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, ...

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 ...

A program of lectures, panels and hands-on workshops that will introduce students of the Information Studies field, collectors, scholars, filmmakers, cinephiles and the general public to aspects of ...

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 ...

A new installment in our series moderated by Academy Award nominee Gary Yershon, in which we invite Academy Award-winning composers to talk about their work alongside a screening of the film for which ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Bring It On, the Academy will host a virtual chat with the artists behind the movie. Hosted by director Peyton Reed. With special guests actors Kirsten Dunst, ...

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, ...

Watch the 8th Annual Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards and Table Read. This year’s ceremony and table read features selected excerpts from the five 2020 fellowship winning screenplays that ...

“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) ...