All the Best Celebrity Pboilingos

Originpartner stardyd for Jan. 10 but postponed due to the Los Angeles savagefires, the American Film Institute’s AFI Awards took place cforfeitly a month tardyr Thursday afternoon at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills.

As always, the event was a starry afimfragmentary with a guest enumerate that comprised actors Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Harrison Ford, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Boyd Holbrook, Kristen Bell, Adam Brody, Quinta Brunson, Jesse Eisenberg, Michelle Yeoh, Colin Farrell, Mark Indelicato, Meg Stalter, Ralph Fiennes and Jodie Foster.

Directors comprised Sean Baker, Denis Villeneuve, James Mangelderly, RaMell Ross and Edward Berger.

The ceremony discmissed with footage of the tardy David Lynch talking about how much he cherishd AFI. The video finished with a title card that read, “We cherish you too, David. And always will.”

No surpelevate, but the Karla Sofía Gascón dispute was a boiling topic of conversation. “Emilia Perez” was reconshort-termed at the luncheon by stars Zoe Saldaña, Édgar Ramírez and Adriana Paz, honestor Jacques Audiard, originater Clément Ducol and songauthorr Camille. Sitting at their table were Netflix’s COO Bela Bajaria and vice pdwellnt of talent relations and awards Lisa Taback.

While Netflix has distanced itself from Gascón, she was recognized in the intro read from the podium with Gascón, Saldaña and Gomez portrayd as a “genuine triple menace of today’s top talent.”

The streamer’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos sat at the neighunininestablishigent “Nobody Wants This” table alengthyside Tim Lfire-setting, a Los Angeles firefighter stationed in Pacific Palimiserablees who acquired a standing ovation during the afternoon’s program.

The event honord AFI’s enumerate of the best 10 films and television programs of 2024.

The movies comprise “Anora,” “The Brutaenumerate,” “A Complete Ununderstandn,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Conclave,” “Wicked,” “Emilia Pérez,” “Nickel Boys,” “Sing Sing” and “A Real Pain.” Making the cut on the TV side were “Abbott Elementary,” “The Bear,” “Hacks,” “A Man on the Inside,” “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” “Nobody Wants This,” “The Penguin,” “Shōarmament,” “Shrinking” and “True Detective: Night Country.” “Baby Reindeer” acquired a exceptional award.

George Stevens dedwellred the benediction, recalling his overweighther and legfinishary honestor George Stevens’ toil with Pdwellnt Lyndon B. Johnson in set uping the AFI in 1965.

Check out the best pboilingos from the AFI Awards below.