve the legacy of American film heritage, educate filmmakers, and honor the artists and their work. In 1967, AFI was established, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation. The original Board of Trustees included Gregory Peck as chairman and Sidney Poitier as vice-chairman, as well as Francis Ford Coppola, historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Jack Valenti, and other representatives from the arts and academia. Sir Thomas Sean Connery CBE (born 25 August 1930) is a Scottish retired actor and producer, who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films, between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie, Murder on the Orient Express, The Man Who Would Be King, The Name of the Rose, Highlander, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, Dragonheart, The Rock, and Finding Forrester. Connery has been polled in The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: AFI, Sean Connery, American Film Institute, Life Achievement Award, George Lucas, Stephen Speilberg, Motion Pictures, Hollywood, Actors, Movie Stars
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