Eastwood, Al Gore and YouTube Deemed Significant
The American Film Institute on Wednesday detailed what it is calling the year's Moments of Significance, eight developments that impacted the worlds of TV and film. And they are:
-
Clint Eastwood's double whammy of
Flags of Our Fathers and
Letters from Iwo Jima
- The passing of filmmaker
Robert Altman
- The influence of documentaries such as
An Inconvenient Truth and
Iraq in Fragments
- The rise of YouTube
- The migration of TV news to this "Internet" thing
- The death of VHS
- The reaffirmation of a moral standard for television, as evidenced by Fox's decision to snuff the
O.J. Simpson special
- The Big Four networks fighting the FCC's indecency crackdown
No mention of Gwen Stefani's "Wind It Up" video.
