The American Film Institute announced on Wednesday that the 2023 AFI Awards will take place on January 5, 2024 at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles in Beverly Hills.
AFI Awards selections are made through a judging process consisting of AFI trustees, artists, critics and scholars. Submission deadlines will be announced in the coming weeks and winners will be announced in December.
“AFI Awards celebrates the collaborative nature of film and television and is the only national program that honors creative teams as a whole and recognizes both those in front of and behind the camera,” the institute said in a statement. “All of the honored works advance the art of the moving image, inspire audiences and performers alike, and enhance the rich cultural heritage of the American art form. When placed in a historical context, these stories provide a complex and rich visual representation of our modern world.
Including last year’s picks for the best movies of 2022 Avatar: The Way of Water, Elvis, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Fabelmans, Nope, She Said, Tár, Top Gun: Maverick, The Woman King And Women talk. On the TV side, AFI’s picks were for the 10 best TV shows of the year Abbott Elementary, The Bear, Better Call Saul, Hacks, Mo, Pachinko, Reservation Dogs, Severance, Somebody Somewhere And The White Lotus.
AFI also awarded a special prize to The Banshees of Inisherinwith AFI saying the special honor is given to “excellent work that falls outside the eligibility criteria of the AFI Awards.”
