About the Exhibition
The Academy Award is cinema’s preeminent honor. Administered by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy Award has been bestowed annually since 1929 to acknowledge artistic and technical achievements in cinema. Winners of an Academy Award receive a golden statuette, better known as the “Oscar.” This Academy Awards History gallery is a rare opportunity for visitors to encounter this iconic object up close. A spherical gallery draped in floor-to-ceiling gold contains 20 key Oscars beginning with Charles Rosher’s Cinematography Award for Sunrise (USA, 1927)—the first ever awarded—and ending with Ke Huy Quan’s statuette for Everything Everywhere All at Once (USA, 2022).
This gallery is curated by Vice President of Curatorial Affairs Doris Berger and Curatorial Consultant Nathalie Morris.
Dolby is the exclusive audio sponsor of this gallery.
Stories of Cinema is presented by PwC. Major funding is provided by Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman. Generous support is provided by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Ruderman Family Foundation, FotoKem, Barbara Roisman Cooper and Martin M. Cooper, Jocelyn R. Katz, John Ptak and Margaret Black, Lauren Shuler Donner, Randy E. Haberkamp, Kevin McCormick and A. Scott Berg, CHANEL, and John and Lacey Williams. Technology solutions generously provided by Panasonic and Sony Electronics Inc. Powered by Dolby. Academy Museum digital engagement platform sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
This gallery is located on Level 2 in the Wanda Gallery.