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 ...

There will be a STAND-BY line at the west doors (closest to Almont Dr.) with STAND-BY numbers given out at approximately 5:30 pm. The number of STAND-BY tickets available (if any) will be determined ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 conjunction with the International Documentary Association’s Getting Real ’16 conference, the Academy is pleased to present an evening dedicated to early documentary film adventures and discoveries ...

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, ...

The Choreography of Comedy: The Art of Eccentric Dance featured interviews and dance clips of our greatest Eccentric Dancers, including rare Nicholas Brothers home movies introduced by Tony Nicholas, ...

Producer Sam Spiegel (The African Queen, Lawrence of Arabia) hired Orson Welles to both direct and star in this suspense thriller, written by Anthony Veiller and an uncredited John Huston. In one of ...

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 ...

The most-viewed Polish film of all time, this medieval epic about the heroic campaign against the invading Knights of the Teutonic Order features mounted battles, political maneuverings and a tragic ...

The eighth in our series, curated by Academy Award nominee Gary Yershon, in which composers recall the creation of an Oscar-nominated score. At the height of his fame, suave silent film star George ...