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unusual facts about AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars


AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars

Stars is a list of the top 50 greatest screen legends in American film history, which included 25 male and 25 female stars.


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2006 Australian Film Institute Awards: Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Teresa Palmer), AFI Young Actor Award (Frank Sweet).

ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation, Inc.

In 1989, ABS-CBN established ABS-CBN Foundation, Inc. (AFI) on the Lingkod Bayan segment at TV Patrol.

AFI / Heckle

AFI's tracks were later re-recorded for their second full-length release, Very Proud of Ya.

AFI Silver

The AFI Silver hosts the annual AFI Docs documentary festival with co-sponsor Silver Spring-based Discovery Channel.

Alan Forbes

He developed the signature icon of The Black Crowes, as well as posters, symbols and album artworks for many other bands, including Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against the Machine, The Offspring, White Stripes, AFI, Dinosaur Jr. and The Misfits.

Amateur film

Abhishek Venkteshwar, Shashank Sharma and Tasneem Sheikh have played a huge role in the development of AFI.

Pooja Umashankar a well known Sinhala-Tamil Star debuted in AFI opposite Abhishek Venkteshwar in Mirage.

Anatomy of a Murder

In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed AFI's 10 Top 10, the best 10 films in 10 "classic" American film genres, after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community.

Anna-Lynne Williams

She has collaborated with Motopony, Minotaur Shock, Phononoir, AFI, Fieldhead, Black Swan Lane, Delerium, and Robert Deeble.

Armed Forces Insurance

AFI also is a corporate member of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA), a private, nonprofit organization that supports the Army—active duty, National Guard, Reserve, civilians, retirees and family members.

Asymmetric cut

Other celebrities who have sported asymmetric hairstyles include singers Cyndi Lauper, Rihanna, Jordan McCoy and Phil Oakey and Davey Havok of AFI.

Blaqk Audio

In the August 2006 edition of Guitar World, Puget states that AFI songs "37mm" and "Love Like Winter" were both originally intended as part of the Blaqk Audio side project.

In 2007, Puget collaborated with the German band Tokio Hotel, contributing a remix of "Ready, Set, Go!" called "Ready, Set, Go! (AFI/Blaqk Audio Remix)" to the American version of Scream.

Bleeders

Began in February 2003 and have gone on to support bands such as Hot Water Music, Good Riddance, Strung Out, Sick Of It All, Avenged Sevenfold, AFI and Good Charlotte.

Bon Harris

Since Nitzer Ebb's last album in 1995, Harris has become an in-demand collaborator working with Depeche Mode, The Smashing Pumpkins, Evanescence, AFI, Avril Lavigne, Bush, and Billy Corgan, who asked Bon to co-produce his solo album, TheFutureEmbrace.

Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid

It launched the careers of Jacki Weaver as Josie and Helen Morse in the title role of Caddie for which she won the AFI Best Actress award.

Cex

The LP cover was in response to AFI's newly formed electronic project, Blaqk Audio, whose album was named the same as Kidwell's first record, CexCells.

Cold Cave

In September 2012, Eisold announced Cold Cave would be touring the US later in the year, he would be recording a new album and that the new live line-up included: Hunter Burgan (AFI), London May (Samhain), David Scott Stone (LCD Soundsystem, Melvins) and Cody Votolato (The Blood Brothers, Jaguar Love).

Enmanuel Quintanilla

Quintanilla started his career with local side AFI before moving to Alianza in 2009 in controversial circumstances: he was alleged to have also signed a contract with Vista Hermosa.

Erik Thomson

He appeared in Somersault with Abbie Cornish and Sam Worthington, which scored him an AFI Award, and also featured in Accidents Happen with Geena Davis.

Financial inclusion

AFI uses a "polylateral development" model to contrast and compare successful financial inclusion policies, focusing on a peer-to-peer system rather than a top-down or North-to-South learning model.

Gustavo Hernández Pérez

Among his many recognitions, Hernández Pérez was honored with the AFI Franklin J. Schaffner Fellowship Award for Best Director of the Year, and the Directors Guild of America (DGA) announced him as Best Latino Director at The 2003 DGA Student Film Awards.

Joe Augustyn

Following graduation from AFI he worked as an associate of Steve Golin and Joni Sighvatsson, who later went on to found Propaganda Films.

Kept and Dreamless

Shown at AFI's Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland on September 24, 2005, this post-modern film explores mother-daughter relationships and the struggles of a 10-year old child to raise her cocaine-addicted mother.

Mary Sweeney

2002: Mulholland Drive (nominated) AFI Film Award – AFI Movie of the Year (shared with producers Alain Sarde, Neal Edelstein, Michael Polaire, Tony Krantz)

Matt Bird

Bird's film 'The Doppelgangers' told the story of a woman haunted by horrific visions of her lover's double, and starred AFI Award Winner Pia Miranda.

My Backyard Was A Mountain

My Backyard Was A Mountain is a 2005 multiple award winning AFI short film by Puerto Rican - American writer/director Adam Schlachter and produced by Austin Wakefield.

Nick DeMartino

In addition, DeMartino initiated AFI-related sponsorships with Adobe Systems Systems), Radius, Macromedia, Claris, Avid Technology, Sony, and many others, establishing the AFI as the "go-to" place to use new media production tools.

Nomads of the North

The 1961 Disney production Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1961–70; F6.3499) is also based on James Oliver Curwood's novel, but the plots of the two films are not similar.

On the Waterfront

In 1997 it was ranked by the American Film Institute as the eighth greatest American movie of all time.

Original Child Bomb

At the 2004 AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival, Original Child Bomb won the Sterling Award along with Death in Gaza.

Patrick Stettner

He went on to direct and write the screenplay for The Business of Strangers in 2001, which earned him a Grand Jury Prize nomination at the Sundance Film Festival of that year and earned lead actress Stockard Channing an AFI nomination for Best Female Actress.

Porphyria cutanea tarda

Porphyria Cutanea Tarda is also the name of a song by the punk band AFI on their album Black Sails in the Sunset.

Raymond Longford

Since the introduction of the award by the AFI in 1968, winners have included Peter Weir, David Stratton, Ian Jones and Geoffrey Rush.

Rei Ayanami

In the music video for "Girl's Not Grey" by alternative rock band AFI, an anime-looking girl appears with a strong resemblance to Rei.

Sense of Purpose

Over the years Sense Of Purpose have supported a host of touring bands including: Agnostic Front (US), H20 (US), AFI(US), Cro-Mags (US), Terror (US), Ensign (US), No Fun at All (Sweden), Strife (US), Champion (US), Citizen Fish (UK), Agent Orange (US), Balance (NZ), Shank (Scotland), DSM (NZ), Shutdown (US), Good Clean Fun (US), Strike Anywhere (US), Dayglo Abortions (Can) and Vitamin X (Neth).

Terence H. Winkless

Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Winkless's family moved to Chicago's North Shore and Terence went to the well-known New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, before continuing to the USC Cinema school and an Internship at the AFI Conservatory.

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

The film won the Best Original Music Score (Bruce Smeaton), Best Actress in a Lead Role (Angela Punch McGregor) and Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Ray Barrett) and was nominated for 9 more awards at the Australian Film Institute (AFI) for 1978.

The Snell Show

After winning the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Slamdance Film Festival, The Snell Show went on to play many festivals across the nation, including the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival, Maryland Film Festival, AFI Film Festival, and Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.

The Uh-Oh! Show

On 26 October 2009, Herschell premiered footage for The Uh! Oh! Show at the opening night of The Spooky Movie Film Festival at the AFI Silver Theatre outside of Washington, D.C., following the 45th anniversary screening of Two Thousand Maniacs!.

Yas Taalat

Making music and performing since he was 13 years old, he has graced the stage with some of the world biggest and best artists like Ozzy Osbourne, Tool, De La Soul, Blink 182, Marilyn Manson, Public Enemy, Sum 41, Jurassic 5, Tech N9ne, Gym Class Heroes, AFI, Linkin Park, Good Charlotte, E-40 and Papa Roach to name a few.


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