Personally while I think he probably deserves it for his earlier work and the significant accomplishments in film thats he's made during his life, im wondering if this is gonna inflate his head and make feel like his recent changes to his classic works is accepted and supported by all. Not that he's gonna change his minds about the changes if he didnt get the AFI, but Im thinking it could spur him on to do even more changes because it, in his mind, re-enforces that his changes are the right thing to do.