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Bob Daly to Step Down as Chair of AFI Board of Directors (EXCLUSIVE)

Variety · October 14, 2026 at 2:49 PM

Bob Daly to Step Down as Chair of AFI Board of Directors (EXCLUSIVE)

After 17 years of leadership, Bob Daly will step down as chair of the American Film Institute Board of Directors at the next trustee meeting on Wednesday, Oct.

21, Variety can reveal exclusively.

Daly, former Warner Bros. chair and co-CEO, joined the AFI Board in April 1981 and was named chair on Oct.

8, 2009, […]

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Bob Daly to Step Down as Chair of AFI Board of Directors (EXCLUSIVE)

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