AFI Awards 2025: "Avatar: Fire and Ash" and "Andor" Among This Year's Honorees

Two Disney projects were recently selected by the American Film Institute (AFI) as a part of their annual motion picture and television awards.

What’s Happening:

• The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced this year's honorees for their annual AFI Awards. 
• Selecting 10 films and 10 television programs, AFI selects programs that they deem culturally and creatively important for the year. 
• For 2025, two Disney projects have received the honors, including the upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash and the hit Star Wars Disney+ series Andor. 
• Andor, which premiered its second and final season in April of 2025, has been a knockout hit with critics and audiences since its season 1 debut in 2022, serves as a prequel to Rogue One. 
• Set 5 years before the spinoff film, the series follows Cassian Andor’s journey from a struggling outsider to a key rebel fighter, as well as the birth of the Rebellion. 
• Happening under the Empire, the show is praised for its gritty and political take of the Star Wars universe. 
• Avatar: Fire and Ash, which hits theaters on December 19th, follows up 2023’s Avatar: The Way of Water. 
• In Avatar: Fire and Ash, one year after the death of their son Neteyam, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and their Na’vi family work to rebuild their lives. 
• Their peace is disrupted when they encounter the Ash People, a fierce volcano-dwelling Na’vi tribe led by Varang (Oona Chaplin). 
• As tensions rise, alliances shift and the story explores grief, vengeance, and cultural conflict on Pandora.
• While the film hasn’t been released to the masses just yet, first reactions have been majorly positive, praising the film's spectacle and emotional themes. 
• Other honorees include:
  • Motion Pictures of the Year
    • Bulgonia
    • Frankenstein
    • Hamnet
    • Jay Kelly 
    • Marty Supreme
    • One Battle After Another
    • Sinners
    • Train Dreams
    • Wicked: For Good
  • Television Programs of the Year
    • Adolescence
    • Death By Lightning
    • The Diplomat
    • The Lowdon
    • The Pitt
    • Pluribus
    • Severance
    • The Studio
    • Task
• Congratulations to Andor and Avatar: Fire and Ash!

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