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Lincoln, Life of Pi among AFI top-10 films of year
LOS ANGELES -- Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden thriller Zero Dark Thirty, Steven Spielberg's Civil War epic Lincoln and Christopher Nolan's superhero tale The Dark Knight Rises are among the American Film Institute's top-10 movies of the year.
Also on the AFI top-10 announced Monday: Ben Affleck's Iran hostage-crisis drama Argo; Benh Zeitlin's low-budget hit Beasts of the Southern Wild; Quentin Tarantino's slavery saga Django Unchained; Tom Hooper's Victor Hugo musical Les Miserables; Ang Lee's shipwreck story Life of Pi; Wes Anderson's first-love romance Moonrise Kingdom; and David O. Russell's misfit love story Silver Linings Playbook.
The AFI also picked its top-10 television shows for the year: American Horror Story; Breaking Bad; Game Change; Game of Thrones; Girls; Homeland; Louie; Mad Men; Modern Family; and The Walking Dead.
Creative ensembles for the films and TV shows will be honoured Jan. 11 at a luncheon in Los Angeles.
-- The Associated Press
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition December 11, 2012 D2
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