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1. Film -- American Film Institute
   - On June 15th, 1999, the American Film Institute (AFI) unveiled its list of the 50 greatest screen legends - a countdown of the top 25 men and top 25 women. Audrey Hepburn was No. 3 on the list of greatest female screen legends of all time.
2. Film
   The Sundance Film Festival is the premier showcase for U.S. and international independent film. Held each January in and around Park City, Utah, the Festival is a core program of Sundance Institute, a nonprofit cultural organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981. Presenting 120 dramatic and documentary feature-length films in seven distinct categories, and 80 short films each year, the Sundance Film Festival has introduced American audiences to some of the most innovative films of the past two decades, including "sex, lies and videotape," "Clerks," "Smoke Signals," "Boys Don't Cry," "American Splendor," "Napoleon Dynamite," "Born into Brothels," and "Me and You and Everyone We Know." Beyond the streets of Park City, the official Website of the Sundance Film Festival, http://www.sundance.org/, shares the Festival experience with a global audience through the streaming of short films and filmmaker interviews, combined with current news and box office information. Photo: NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060117/NYTU041NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000306/PRNLOGOAP Archive: http://photoarchive.ap.org/PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.comPR Newswire
3. Robert Redford -- Sundance Institute
   Additional Resource: Robert Redford is a board member for the Gaylord A. Nelson Environmental Endowment at the Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin. The institute's Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment has an excellent website containing research summaries, educational materials, and extensive links.
4. Toni Collette -- National Institute
   Born in Sydney, Australia, on Nov. 1, 1972, Toni Collette left school at age 16 to enroll at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts. After completing only 18 months of a three-year program, she was cast in her first film, The Efficiency Expert (1992), opposite Anthony Hopkins.
5. Lionel Richie -- Tuskegee Institute
   Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr., was born on June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, AL, and grew up on the campus of the Tuskegee Institute, where most of his family had worked for two generations prior. While attending college there, Richie joined the Commodores, who went on to become the most successful act on the Motown label during the latter half of the \'70s. Richie served as a saxophonist, sometime vocalist, and songwriter, penning ballads like "Easy," "Three Times a Lady," and "Still" (the latter two became the group\'s only number one pop hits). Although the Commodores maintained a democratic band structure through most of their chart run, things began to change when the \'70s became the \'80s. In 1980, Richie wrote and produced country-pop singer Kenny Rogers\' across-the-board number one smash "Lady," and the following year, Richie\'s duet with Diana Ross, "Endless Love" (recorded for the Brooke Shields film of the same title), became the most successful single in Motown history, topping the charts for a stunning nine weeks. With the media\'s attention now focused exclusively on Richie, tensions within the Commodores began to mount, and before the end of 1981, Richie decided to embark on a solo career.
6. Alfred Kinsey -- Kinsey Institute
   Alfred Charles Kinsey was a zoologist at Indiana University who gained fame for his pioneering research on human sexual behavior. Educated at Bowdoin College and Harvard University, he joined the staff of Indiana University in 1920. During the 1920s and '30s he became an expert on gall wasps and published high school biology texts, but in 1938 he began researching human sexuality. Kinsey and his research team interviewed thousands of men and women, then published their findings in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). Known popularly as The Kinsey Report, his first book met with mostly positive responses and became a best-seller, and Kinsey used the profits to finance the Kinsey Institute of Sex Research at Indiana University in 1947. By the time his second book was published... he had come under fire from religious and political groups.
7. Smithsonian -- Smithsonian Institution
   The secretary of the Smithsonian Institution is its chief executive officer. The secretary is appointed by the board of regents, which consists of the vice president of the United States, the chief justice of the United States, three members of the U.S. Senate, three members of the U.S. House of Representatives, and nine private citizens. By tradition, the chief justice is chancellor of the Smithsonian.
8. Kinsey Reports -- Kinsey Institute
   Despite these limitations, the Kinsey reports served as significant benchmarks in the quantitative study of sexuality in U.S. society and their findings contributed to an era of more relaxed attitudes concerning sexual behavior. In this sense, the Kinsey reports contributed to what has been termed the Sexual Revolution, or reconfiguration of sexual mores after the Second World War. Kinsey's research and other studies by the Institute for Sex Research created and continue to create controversy in the larger society, particularly among conservative social forces. A Congressional committee accused the Institute of contributing to an alleged Communist takeover of the United States and accused the Rockefeller Foundation of "un-American" behavior, resulting in the latter's decision to withdraw funding for the Institute.
9. Pixar -- Films
   Pixar has had incredible success with this technology, outsourcing to blockbuster productions such as Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings. Besides creating unforgettable images, Pixar's technology ... has its practical side: facilitating the manipulation, editing, and reuse of animated images, which helps to reduce person-hours and film production expenses.
10. Comedy Film -- Comedy Film Festival
    Realized by TÜRSAK Foundation and sponsored by Bonus Card, the Bonus Card 6th International Comedy Films Festival will meet the cinema lovers in Istanbul between November 23-29, 2007. Featuring about 40 titles in its program this year, the festival will start with an opening ceremony in Beşiktaş Cultural Center at November 23.

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