New York Restoration Premiere, introduced by Jack Hill and hosted by indie-horror filmmaker William Lustig. Filmed in 1964 but not released theatrically until 1968, this cult classic marked the solo ...

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 ...

Special guests include Commissioner of the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment Cynthia Lopez, filmmakers Bill Morrison, Jimmy Picker, Luis Vale, Steven Siegel, and Phil Buehler; ...

In person: Jeffrey Vance and Michael Pogorzelski. Mary Pickford, “America’s Sweetheart,” was possibly the most powerful woman in Hollywood when she cast herself as a tenement spitfire in this silent ...

The 49th Student Academy Awards Ceremony will take place on Thursday, October 20, at the David Geffen Theater in Los Angeles. That evening, the winners will receive their medal placements – gold, ...

Learn about careers in the Motion Picture Industry from working Academy members and film professionals as well as the skills, education and hard work required to achieve your dreams! This virtual ...

The fourth 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 they ...

“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) ...

Castle took a rare venture into period horror for this 19th century-set chiller about a baron who inhabits a remote castle in far-off Gorslava, and whose eerie mask hides a ghoulish mystery. Veteran ...

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 ...

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 ...