American Film Institute Awards

American Film Institute Awards
Awarded forTop films and television programs
CountryUnited States
Presented byAmerican Film Institute
First awarded2000
Websitewww.afi.com/afiawards

The American Film Institute Awards (also known as the AFI Awards) are awards presented by the American Film Institute to recognize the top ten films and television programs of the year. Unlike other accolades about the art form, the AFI Awards acknowledge the film and television productions deemed culturally and artistically representative of the year's most significant achievements in the art of the moving image in American cinema.[citation needed]

Media that does not fit the AFI's conventional eligibility criteria for the main categories, such as non-American productions as well as other types of media, are given recognition through the AFI Special Award.[1]

  1. ^ "AFI AWARDS Submissions". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.