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AFI Awards Kicks Off Important Weekend As Final Oscar Voting Looms With Early Deadline – Notes On The Season
The annual AFI Awards luncheon kicks off a busy awards weekend in style and it is all chronicled in Pete Hammond's Notes On The Season column.
Returning to a blessed tradition and delayed a month due to the wildfires tragedy that stopped the season in its tracks, the AFI Awards, honoring the Top 10 Movies and Television programs as chosen by a specially-selected jury, was back in style Thursday afternoon. “It’s about community, it’s about camaraderie – never about competition,” Gazzale said before setting off another massive standing ovation when he introduced the “only recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award” in the room this day, Harrison Ford, who was there at the table of Apple TV+’s honoree Shrinking, in which he co-stars. Defying genre with every fresh step, Jacques Audiard’s stylishly provocative thriller continually explodes its narrative with powder keg performances from Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón and Selena Gomez – a true triple threat of today’s top talent.
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