AFI Joins New York, Los Angeles, Boston & More With Film Award Announcements
Unless you’ve gone to a screening, you’ve probably not gotten a chance to see David O. Russell’s American Hustle (December 20) or Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street (December 25) yet, but film critics have, and they’re being mentioned as two of the best films of the year. They join the robust list of great movies that have already been released this year, creating a glut of truly remarkable films that are giving critics from New York to Los Angeles (and points in between) a remarkably hard task as they hand out their awards.
Where Hollywood Hones Its Craft: Getting Film Schooled At AFI
Tucked in the hills of Griffith Park, the American Film Institute is as much a Hollywood mainstay as its film lore surroundings. From campus, one can see the hillsides housing such celebrated fixtures as the Hollywood sign, the Observatory where James Dean got into a knife fight in Rebel Without a Cause, and hundreds of eclectic, multimillion-dollar homes—many of which house Hollywood’s biggest stars—stretching all the way to the Malibu coastline.
