No awards season event has a higher ratio of notables to nobodies (amongst whom I count myself) than the annual AFI Awards luncheon, which also has an unbeatable ratio of winners to losers: indeed, every table in the ballroom of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills — save for one for members of the press — is reserved for the principal personnel behind an American film or TV show that was chosen a month or so earlier, by a jury convened by the American Film Institute, as one of the previous year’s 10 best (plus, in some years, such as this one, a film or TV show that was tapped to receive a “special award”).
AFI Awards Lunch Oscar Frontrunners Chalamet, Buckley, Elordi and Grande Celebrate 2025’s Top 10 American Films and TV Shows
