AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
Together we
make change happen
See the impact of your support in 2023
We’re on a mission
As a national nonprofit arts organization, we made a pledge.
We pledged to celebrate and support the artist’s power to inspire empathy – that rarest of insights that brings us together and drives culture forward.
AFI has kept this pledge for over 50 years – through the most challenging of times – thanks to the generosity and support from movie lovers like you.
Our year in numbers
Together we
preserve film history.
25,000
photographs digitized
46,000
files uploaded to the DAM
CATALOG
Women They Talk About
A landmark study documenting unrecorded contributions of female filmmakers in the silent film era
15,000
AFI Catalog users per month
6,000
Newly documented films
800+
Women were working
behind the camera
Together we educate.
175
Films made every year
6:1
Fellow to faculty ratio
18
Student Academy Award® Medal winners for AFI Thesis Films
In the last 5 years...
Academy Awards®
13
4
Nominations
Wins
Emmy® Awards
96
15
Nominations
Wins
2023
Student Academy Award Gold Medal winner
Together we celebrate.
World Cinema and Classic Film Programs
Capital Irish Film Festival
New African Film Festival
DC Labor FilmFest
Spanish Cinema Now
Library of Congress Festival of Film and Sound
DC Caribbean Film Fest
AFI Latin American Film Festival
Noir City DC
Halloween on Screen
Silent Cinema Showcase
AFI European Union Film Showcase
Holiday Classics
90,000+
attendees
103
filmmakers, historians, authors and musicians
AFI MOTION PICTURES OF THE YEAR
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
ELVIS
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
THE FABELMANS
NOPE
SHE SAID
TÁR
TOP GUN: MAVERICK
THE WOMAN KING
WOMEN TALKING
AFI SPECIAL AWARD
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
AFI TELEVISION PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY
THE BEAR
BETTER CALL SAUL
HACKS
MO
PACHINKO
RESERVATION DOGS
SEVERANCE
SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE
THE WHITE LOTUS
32 billion
press impressions
Film is for everyone
148 films
49 countries
20 Best International Feature Oscar® submissions
4 World Premieres
3 Red Carpet Premieres
Films at AFI FEST
17%
directed by LGBTQIA+ filmmakers
43%
Directed by women filmmakers
36%
directed by BIPOC filmmakers
13.5 billion
impressions
36 million
impressions
50 years
of honorees
Together, we give American film a global reach.
1.7 million plays
in 2023
77,700
AFI Movie Club daily email subscribers
AFI Social Media
Expanding AFI’s impact.
7.7 million
views
1.6 million
followers
320+ million
lifetime views
Our next focus
DWW 50th Anniversary
A pioneering gender impact initiative celebration
AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
A Tribute to Nicole Kidman
AFI CONSERVATORY
A training ground for filmmakers
BEHIND THE VEIL
Unprecedented research on short films
and diversity in early Hollywood
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