Mel Brooks To Receive AFI Lifetime Award
Mel Brooks will receive the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the org’s gala June 6 at the Dolby Theatre.
Martin Scorsese will present Brooks with the honor, in an event that will be televised June 15 on TNT and later, as part of an all-night tribute to Brooks, July 24 on TCM.
“For over 50 years, Mel Brooks has given the world its greatest gift – laughter,” AFI Board of Trustees chair Howard Stringer. ”At the American Film Institute, we also want to shine a proper light on his contributions to the art form as writer, producer, director and actor – and who better to bestow this honor than one of the masters of American film, Martin Scorsese.”
Brooks is a past winner at the Emmys, Grammys, Oscars and Tonys in a career ranging from his work on “Your Show of Shows” to film and Broadway versions of “The Producers” and “Young Frankenstein.”
John Ford won the initial AFI Lifetime Achievement Award in 1973.
AFI Life Achievement Award Recipients
1973 John Ford
1974 James Cagney
1975 Orson Welles
1976 William Wyler
1977 Bette Davis
1978 Henry Fonda
1979 Alfred Hitchcock
1980 James Stewart
1981 Fred Astaire
1982 Frank Capra
1983 John Huston
1984 Lillian Gish
1985 Gene Kelly
1986 Billy Wilder
1987 Barbara Stanwyck
1988 Jack Lemmon
1989 Gregory Peck
1990 David Lean
1991 Kirk Douglas
1992 Sidney Poitier
1993 Elizabeth Taylor
1994 Jack Nicholson
1995 Steven Spielberg
1996 Clint Eastwood
1997 Martin Scorsese
1998 Robert Wise
1999 Dustin Hoffman
2000 Harrison Ford
2001 Barbra Streisand
2002 Tom Hanks
2003 Robert De Niro
2004 Meryl Streep
2005 George Lucas
2006 Sean Connery
2007 Al Pacino
2008 Warren Beatty
2009 Michael Douglas
2010 Mike Nichols
2011 Morgan Freeman
2012 Shirley MacLaine
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