EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — With the 80th Golden Globe Awards wrapped and the SAG Award nominations just revealed, the 2023 award season has kicked into high gear.

On Friday, the buzz will continue as this past year's high-profile films and television series will be honored at the annual AFI Awards private luncheon at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills.

It's an event favored by the entertainment community for its informal intimacy and inclusive acknowledgment of excellence.

"'Awards' is a little bit of a misnomer with the AFI because everyone is a winner. Everyone is an honoree," said Bob Gazzale, president and CEO of the American Film Institute. "It's community. In other words, we're all in this together."

This year's list includes 10 films and TV series deemed culturally and artistically representative of this past year's "achievements in the art of the moving image" — to put it in AFI terms.

An additional honoree, "The Banshees of Inisherin," was selected in a "special award" category designated for works that fall outside AFI's more domestic criteria. Past recipients of the special honor include "Roma," "The King's Speech" and "Slumdog Millionaire."

Colin Farrell, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan, Martin McDonagh, Brendan Gleeson, Graham Broadbent and Peter O'Brien accept the award for "The Banshees of Inisherin" during the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Tuesday. (Rich Polk/NBC via AP)

The intimate lunch affair serves 200-225 people, as Gazzale explained. With just the honorees in attendance, the AFI gets a chance to show its appreciation directly to the industry at large.

After everyone is welcomed inside the Beverly Hills venue, the nonprofit — with help from its selected jury panels — explains to the room why they believe each project is a culturally significant work, followed by a 90-second excerpt from the film or series. As Gazzale would say, regarding each clip that's shown, "You can't do that on television" — given broadcast's time restraints.

Here are the AFI movies of the year:

• "Avatar: The Way of Water"
• "Elvis"
• "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
• "The Fabelmans"
• "Nope"
• "She Said"
• "Tár"
• "Top Gun: Maverick"
• "The Woman King"
• "Women Talking"

AFI television programs of the year:

• "Abbott Elementary"
• "The Bear"
• "Better Call Saul"
• "Hacks"
• "Mo"
• "Pachinko"
• "Reservation Dogs"
• "Severance"
• "Somebody Somewhere"
• "The White Lotus"

And this year's juries — one each for film and television — include:

• Artists W. Kamau Bell, Colman Domingo, Siân Heder, Brad Ingelsby, Marti Noxon and Mario Van Peebles
• Film historians L.S. Kim, Akira Mizuta Lippit, Leonard Maltin and Robert Thompson
• Members of the AFI Board of Trustees
• Film critics Janet Maslin and Shawn Edwards from the African American Film Critics Association
• Film and television critics from outlets such as the LA Times, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Salon, TV Guide and The Washington Post

"What we wanted to do was ensure that we had expert opinions from various different points of view," said Gazzale. "So it's not a peer vote, like the SAG Awards or the Oscars. It's not a critics group. It's a perspective through a prism to say that, from all angles, 'Here's what the AFI believes.'"

Friday's luncheon will then conclude with what the AFI calls a benediction.

"It's a toast from somebody whose work has stood the test of time," said Gazzale. "So over the years, it has been Mel Brooks, Clint Eastwood, Norman Lear, Angela Lansbury. Last year, Morgan Freeman paid tribute to Sidney Poitier."

Regarding other ceremonies this season, Gazzale said he'll be tuning in — but not necessarily making predictions.

"I watch every award program to really ensure that AFI's place remains true to our belief that AFI Awards is not about competition, but community," said Gazzale. "This is not only an AFI belief, but a personal belief: They’re all our children. We do not separate [the films and TV series] as 'best.' We say, 'They're all worthy.'"

For a look at past AFI Awards honorees, please visit here.