In the week leading up to the 94th Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a series of public programs celebrating this year’s nominees in the Animated Feature Film, ...

American character actor Jack Oakie's career spanned vaudeville, Broadway musicals, radio, television and 87 films, most of them comedies or musical comedies made in the 1930s and 1940s. His work ...

The David Lynch Collection arrived at the Academy Film Archive in 2007 from filmmaker David Lynch. The collection consists of approximately 660 items that includes 16mm and 35mm film prints, videos, ...

The 50th Student Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Tuesday, October 24, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. That evening, the winners will receive their medal placements – gold, ...

Born in Mississippi and raised in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, Burnett is an independent filmmaker whose work has been praised for its portrayal of the African-American experience. He wrote, ...

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In the performance that would define his career, Marlon Brando plays Terry Malloy, a onetime prizefighter now resigned to backbreaking work as a longshoreman on docks ruled by a ruthless union boss ...

The 2024 Nicholl competition is closed to entries. Register an online account (returning entrants should sign in to their existing one) to be able to: Enter the competition (when open for submissions) ...

One of the largest collections of World War II era short films held outside government archives, the Academy War Film Collection contains over 230 unique titles designed to educate, encourage, and ...

Richard Brooks was an Academy Award® winning screenwriter and director whose career spanned five decades. His most well-known films include “In Cold Blood” (1967), “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (1958), “The ...

The Academy Film Archive is home to one of the most extensive and diverse motion pictures collections in the world. The hundreds of collections housed at the Archive include Academy Award® nominated ...