Lauren Bacall became a movie star the moment she taught Humphrey Bogart how to whistle (“You just put your lips together and blow”) in “To Have and Have Not” (1944), her first film role at age 20.

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, ...

Awarded since 1931, the Academy’s Scientific and Technical Awards honor the individuals and companies whose discoveries and innovations have contributed in significant and lasting ways to motion ...

The Pasadena Tournament of Roses' annual Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game are long-time local traditions that are celebrated nationally via television broadcast on New Year's Day. Most of the titles in ...

Casablanca also won Academy Awards for Directing (Michael Curtiz) and Writing – Screenplay (Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch). For the first time, winners of the Best Supporting ...

The Greatest Show On Earth also won the Academy Award for Writing – Motion Picture Story (Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John, and Frank Cavett). High Noon was only the third movie to win for both ...

When he was a largely unproven 32-year-old directing his second big movie, Francis Ford Coppola feared the studio might replace him. As it turned out, he needn’t have worried. The Godfather (1972) ...

The Sting also won Academy Awards for Art Direction-Set Decoration (Henry Bumstead and James Payne), Costume Design (Edith Head), Directing (George Roy Hill), Film Editing (William Reynolds), Music – ...

In the performance that would define his career, Marlon Brando plays Terry Malloy, a onetime prizefighter now resigned to backbreaking work as a longshoreman on docks ruled by a ruthless union boss ...

The Life of Emile Zola also won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Joseph Schildkraut) and Writing – Screenplay (Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg) The Awards ceremony was delayed ...

A Man for All Seasons also won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Paul Scofield), Color Cinematography (Ted Moore), Color Costume Design (Elizabeth Haffenden and Joan Bridge), Directing (Fred Zinnemann), ...

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 ...