The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has expanded its extensive Academy collection with new additions of costumes, film posters, conceptual art and more.
New acquisitions range from costumes featured in the Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once to conceptual art for E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Other new additions include more than 600 rare silent film posters, collections of producer Gale Anne Hurd, director Harold Ramis, filmmaker Gregg Araki and film scholar Kevin Brownlow and more than 150 hand-painted animation artworks dating, donated by Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw.
We are thrilled and honored to expand the Academys collection with these exceptional pieces, said Academy CEO Bill Kramer. To be housed at our archive, library and museum, these vital components of the filmmaking process highlight the collaborative disciplines that develop and produce the movies we love. They also demonstrate the Academys unique capacity to preserve the full range of film history formats. We are incredibly grateful to our donors for their remarkable gifts to the Academy and for their commitment to illuminating our film history.
See some of the new additions to the Academys collection below.
Jamie Lee Curtis in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Costume design drawings illustrated by Julio Martinez for Diana Ross in Mahogany (1975)
Animation cel from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Steven Spielberg Animation Collection Sally Field and Norma Rae Producers to Kick Off Women in Films 50th Anniversary Screening Series Academy-Award-winning actor Sally Field and Norma Rae producers will kick off Women in Film, Los Angeles (WIF)s 50th Anniversary Screening Series with a viewing and discussion panel surrounding the film.
The WIFs Screening Series will honor monumental film and television series made by women throughout the past 50 years, tackling varying film and TV projects by the decade to commemorate women and underrepresented genders who have worked both in front of and behind the camera.
WIF has been working tirelessly for the last fifty years to increase representation and parity for women in Hollywood,said Kirsten Schaffer, CEO of WIF. We can think of no greater way to celebrate this milestone anniversary than to shine a light on amazing collaborations between women in our industry over the past five decades.
The series launches on June 29 at Vidiots in L.A. with a screening of Norma Rae, followed by a discussion with Field and producers Tamara Asseyev and Alexandra Rose to discuss the films legacy and impact. Lake Bell, WIF board member, will lead the discussion.
Were excited to launch this series with the trailblazing Sally Field and Norma Rae, a film that resonates with both the moment of its era and our current times, said Bell.