Film Society of Lincoln Center
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The Film Society of Lincoln Center based in New York City, United States, is one of the world's most prominent film presentation organizations. Founded in 1969, the film society's focuses is on putting spotlights on American Independent and World Cinema, and to recognize and support new filmmakers.[1] The Film Society of Lincoln Center is one of the twelve resident organizations at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Over the last four decades, the film society has introduced to American audiences the works of many of the world's most acclaimed filmmakers, including names such as: François Truffaut, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Pedro Almodóvar and Martin Scorsese.
Each year the organization presents its annual Gala Tribute honoring legendary stars and industry leaders at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center also hosts the annual New York Film Festival, and it publishes the bi-monthly film journal Film Comment.
[edit] Past honorees of Gala Tribute
- 2008 Meryl Streep
- 2007 Diane Keaton
- 2006 Jessica Lange
- 2005 Dustin Hoffman
- 2004 Michael Caine
- 2003 Susan Sarandon
- 2002 Francis Ford Coppola
- 2001 Jane Fonda
- 2000 Al Pacino
- 1999 Mike Nichols
- 1998 Martin Scorsese
- 1997 Sean Connery
- 1996 Clint Eastwood
- 1995 Shirley MacLaine
- 1994 Robert Altman
- 1993 Jack Lemmon
- 1992 Gregory Peck
- 1991 Audrey Hepburn
- 1990 James Stewart
- 1989 Bette Davis
- 1988 Yves Montand
- 1987 Alec Guinness
- 1986 Elizabeth Taylor
- 1985 Federico Fellini
- 1984 Claudette Colbert
- 1983 Laurence Olivier
- 1982 Billy Wilder
- 1981 Barbara Stanwyck
- 1980 John Huston
- 1979 Bob Hope
- 1978 George Cukor
- 1975 Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman
- 1974 Alfred Hitchcock
- 1973 Fred Astaire
- 1972 Charles Chaplin
