Mike Nichols Accepts the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2010

ladies and gentlemen would you please welcome the 2010 live achiever honoree not right [Applause] give you audience [Applause] Oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I got to see my own memorial and I'm still alive sort of I want to thank all those who spoke live to put it mildly and on tape you amazed me when we were manga the movies just about knocked me out tonight but this is no time for sincerity I thank my film family and my own family first and foremost everyone in this room and the AFI important to our future and to our past if I thanked everyone who contributed ly importantly over the years we would be here til Miley Cyrus's AFI Award as a little kid in a sometimes hard place I went to the movies as often as I could movies making them seeing them is not something that could ever lose its pleasure for me that that puts them on a short list of things that eternally give me joy love family food movies and cancellation I could go on all night but you know the idea you get it good night moon good night stars I'll see you on the set and the beach and in the kitchen and that the movies [Applause]

Channel: American Film Institute

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Length: 3min 0sec (180 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 07 2010