Preceded by the short film Steamboat Willie (1928), with a post-screening dessert reception. Hosted by Academy President John Bailey and Oscar-nominated production designer Jeannine Oppewall. In ...

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 ...

After the screening, co-writer Katie Dippold (The Heat, “Parks and Recreation,” “MADtv”) will participate in a discussion about adapting the screenplay from the 1984 original. About the film: ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A new installment 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 ...

Artist, poet and groundbreaking filmmaker Sergei Parajanov’s1968 masterpiece is a kaleidoscopic biography of the 18th century Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova. This dazzling epic is as far from a ...

“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) ...

Producer Sam Spiegel (The African Queen, Lawrence of Arabia) hired Orson Welles to both direct and star in this suspense thriller, written by Anthony Veiller and an uncredited John Huston. In one of ...

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 ...

Part of our ongoing series The Perfect Match: Hollywood Costume Collaborations, this double feature includes a conversation with longtime Paul Thomas Anderson collaborator and Oscar-winning costume ...