HOLLYWOOD — Gearing up for Saturday’s inaugural AFI Awards ceremony, the American Film Institute has revealed the names of their 100-member jury — a.k.a. the voters.
Comprised of an array of professionals from across the moving image communities, AFI’s elite 100 include David Ansen, Darren Aronofsky, Alan Ball, Ron Bass, Marcy Carsey, Richard Corliss, Nora Ephron, Milos Forman, Stephen Gaghan, Amy Heckerling, Greg Hoblit, Dawn Hudson, Spike Jonze, Rita Kempley, Arnold Kopelson, Martin Landau, Lucy Liu, Sidney Lumet, Shirley MacLaine, Variety‘s Todd McCarthy, Peter Rainer, Leah Rozen, John Singleton, Richard Sylbert, Steve Tisch, Kenneth Turan, Saul Zaentz and Hans Zimmer.
AFI Trustees Debbie Allen, Kathleen Kennedy, James V. Kimsey, Steven Spielberg and David Wolper are also members.
Jury considered nominations in 19 categories. Nominees were selected by two 13-member committees, — The 100-member jury of the AFI Awards are:
Dede Allen, Editor
Debbie Allen, Actor/Director/Producer/AFI Trustee
David Ansen, Newsweek
Darren Aronofsky, Director/Writer
Alan Ball, Writer/Director/Producer
Neema Barnette, Director
Ron Bass, Writer/Producer
Robert Benton, Director/Writer
Bob Boyle, Production Designer
Pieter Jan Brugge, Producer
Henry Bumstead, Production Designer
Michelle Byrd, Independent Features Project
Mary Schmidt Campbell, NYU’s Tisch School
Marcy Carsey, Producer
Anne V. Coates, Editor
Richard Corliss, Time Magazine
Leslie Dilley, Production Designer
Richard Edlund, Digital Effects Artist
Nora Ephron, Writer/Director/Producer
Steven Farber, Movieline
Milos Forman, Director
Stephen Gaghan, Writer
Leslie Linka Glatter, Director
Gary David Goldberg, Producer/Writer
Jerry Goldsmith, Composer
Tim Goodman, San Francisco Examiner
Mary Ann Grasso, National Assoc. of Theatre Owners
Christopher Guest, Director/Writer/Actor
Amy Heckerling, Director/Writer/Producer
Leonard Hill, Producer
Tina Hirsch, Editor
Foster Hirsch, Scholar/Historian
Greg Hoblit, Director/Producer
Winnie Holzman, Writer/Producer
Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter
Dawn Hudson, Independent Feature Project West
Annette Insdorf, Columbia University
Mark Johnson, Producer
Shirley Jones, Actor
Spike Jonze, Director/Actor
Glenn Jordan, Director/Producer
Janusz Kaminski, Cinematographer
James Katz, Preservationist
Rita Kempley, The Washington Post
Kathleen Kennedy, Producer/AFI Trustee
Callie Khouri, Writer
James V. Kimsey, AFI Trustee
Arnold Kopelson, Producer
Alan Ladd, Jr., Producer
Martin Landau, Actor
Lucy Liu, Actor
Barrie Lawson Loeks, Loeks-Star Theatres
Brian Lowry, Los Angeles Times
Sidney Lumet, Director
Shirley MacLaine, Actor
Delbert Mann, Director
Todd McCarthy, Variety
Kay McFadden, Seattle Sun-Times
Joyce Millman, Salon.com
Dennis Muren, Digital Effects Artist
Chon Noriega, UCLA
Beverly O’Neill, California Institute of the Arts
Ted Perry, Middlebury College
Polly Platt, Production Designer/Producer
Dale Pollock, N.C. School of the Arts
Dorothy Rabinowitz, The Wall Street Journal
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine
Ken Ralston, Digital Effects Artist
Robert Richardson, Cinematographer
Howard Rosenberg, Los AngelesTimes
Laurence Rosenthal, Composer
Gena Rowlands, Actor
Leah Rozen, People Magazine
Eva Marie Saint, Actor
Edgar Scherick, Producer
Lisa Schwartzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Jan Scott, Production Designer
John Singleton, Director/Writer/Producer
Robert Sklar, New York University
Barbara Smith, American Cinematheque
Penelope Spheeris, Director
Steven Spielberg, Dir./Producer/Writer/AFI Trustee
Rod Steiger, Actor
Jon Storm, Philadelphia Inquirer
Mary Sweeney, Editor/Producer/Writer
Richard Sylbert, Production Designer
Anne Thompson, Premiere
Robert Thompson, Syracuse University
Steve Tisch, Producer
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Amy Vincent, Cinematographer
Joanne Weintraub, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Peter Werner, Director
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Ethel Winant, Producer
David Wolper, Producer/AFI Trustee
Saul Zaentz, Producer
Eugenio Zanetti, Production Designer
Hans Zimmer, Composer
David Zurawik, Baltimore Sun