“Worked with Billy Wilder, who paces constantly, has over-extravagant ideas, but is stimulating. He has humor – a kind of humor that sparks with mine.” - excerpt from Charles Brackett’s diary (1936) ...

A reporter pieces together the extravagant and mysterious life of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane in the feature directing debut of 26-year-old wunderkind Orson Welles. Having inherited a mining ...

The Academy presented a Careers in Film Summit in Atlanta, at SCADShow, in partnership with re:imagine/ATL, Savannah College of Art and Design Atlanta (SCAD), DeKalb Entertainment Commission, ...

Learn about careers in the Motion Picture Industry from working Academy members and film professionals as well as the skills, education and hard work required to achieve your dreams! This virtual ...

Join us at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures to celebrate the 2022 Nicholl Fellows and their winning screenplays. The 2022 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards and Live Read will ...

In light of the growing concerns surrounding coronavirus/COVID-19, and for the health and safety of our staff, members and guests around the world, the Academy and Academy Museum have decided to ...

The 49th Student Academy Awards Ceremony will take place on Thursday, October 20, at the David Geffen Theater in Los Angeles. That evening, the winners will receive their medal placements – gold, ...

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 ...

Lee won a Student Academy Award for this hour-long film, which he made as his master’s thesis for NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Monty Ross (who would go on to co-produce several of Lee’s features, ...

One of Welles’s most sheerly entertaining efforts, Touch of Evil is a sordid noir of gray morality and striking black-and-white images, photographed by Douglas Sirk regular Russell Metty, set to the ...

Special guests include filmmakers Charlie Ahearn, Frank Mouris, Jeanne Liotta, Bill Morrison, and Lisa Crafts; and archivists/preservationists Pamela Vizner (BB Optics), Heather Linville (Academy Film ...

Preceded by the short film Steamboat Willie (1928), with a post-screening dessert reception. Hosted by Academy President John Bailey and Oscar-nominated production designer Jeannine Oppewall. In ...