Events

Academy Events Series

Bowling for Columbine

Oscar’s Docs, Part Five

October 19–November 23 – The Oscar’s Docs series features Academy Award-winning short subject and feature-length documentaries from the awards years 1998–2003, including “Thoth,” “Twin Towers,” “Bowling for Columbine,” “The Fog of War” and more.  Many screenings include panel discussions with the filmmakers.

2009-2010 Contemporary Documentaries Series

September 30–December 9 – The latest installment of the free Contemporary Documentary series showcases 2008 feature-length and short documentaries.  In November: “David McCullough: Painting with Words,” “Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts,” “Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh” and “Pray the Devil Back to Hell.”

 

Bay Area Events

A Century Ago: The Films of 1909 – The Stars Are Born (Bay Area)

December 6 –The Academy in association with the California Film Institute celebrates the year 1909 and its developmental contributions to motion pictures with a program of selected films with live musical accompaniment by Michael Mortilla.

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Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr

A Century Ago: The Films of 1909 – The Stars Are Born

November 30 – Films made a hundred years ago will be presented on a 1909 hand-cranked Power’s Model 6 Cameragraph motion picture machine with live musical accompaniment by Michael Mortilla.

A Century Ago: The First Films of Mary Pickford

December 1 – The Academy celebrates the filmmaking centennial of Mary Pickford with a selection of films from her first year, including “They Would Elope,” “The Trick That Failed,” “A Midnight Adventure” and others.

“The Prisoner of Zenda”

December 9 – In commemoration of what would have been Douglas Fairbanks Jr.’s 100th birthday, Oscar-winning visual effects artist Craig Barron leads an examination of the innovative photographic and sound effects used in creating 1937’s “The Prisoner of Zenda.”

 

Screenings

Every year the Academy Film Archive lends hundreds of prints to venues around the world. See a list of upcoming screenings in the U.S. and abroad. More