Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Coming this fall, Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema and Cyperpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema will be featured as the museum's two new marquee exhibitions as part of PST Art. Learn more at AcademyMuseum.org Color in Motion , investigates the role of color in film, from the technological advancements that made its use possible, to the ways filmmakers use color as a storytelling tool, to its psychological impact on audiences. Cyberpunk examines the global impact and lasting influence of the science fiction subgenre cyberpunk on film culture. -Credits- Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema and Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema are among more than 70 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit pst.art. Generous support also provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture. Additional support provided by Emma Koss. The Cyberpunk Mixed Reality Experience is made possible thanks to Magnopus as well as Epic Games and Metastage. Academy Museum Digital Engagement Platform sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Technology solutions generously provided by Christie®. Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.

What does a casting director look for when casting an action film? Join the Academy Museum in a conversation with casting director Sarah Finn known for the The Avengers (2012), Iron Man (2008), Thor (2011), and more on July 26th at noon. Explore Finn's path to a career in casting, elements of casting, and revisit her marvelous projects. Reserve tickets: https://bit.ly/3LBhRus

Join us on Sunday, July 21, from 4:30–7pm for an evening of Sci-Fi and Fantasy movie trivia in collaboration with Cinephile! A limited number of tickets are still available, so grab yours now: https://bit.ly/3SgAg3w Member tickets are just $10, while member guests can join for $20. We’re providing complimentary wine, beer, and snacks, and our friends from Vidiots are back to host a round of trivia—it’s going to be epic! Purchase the Cinephile card game at the Academy Museum Store and receive $5 off your trivia ticket. Can’t make it? The game is available for purchase, so you can make every night trivia night! Not a member? Click here to purchase a membership: https://bit.ly/3S9xXPF

"First, you need to know something about them. The beautiful ones. The flawless four. Everyone wanted to be them. You know them. They went to your school too." For the 25th anniversary of JAWBREAKER, we gathered Julie Benz, Judy Greer, Rebecca Gayheart, Darren Stein, and Trixie Mattel to relive this iconic teenage dream. #AcademyMuseumScreenings

Join us in the education studio on Saturdays through Aug 17 to learn about how sound designers create and fill a film’s soundscape, encompassing all that we hear in a movie theater. This weekend, in the Fantasy workshop, we will practice creating new sounds for fictional or animated worlds. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4bMoswO

Join us in the Ted Mann Theater for a very special culmination and screening of short films and a panel conversation with the filmmakers of the Promise Workshop cohort of 2024. Learn more & Tickets: https://bit.ly/4d2I152 Academy Museum education programs are supported by Melina and Eric Esrailian, Kathy Fields and Garry Rayant, Miryam and Robert Knutson, The James Irvine Foundation, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, Chandra Wilson, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Join us for a screening of HACKERS (1995) on Saturday, July 20th accompanied by a pre-screening conversation with author Claire L. Evans, HACKERS producer Jeff Kleeman, and architect and filmmaker Liam Young, moderated by Academy Museum Vice President of Curatorial Affairs Doris Berger. Reserve tickets at AcademyMuseum.org. This screening precedes the museum’s upcoming exhibition, Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema, which is among more than seventy exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit pst.art.

Presenting THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1991) on Wednesday, July 17 at 7:30pm. Special guest introduction by makeup artist Kevin Haney. https://bit.ly/4f2eGcS Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia are pitch-perfect as the morbidly affectionate Morticia and Gomez Addams, with able support from Christopher Lloyd as the bug-eyed stranger who may be the long-lost Fester, and Christina Ricci as Wednesday. Ruth Myers was nominated for her gorgeously Gothic costumes, and Anthony Cortino, Fern Buchner, Kathrine James, Kevin C. Haney, and Christopher C. Shihar were among the makeup artists and hairstylists who turned the cast into the spitting image of Addams’s iconic characters. 1991. 100 min. USA. Color. English. Rated PG-13. DCP.

Meet us on Friday, July 19, at 4:30pm for our Drop-In Workshop for Teens, inspired by our Shifting Perspectives: Vertical Cinema exhibition. In this workshop, teens can use their own devices or devices available in the education studio to film around the museum and edit what they’ve captured to create their own vertical cinema! Museum admission is free for youth ages 17 and under. Learn more and reserve tickets: https://bit.ly/3WeuEsS

On weekend afternoons this summer, visitors can experience a curated selection of home movies filmed in and around Los Angeles. Reserve tickets: https://bit.ly/3WijJyr Home movies are an essential part of our moving image heritage. The Academy Film Archive collects and conserves home movies, making them accessible to researchers, filmmakers, and the public. The Archive holds thousands of amateur and personal reels of diverse content, with emphasis on the motion picture industry, underrepresented communities, and Southern California.