Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures opened Sept.30th, with the largest film-collection in the world

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures' 50,000 square feet of gallery space, opened with the largest film-collection in the world, September 30 2021.

By Karen Ostlund                                         

1927 Oscar statuette for "Cinematography on Sunrise" to Charles Rosher.

The Academy Museum Of Motion Picture Art and Sciences has been collecting film-related  items since 1927 and has over 13 million photographs, 250,000 films, 71,000 screenplays, 67,000 posters and 137,000 pieces of production art.
                                                                                

September 30th 2021, 10 AM, the official ribbon-cutting ceremony of  Academy Museum of Motion Pictures kicked off at The Walt Disney Company Piazza.
Among the speakers were Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Director and President of the Academy Museum Bill Kramer, AMPAS CEO Dawn Hudson, AMPAS President David Rubin, Chief Artistic and Programming officer of AMPAS museum Jacqueline Stewart and Board Chair of AMPAS Museum and Co-CEO of Netflix Ted Sarandos.

                                                                               

Taron Egerton’s costume, as Elton John, in the 2019 film “Rocketman”.

The Academy Museum was constructed by AMPAS (oscars.org) and dedicated to the history, arts, sciences, and cultural impact of the film industry. It occupies a 300,000-square-foot campus at the intersection of Wilshire Blvd. and Fairfax Ave. at 6067 Wilshire blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036.
The two buildings feature exhibition, special event spaces, a Shirley Temple educational studio, Café Fanny’s, a museum store, along with two movie theaters, 1000 seats David Geffen theatre and 288 seats Ted Mann theatre, both designed by Italian architect Renzi Piano. The both theatres will be the home to a year-round slate of screenings, film series, member programs, panel discussions, and other events.                            

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

The 3-floor exhibit “Stories of Cinema” features galleries devoted to Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Bruce Lee, Thelma Schoonmaker, The Wizard of OZ, Citizen Kane, Pedro Almodovar and Real Women have curves.                                                               

Prop from the movie "Jaws"

In addition “Stories of Cinema” features also costume design, production design, sound, visual effects, animation, cinematography and props from films including Jaws, Star Wars, North by Northwest, Black Panther, Alien, The Big Lebowski, Blade Runner, Toy Story, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Mad Max Fury Road and more.

In three of the temporary exhibit spaces, visitors will discover a Richard Balzer Collection of pre-cinematic technology including 1821-91 magic lanterns, peep-shows and praxino-scopes.

                                                                               

- The Pixar Toy Story 3D Zoetrope in Warner Bros. gallery features a giant zoetrope of the characters of  the Toy Story film.

-Japanese film-artist and animator Hayao Miyazaki has put together a retrospective of his 6-decade career at  the Jeffrey Katzenberg Gallery in form of original image-boards, character designs and story boards together with posters.

                                                                      

“Backdrop: An Invisible Art” (September 30-October 2022) spotlights a famous backdrop painting "Mt. Rushmore"  from Alfred Hitchcock’s movie "North by Northwest (1959)" at the 34-foot double-height Hurd Gallery space at the Academy Museum.
Tickets at academymuseum.org