Overall, the Academy Museum boasts what it calls the largest collection of film-related items in the world, including more than 13 million photographs, 67,000 posters and 137,000 pieces of production art.
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Featuring the work of one movie composer at a time, it is currently the realm of Hildur Guðnadóttir, who won the Academy Award for best musical score for 2019’s “Joker.” Here you’re invited to get lost in the music. In the Composer’s Inspiration sound chamber gallery, there is barely any light save a deep red emittance. Visitors can travel many avenues of cinema production from screenwriting, casting and costuming to sound mixing, animation and technological advancements. the Extra-Terrestrial" Stephanie Elam/CNN At the top, sprawls the Dolby Family Terrace under a glass dome.Į.T. The brand-new facility is capped by a 26-million-pound, concrete and glass sphere that spans 45,000 square feet and includes the 1,000-seat Geffen Theater. Now known as the Saban Building, it is home to the bulk of the collections and the 288-seat Ted Mann Theater. “We will rotate different stories through our core exhibition stories of cinema.”Ī combination of old and new, the museum inhabits an expanded footprint of the former May Company department store at Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles. “We are the only institution that is devoted to talking about exploring the arts and sciences of moviemaking,” said Bill Kramer, director and president of the Academy Museum. But the Academy Museum is now poised to offer its immersive love letter to the craft of filmmaking. Nearly a decade later, the opening was delayed by the pandemic. But it wouldn’t be until 2012 when the museum began to take shape.
The idea has existed for just about as long as the Academy, which was founded in 1927. In fact, the path to making the museum a reality was a long one. The gala’s co-chair roster was extensive and included the likes of Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann, Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner, Chloë Sevigny, Leonardo DiCaprio, Keke Palmer, Lily Collins, and a handful more.Ruby slippers from the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz." Stephanie Elam/CNNĬonsidering how Hollywood loves to celebrate its best and its brightest, perhaps it is a bit surprising that there wasn’t already a museum dedicated to moviemaking.
This time, the evening commenced not only to celebrate the iconic museum, raising $10 million but its 2022 honorees as well: actors Tilda Swinton (The Visionary Award) and Julia Roberts (inaugural Academy Museum Gala Icon Award), director, producer, and writer Sir Steve McQueen (Vantage Award), producer and Academy Museum trustee, Miky Lee (Pillar Award). The still somewhat novelty of the event seemed to evoke a shared excitedness among the collective of passionate film lovers, many of whom were on their way inside the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures for the first time (for some, it was a return visit following the Museum’s opening gala in September of last year). What began as an atypically gloomy day in Los Angeles pivoted for the better, just in time for the earliest of the night’s crowd to begin trickling down the red carpet. When hectic schedules are the norm, it’s a difficult feat, but for the second time, the now annual Academy Museum Gala rang in among the most star-studded gatherings of the year, dedicated to celebrating the art and history of film. You can count on your hand the number of events that can successfully usher in a hefty guest list conclusive of some of the most prominent figures in Hollywood.
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