Jane Fonda to Receive AFI Life Achievement Award

Jane Fonda has been selected to receive the American Film Institute’s 42nd AFI Life Achievement Award. The honor will be presented to her at a gala tribute June 5 in Los Angeles that will be broadcast by both TNT and Turner Classic Movies.

Fonda, an Oscar winner for 1971’s Klute and 1978’s Coming Home, follows in the footsteps of her father, Henry Fonda, who received the AFI’s highest honor in 1978, making the Fondas the third family to receive multiple AFI awards: Kirk Douglas was recognized in 1991, and his son Michael Douglas in 2009; Warren Beatty was honored in 2008, and his sister Shirely MacLaine in 2012.

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In announcing Jane Fonda’s selection by the AFI board, Howard Stringer, the board’s chair, said: “Jane Fonda is American film royalty. 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.”

Since she made her film debut in 1960’s Tall Story, Fonda has starred in more than 40 films that have included Cat Ballou, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, The China Syndrome, 9 to 5, and On Golden Pond. Most recently, she has appeared in HBO’s The Newsroom and on the big screen in Lee Daniels’ The Butler, appearing as Nancy Reagan.

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Beyond her acting career, she has devoted herself to various causes as a political activist, and also contributed to the ‘80s aerobics craze with her workout videos.  

The list of AFI Life Achievement Award recipients follows:

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?

2013   Mel Brooks