Jane Fonda To Receive 42nd AFI Life Achievement Award

Jane Fonda To Receive 42nd AFI Life Achievement Award

America's Highest Honor for a Career in Film to be Presented June 5, 2014

Tribute will Air on TNT and Turner Classic Movies in June 2014

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sir Howard Stringer, Chair of the American Film Institute's Board of Trustees, announced today the Board's decision to honor Jane Fonda with the 42nd AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film. The award will be presented to Fonda at a gala tribute on June 5, 2014 in Los Angeles, CA. The 42nd AFI Life Achievement Award tribute special will return for its second year on TNT when it airs in June 2014 followed by encores on sister network Turner Classic Movies (TCM).

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"Jane Fonda is American film royalty," said Stringer. "A bright light first introduced to the world as the daughter of Henry Fonda, the world watched as she found her own voice and forged her own path as an actor and a cultural icon. Today she stands tall among the giants of American film, and it is AFI's honor to present Jane Fonda with its 42nd Life Achievement Award."

The Academy Award(®)-winning actor of KLUTE (1971) and COMING HOME (1978), Fonda has starred in more than 40 films since her screen debut. Spanning decades, her diverse career features celebrated comedies - including CAT BALLOU (1965) and 9 TO 5 (1980) - as well as powerful dramatic performances such as THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? (1969), JULIA (1977), THE CHINA SYNDROME (1979), THE MORNING AFTER (1986) and ON GOLDEN POND (1981) - in which she starred with her father, Henry Fonda, the AFI Life Achievement Award recipient in 1978. More recently, Fonda appeared in Lee Daniels' THE BUTLER (2013), and currently stars in Aaron Sorkin's HBO series, THE NEWSROOM.

The sponsor of the 2014 AFI Life Achievement Award tribute to Jane Fonda is American Airlines, the official airline of the American Film Institute.

The highest honor given for a career in film, the AFI Life Achievement Award was established by the AFI Board of Trustees on February 26, 1973. It is presented to a single honoree each year based on the following criteria as mandated through a resolution passed by the AFI Board of Trustees:

"The recipient should be one whose talent has in a fundamental way advanced the film art; whose accomplishment has been acknowledged by scholars, critics, professional peers and the general public; and whose work has stood the test of time."

Honored Recipients
Jane Fonda joins an esteemed group of individuals who have been chosen for this distinguished honor since its inception in 1973. A group that includes her father Henry Fonda (1978), making them the first father/daughter honorees in the history of the award. Kirk Douglas and Michael Douglas share a similar precedent as recipients in 1992 and 2009, respectively.


1973 John Ford 1994 Jack Nicholson

1974 James Cagney 1995 Steven Spielberg

1975 Orson Welles 1996 Clint Eastwood

1976 William Wyler 1997 Martin Scorsese

1977 Bette Davis 1998 Robert Wise

1978 Henry Fonda 1999 Dustin Hoffman

1979 Alfred Hitchcock 2000 Harrison Ford

1980 James Stewart 2001 Barbra Streisand

1981 Fred Astaire 2002 Tom Hanks

1982 Frank Capra 2003 Robert De Niro

1983 John Huston 2004 Meryl Streep

1984 Lillian Gish 2005 George Lucas

1985 Gene Kelly 2006 Sean Connery

1986 Billy Wilder 2007 Al Pacino

1987 Barbara Stanwyck 2008 Warren Beatty

1988 Jack Lemmon 2009 Michael Douglas

1989 Gregory Peck 2010 Mike Nichols

1990 David Lean 2011 Morgan Freeman

1991 Kirk Douglas 2012 Shirley MacLaine

1992 Sidney Poitier 2013 Mel Brooks

1993 Elizabeth Taylor 2014 Jane Fonda
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