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 ...

In person: Jeffrey Vance and Michael Pogorzelski. Mary Pickford, “America’s Sweetheart,” was possibly the most powerful woman in Hollywood when she cast herself as a tenement spitfire in this silent ...

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 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting is an international screenwriting competition established to identify and encourage talented new screenwriters. The 2024 Nicholl competition is closed ...

Penelope Spheeris returns to the punk scene she first documented in 1981 and finds new bands equally as inflammatory as their predecessors. The powerful final chapter in Spheeris’s Decline of Western ...

An original storytelling experience exploring the intersection of documentary film, investigative journalism and live performance. In collaboration with the International Documentary Association, the ...

“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) ...

Spike Lee's first feature, shot in 12 days on a budget of $175,000, was a critical and commercial dynamo that put its filmmaker on the map and initiated a new era of African-American cinema. Tracy ...

The 27-year-old Welles followed up his groundbreaking Citizen Kane with an equally ambitious but even more mature project: an adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s 1918 novel about the decline of a ...

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 Academy is sponsoring the 13th Annual LA Skins Fest, Nov 19-24. Please join us for the Short Films Series and Reception at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theatre in Hollywood, on Friday, November 22nd ...

Charlie Chaplin’s “Little Tramp” character was once the most widely recognized figure in the entire world. Discover the first-ever filmed images of the Tramp as film historian and preservationist ...