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Hollywood Stars Gather for an All-Winners Celebration at the American Film Institute Awards
The AFI Awards recognized the top 10 films and TV programs of 2025 by honoring entire creative teams, highlighting collaboration over competition in a star-studded luncheon.
- On Friday, January 9, 2026 the American Film Institute held a private AFI Awards luncheon at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills, where the jury announced the AFI Motion Pictures and AFI 10 Programs of the Year.
- AFI designed the luncheon to honor entire creative teams through tributes and clips, with AFI President Bob Gazzale framing it as shared recognition so attendees leave feeling like winners.
- The jury awarded a Special Award to It Was Just an Accident, and honored films included Avatar: Fire and Ash, Bugonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Jay Kelly, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Train Dreams, and Wicked: For Good, along with TV honorees like Adolescence and Andor.
- A particularly A-list crowd attended, with Apple CEO Tim Cook and Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos mingling alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Steven Spielberg.
- The luncheon kicked off a busy awards weekend that will wrap up with Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards and paused awards-season competition to reshape recognition patterns.
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2025 AFI AWARDS Honors the Year’s Best Motion Pictures and Television Programs
Today, the American Film Institute (AFI) celebrated the 2025 AFI AWARDS honorees at an exclusive invitation-only luncheon at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills. Celebrating film and television arts’ collaborative nature, AFI AWARDS is the only national program that honors creative teams as a whole, recognizing those in front of and behind the camera. Carol Burnett delivered the annual benediction in celebration of the honorees’ …
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