Stars Turn Out at the AFI Awards Luncheon for the Best Film and TV of 2018

Heading into Golden Globes weekend, awards campaigners are taking every opportunity to put their contenders in front of cameras and media.

One of the most civilized events is the annual American Film Institute Awards lunch, which is more relaxed and convivial than most gatherings, because, as AFI president Bob Gazzale always points out, everybody’s a winner.The first week of January each year, top players involved with the 10 movie and 10 TV winners know all they have to do is comfortably socialize for an hour or so, eat their salmon, and applaud 20 clips.

Actually, this year there were 21, as the film jury gave Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma,” which was ineligible as a foreign-language film, a special award.TV jury chief Rich Frank said his team had to sift through more than 500 scripted series.

“They were tough to narrow down,” he said.

Among the lucky winners was “Better Call Saul” star Bob Odenkirk,

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