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 ...

Pre-screening presentation by Academy governor and Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth Carter and 3D designer Julia Koerner. Original costumes from Black Panther were on display, plus hands-on costume ...

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 ...

“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) ...

In a tumble-down Memphis hotel run by rock ‘n roll royal Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (with bellboy Cinqué Lee, brother of Spike Lee, in tow) three stories unfold: a pair of Elvis-obsessed Japanese tourists ...

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 ...

As part of the City of Beverly Hills Centennial Celebration, the Academy presents tours of the Margaret Herrick Library and a photo exhibition. A Closer Look: Exploring the Academy's Fairbanks Center ...

In this 1940 classic, Barbara Stanwyck stars as a shoplifting New Yorker who after a series of mishaps, ends up spending a family Christmas at prosecutor Fred MacMurray’s Indiana home. With impeccable ...

Spike Lee made one of his most daring films with this 2000 comedy-drama, a scathing look at racial stereotypes in popular culture. Damon Wayans stars as Pierre Delacroix, an uptight, Ivy ...

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 ...

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 ...