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Located in Hollywood, California at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, the Archive has a diverse range of moving image material.The Archive's collection comprises 107,000 titles and 230,000 separate items, including early American cinema, a vast collection of documentary films, filmed and taped interviews, amateur and private home movies of Hollywood legends, makeup and sound test ...
The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Special Awards to Kukan and Target for Tonight. [1] They have since been bestowed competitively each year, with the exception of 1946. [2]
The Archive maintains all Academy Award–winning films in the Best Picture and Documentary categories as well as many other Oscar-nominated films across categories. It also houses the personal collections of filmmakers such as Tacita Dean , Cecil B. DeMille , Barbara Hammer , Alfred Hitchcock , Jim Jarmusch , Penelope Spheeris , George Stevens ...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, often pronounced / ˈ æ m p æ s / AM-pass; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy's corporate ...
Often, a country has its own film archive to preserve the national audiovisual heritage. The International Federation of Film Archives comprises more than 150 institutions in over 77 countries and the Association of European Film Archives and Cinematheques is an affiliation of 49 European national and regional film archives founded in 1991.
Presidents of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (34 P) Pages in category "Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The 1928 film The Patriot is the only Best Picture nominee that is lost (about one-third is extant). [35] The Racket, also from 1928, was believed lost for many years until a print was found in Howard Hughes' archives. It has since been restored and shown on Turner Classic Movies. [36]
This is a list of Academy Award–winning films. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture , its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title. Competitive Oscars are separated from non-competitive Oscars (i.e. Honorary Award, Special Achievement Award, Juvenile Award); as such, any films that were awarded a non ...