What is American Film Institute?
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox organization | name = American Film Institute | image = American Film Institute (AFI) logo.svg | founded = {{start date and age|1967|6|5}}<ref>{{cite news|last1=Howe|first1=Desson|title=Film Notes|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/06/05/film-notes/82ed3751-36da-40aa-9f5f-108eb47bc697/|accessdate=June 10, 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=June 5, 1987|quote=And the AFI was born June 5, 1967 -- exactly 20 years ago.}}</ref> | location = [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], [[United States]] | key_people = {{Plainlist| * [[Bob Gazzale]]<br>({{small|President and CEO}}) * [[Howard Stringer|Sir Howard Stringer]]<br />({{small|Chair, Board of Trustees}}) * [[Robert A. Daly]]<br />({{small|Chair, Board of Directors}})}} | website = {{URL|afi.com}} }} The '''American Film Institute''' ('''AFI''') is an independent, [[organization]] that is designed not to make money created by the [[National Endowment for the Arts]], which was started in 1967 when President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act. [[George Stevens, Jr.]] was the first director of the organization. [[Jean Picker Firstenberg]] was the director from 1980 to 2007. Bob Gazzale is the current President and CEO. The AFI [[AFI Conservatory|Conservatory]] trains new filmmakers. Even though its name only mentions film, AFI also works on [[television]] and [[video]]. In 1973, the AFI began handing out [[Life Achievement Award]]s. In 1998, when [[United States|American]] [[cinema]] had existed for 100 years, AFI began its [[100 Years Series]], which helped people become interested in the history of movies. Recently, it built and started the [[AFI Silver]] Theatre and Cultrual Center in [[Silver Spring]], [[Maryland]] near [[Washington, D.C.]] ==AFI 100 Years series== In honor of the hundredth [[birthday]] of American cinema, the AFI has made several lists of the best movie-related things: * 1998: [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 M