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 ...

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 ...

New York Restoration Premiere, introduced by Jack Hill and hosted by indie-horror filmmaker William Lustig. Filmed in 1964 but not released theatrically until 1968, this cult classic marked the solo ...

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 fourth 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 they ...

Castle took a rare venture into period horror for this 19th century-set chiller about a baron who inhabits a remote castle in far-off Gorslava, and whose eerie mask hides a ghoulish mystery. Veteran ...

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 ...

This event is SOLD OUT. There will be a stand-by line on the evening of the program. Stand-by numbers will be given out beginning at approximately 5:30 p.m. The number of STAND-BY tickets available ...

Welles directed himself and his estranged wife Rita Hayworth in this visually inventive noir classic. Welles plays Michael O’Hara, a young Irish sailor who becomes embroiled in a deadly romantic ...

Costume designers, like so many other great talents of the film industry, are often associated with one particular kind of film, but the Academy’s new Saturday series demonstrates the remarkable ...

“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) ...

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