#Film Academy Museum, Slammed for Initial Oversight, Will Debut Permanent Exhibition on Hollywood’s Jewish Founders in May

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When the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened in 2021, many Academy members and cultural critics were shocked and outraged to discover that one of the few marginalized groups whose contributions to Hollywood were not highlighted within its walls were Jews, especially because most of the founders of the business were Jewish. The leaders of…

#Academy Museum to Present Monthlong ‘Hollywood Chinese’ Screening Series

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Academy Museum to Present Monthlong ‘Hollywood Chinese’ Screening Series The Academy Museum is dedicating November to a monthlong reflection on the history of Chinese depictions in cinema. “Hollywood Chinese: The First 100 Years,” programmed by documentarian and longtime Academy member Arthur Dong, is a screening series of features and shorts – some classics, some obscurities…

#Here’s What to Know – /Film

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“#Here’s What to Know – /Film” “How could there be no film center in the global center of film?” That was a question Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos had when he first moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s and discovered that the entertainment capital of the world was sorely lacking, in his words, “a…

#Jaws Shark From Spielberg’s Classic Finds a New Home – /Film

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“#Jaws Shark From Spielberg’s Classic Finds a New Home – /Film” “Bruce,” the mechanical shark which gave a young Steven Spielberg and his crew so many problems on the set of 1975’s Jaws, has found a new home. The only surviving model of the Jaws shark was acquired by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and…