Spike Lee's first feature, shot in 12 days on a budget of $175,000, was a critical and commercial dynamo that put its filmmaker on the map and initiated a new era of African-American cinema. Tracy ...

An original storytelling experience exploring the intersection of documentary film, investigative journalism and live performance. In collaboration with the International Documentary Association, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the week leading up to the 94th Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a series of public programs celebrating this year’s nominees in the Animated Feature Film, ...

Imgine the opening credits of Star Wars without John Williams’ theme. Try and think of Lawrence of Arabia without Maurice Jarre’s sweeping score. And where would the Spaghetti Western be without Ennio ...

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; ...

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, ...

“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) ...

Vincent Price plays a prison pathologist who discovers that the source of fear in the human body is a spinal-cord arthropod that he dubs “The Tingler.” The only cure for it? Scientifically speaking: ...

One moment, one event — three completely different outcomes. From esteemed director Krzysztof Kieślowski comes a film examining the effects of even the smallest of choices. A young medical student’s ...

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 ...