Harry Potter Series Given Special Award from AFI

AFI has announced their nominees for their 2011 AFI Awards, and the “Harry Potter” series will be receiving a special award as it does not fit AFI’s criteria for other honorees:

AFI also gave “The Artist” and the “Harry Potter” franchise special
awards (AFI’s special kudos recognize films that don’t meet the org
general awards criteria, most notably that a production be primarily
American-generated).

You can read more of the article here.

You can watch the trailer showing AFI’s nominees for their 2011 awards here or below. Skip to the very end for a very nice juxtaposition of the Trio in “Sorcerer’s/Philosopher’s Stone” and then at the end of “Deathly Hallows: Part 2.”