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Feb 5, 2021 · The American Film Institute (AFI) recently announced their top 10 movies of 2020. Of course, the films that they listed are rated as some of the best movies of the year, receiving many positive reviews and critical acclaim.
- Screen Rant News Editor
- Mia Galuppo
- American Film Institute. After much turnover in the dean’s office, Susan Ruskin took over the reins of the famed conservatory just in time for The American Film Institute’s 50th anniversary and a major year of awards and endowments.
- USC. While most film schools focus on the creative and technical side of filmmaking, few cater to students looking to become execs or producers. USC’s renowned School of Cinematic Arts, which encompasses roughly 1,000 undergraduates and 700 grads, focuses on both disciplines, with a track record to prove it.
- New York University. After an online spring semester of Zoom calls with auteurs like Taika Waititi and Darren Aronofsky, New York University students will partially return to campus this fall with a hybrid approach, and international and L.A.
- Columbia University. The Ivy League MFA program, which will start this fall with a mix of online and in-person classes, will also return with a new commitment to diversity, inclusion and safe-space initiatives, focusing on the ways in which racism, privilege and inequity impact its community through facilitated discussion workshops.
- AFI Conservatory. The small, elite institution that produced David Lynch, Carl Franklin, Patty Jenkins and Julie Dash — and preserved 60,000 priceless historic films now residing in the AFI Collection at the Library of Congress — has plenty to celebrate half a century after it began.
- USC. This year, the USC School of Cinematic Arts may have lost its almost perennial No. 1 spot on our top-film-school lists to the upstart David of AFI — but Hollywood’s Goliath is still very much standing.
- NYU. NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television is reconvening in person for the fall semester, announcing rigorous measures to prevent, track and respond to COVID infections.
- Chapman University. Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts recently hired the second dean in its 25-year history, ex-Hollywood Reporter executive editor and Emmy-winning producer Stephen Galloway.
Sep 6, 2024 · For more than 50 years, the American Film Institute Conservatory has elevated the art of cinema and helped film students lay the groundwork for lifelong film careers. In 2022, FilmSchool.org awarded AFI Best West Coast Film School. And in 2023, The Hollywood Reporter ranked AFI the no. 1 film...
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- Mia Galuppo
- New York University. NEW YORK CITY. NYU was an undeniable presence in the virtual 2021 awards season. Grad school alum Chloé Zhao made history as the first woman of color to win the Oscar for best director for Nomadland, while Zhao’s NYU classmate Shaka King was a part of the first all-Black producing team to be nominated for best picture for Judas and the Black Messiah.
- American Film Institute. LOS ANGELES. At the conservatory, attended by just 327 grad students in 2021, 12- to 14-hour days for six days a week is not an uncommon schedule during a fellow’s first year.
- USC School of Cinematic Arts. LOS ANGELES. Despite challenges the pandemic wrought on job prospects, USC’s First Jobs Program claims to have assisted more than 300 recent alumni with securing entry-level jobs.
- Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. ORANGE, CALIFORNIA. Diversity is a priority at Dodge, where 25 professors of color were hired in the past year and a mentorship program for underrepresented high schoolers will kick off in 2022.
Since then, AFI AWARDS has honored 10 outstanding films and 10 outstanding TV programs deemed culturally and artistically representative of the year’s most significant achievements in the art of the moving image.
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Top 10 - Movies of the Year (in alphabetical order) Past Winners See Rating & Posters. Da 5 Bloods. Judas and the Black Messiah. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Mank. Minari. Nomadland. One Night in Miami...
