2024 AFI Awards: Top 10 films and TV shows include ‘Anora,’ ‘The Penguin’ …
On Thursday, the American Film Institute made its selection of the top 10 films and TV shows of the 2024 calendar year. The AFI Awards list includes Oscar frontrunners like Neon’s “Anora” and A24’s “The Brutalist,” and hot new small-screen favorites like HBO’s “The Penguin” and FX’s “Shōgun.” Did YOUR favorite projects make the cut? See the full lists below.
Among the acclaimed movies that were passed over this year are “September 5,” “Gladiator II,” and “The Substance.”
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Some of the notable overlooked television programs include “Slow Horses,” “Only Murders in the Building,” and “Ripley.”
Over the past two decades, the AFI list has been a pretty strong indicator of how the Academy Awards category for Best Picture will ultimately look. Last year, only two out of AFI’s top 10 — “May December” and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” — failed to make that Oscar lineup. They were ultimately replaced by two non-American productions: France’s “Anatomy of a Fall” and the UK’s “The Zone of Interest.”
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Here are the complete lists for the 2024 calendar year:
AFI Top 10 Films
“Anora”
“The Brutalist”
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Nickel Boys”
“A Real Pain”
“Sing Sing”
“Wicked”
AFI Top 10 Television Programs
“Abbott Elementary”
“The Bear”
“Hacks”
“A Man On The Inside”
“Mr. & Mrs. Smith”
“Nobody Wants This”
“The Penguin”
“Shōgun”
“Shrinking”
“True Detective: Night Country”
AFI Special Award (for a non-American production)
“Baby Reindeer”
“AFI Awards is never about competition, but community,” said Bob Gazzale, AFI President and CEO. “We look forward to bringing these artists together as one and celebrating their collective power to drive culture forward.”
This year’s juries — one for films and one for television — included artists Sterlin Harjo, Gale Anne Hurd, Charles Melton, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Jane Seymour; scholars Mark Harris, Leonard Maltin and more from Syracuse University, the University of Southern California and the University of California, Santa Cruz; members of the AFI Board of Trustees; critics Ann Hornaday, Mary McNamara, Janet Maslin, Peter Travers and others from The New Yorker, NPR, TV Guide and more. The juries were chaired by AFI Board of Trustees member Jeanine Basinger (Chair Emerita and Founder of the Film Studies Department, Wesleyan University) and AFI Board of Trustees Vice Chair Richard Frank (former Chairman of Walt Disney Television, President of Walt Disney Studios, President of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences).
The American Film Institute will bestow its 2024 honorees at a special black-tie event on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. Sound off about this year’s AFI Awards in our forums.
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