Mar30 JODHAA AKBAR India1

Apr19 IRVAR India5

REPERAGES select

Apr5 MEMORIES OF MURDER Bong7Neon

May21 MADONNA TRUTH OR DARE BranchSelects1

Apr6 CAPOTE OscarSundays5SERIES HERO

For Museum Members

Apr16 CENTRAL STATION BranchSelects2MHL

Jack Goes Boating with Love Liza

May7 DIE HARD BranchSelects2PC

May14 FIFTH ELEMENT BranchSelects4

6 Honda Color Correction (reel 1 cue 10)

May2 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN Spotlight2MHL

For Kids and Families

Apr26 DOLPHIN TALE 2 FamilyMatinees7

May28 GREAT ESCAPE BranchSelects1

Apr9 DAY OF THE LOCUST BranchSelects1MHL

Apr2 AMORESPERROS BranchSelects1

Apr7 MAYA DARPAN India2FilmHeritageFoundation

Apr25 Avail Space Nao John Waters

May10 WALLE FamilyMatinees1MHL

Demi Moore looking at herself in bathroom mirror

The Substance

The Little Mermaid

Apr12 NAUSICAA FamilyMatinees2GKIDS

Jan10 GHOST IN THE SHELL Cyberpunk1MHL

Kanchenjungha

Rope

May4 RISE OF SKYWALKER MayThe4th2MHL

May4 EMPIRE STRIKES BACK MayThe4th1MHL

May25 MASTER OscarSundays1MHL

May18 DOUBT OscarSundays1MHL

May11 CHARLIE WILSONS WAR OscarSundays1MHL

The Big Lebowski with Along Came Polly

May9 CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON Chinese6MHL

May3 HERO Chinese13

May3 MARCH OF THE PENGUINS FamilyMatinees2MHL

Apr27 ALMOST FAMOUS Hoffman2MHL

Apr23 ROGER AND ME BranchSelects6

Apr21 SAVAGES Hoffman1MHL

Apr20 MAGNOLIA OscarSundays1

Apr17 HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS Chinese3MHL

Apr13 NOBODYS FOOL OscarSundays1

Apr11 JU DOU Chinese2FilmMovement

Apr10 RAISE THE RED LANTERN Chinese1

Apr24 LUST CAUTION Chinese2MHL

Apr28 IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE Chinese2MHL

May31 ELEMENTAL FamilyMatinees1MHL

May5 OWNING MAHOWNY Hoffman1

May19 SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK Hoffman1MHL

May24 SIMPLE LIFE Chinese7DistributionWorkshop

May22 BETTER DAYS Chinese3MHL

Apr18 FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE Chinese17FilmMovement

Feb8 Ex-Machina Cyberpunk

May23 BARBIE Spotlight1MHL

Apr15 BARKING DOGS NEVER BITE Bong1

Apr3 HOST Bong2Mangnolia

Mar31 MOTHER Bong8

Mar29 DILWALE DULHANIA India1YashRajFilms

Jan31 NIGHT RAIDERS Cyberpunk

Feb3 SLEEP DEALER Cyberpunk1

ROBOCOP Cyberpunk1

terminator cyberpunk

Jan23 NEPTUNE FROST Cyberpunk2MHL

A still taken from The Matrix (1999). Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Photo originally appeared in Cinefantastique magazine. 

The Matrix (1999)

BLADE RUNNER Cyberpunk6PC

EXISTENZ Cyberpunk2MHL

Apr30 SULLIVANS TRAVELS BranchSelects4

May29 MOST WANTED MAN Hoffman1MHL

May24 ICE AGE MELTDOWN FamilyMatinees6

Apr19 FERNGULLY Matinees5

May4 PHANTOM MENACE MayThe4th1

Screenings

Explore our recurring film series, like  Academy Branch Selects and Oscar Sundays, as well as our Limited Series and Spotlights, featuring films and filmmakers from around the world.

2-day symposium & month-long film-series


Screenings & Series

This series was programmed to accompany the museum’s exhibition Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema.

Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema – Encore Presentations 

2025 Oscars Screenings

Guest programmed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur of the Film Heritage Foundation, this series showcases films that demonstrate the importance of color in Indian cinema. 

Emotion in Color: A Kaleidoscope of Indian Cinema 

A limited series examining the artistry of genre-bending master Bong Joon Ho whose films have played an integral role in the growth of contemporary Korean cinema.

Director's Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho - Film Series

This series, guest programmed by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Janet Yang, spotlights Chinese-language films that were submitted to the Oscars’ International Feature Film category over the last thirty-five years.

Raising the Lantern: A Celebration of Chinese-Language Cinema 

A screening series celebrating the remarkable versatility of Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman with an eclectic variety of his roles.

Something Mysterious: The Art of Philip Seymour Hoffman

Is The Force strong with you? Join the Academy Museum as we explore the galaxy for a Star Wars–inspired May the 4th Celebration! 

May the 4th Celebration 2025

Special Screenings at the Academy Museum 

Spotlights 

Branches of the Academy have selected films that speak to the achievements of their discipline.

Branch Selects

Films for families of all ages, Saturdays at 11am.

Family Matinees 

On the last Saturday of every month, the museum's Family Matinee is an accommodative screening where we offer open captioning, keep the theater dimly lit, and maintain a lower volume specifically for neurodivergent viewers.

Accessible Screenings

A monthly series showcasing experimental and independent film and media.

Available Space

This ongoing series celebrates films that have been honored at the Academy Awards

Oscar® Sundays 

As early as the silent era, filmmakers employed the flashback, a break in linear narrative, to convey something from the past and evoke memory.

I Seem to Recall...Memories and Dreams in Cinema

Paul Newman (1925–2008) contained multitudes. He was an audacious filmmaker, devoted husband, political activist, race car enthusiast, forward-thinking philanthropist, cookbook author, and one of the most celebrated public figures of the 20th century. 

The Roles He Played: Paul Newman at 100

The Academy Museum’s second celebration of newly preserved and restored films presents work from the Academy Film Archive as well as other archives, studios, distributors, foundations, and independent filmmakers from around the globe.

Present Past: A Celebration of Film Preservation

Born Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone on September 20, 1934, Sophia Loren has an unrivaled career both in her native Italy and in Hollywood, appearing in nearly one hundred films over seven decades. 

Sophia Loren: La Diva di Napoli

This screening series, programmed to accompany the museum’s exhibition Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema, celebrates the vibrant and indelible impact of the Technicolor process on Hollywood films and beyond.  

The Wonders of Technicolor

By the end of the 1920s, the movie business in the United States had become a studio system. Eight studios—Universal, Fox (later Twentieth Century Fox), Paramount, United Artists, Warner Bros., Columbia, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and RKO

Hollywoodland: The Origins of the Studios

Celebrate Godzilla’s 70th birthday with a movie marathon and kaiju surprises!

Godzilla-Thon!

The films in this series offer a glimpse into the varied experiences Latine/x adolescents and young adults face, unearthed through the universal experience of self-discovery.

Hasta La Raíz | K'a Pa Ruxe'el | Até A Raiz | Nan Rasin Lan: To the Root

On the occasion of Baldwin’s centenary, the Academy Museum presents a series of films adapted from his literary works alongside documentaries that spent time with Baldwin while he was alive and posthumous pieces that reflect on his remarkable legacy.

James Baldwin at the Movies

“We might wonder if the movies have ever really depicted Los Angeles,” muses the voiceover in Los Angeles Plays Itself , filmmaker Thom Andersen’s epic 2003 essay film that weaves hundreds of clips from cinema history into a rich tapestry 

Summer in the City: Los Angeles, Block by Block

Lauded by Martin Scorsese as “the only independent filmmakers who managed to work within the system and still get away with making truly experimental films,” Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger  shared an artistic collaboration across 24 films.

Tellers of Tales: The Films of Powell & Pressburger

A screening series celebrating las mujeres of Mexico’s Golden Age of cinema who define the collective memory of this two-decade period in the country’s film history.  

Damas de la Pantalla: The Women of Mexico's Época de Oro

Coined by film scholar B. Ruby Rich in a 1992 piece for The Village Voice, the concept of New Queer Cinema is less a conscious effort by a group of artists with an aesthetic synchronicity and more a watershed moment in independent cinema

Full of Pleasure: The Beginnings of New Queer Cinema

Cult film favorites that first found their fans in the midnight hour.     

In the Midnight Hour: A History of Late-Night Movies 

Born Fania Borach on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1891 to middle-class Jewish parents, young Fanny Brice’s drive to perform was nurtured by the patrons at her mother’s saloon on Lafayette Street, 

Funny Girls: Fanny Brice and Her Legacy

윤여정: Youn Yuh-jung

Considered one of the great American screen actors of the 20th century, Marlon Brando (1924–2004) cut his teeth on the Stanislavski system, which he learned from beloved New York–based acting teacher Stella Adler

Forever A Contender: A Centennial Tribute to Marlon Brando

Weekend With… is a series that offers audiences the chance to dive deep into the work of a filmmaker, actor, or creative over the course of one weekend. 

Weekend With... Patricia Rozema

Highlighting figures long considered icons by women who love women.

The Sewing Circle: Sapphic Icons of Early Hollywood 

A film series weaving together the tapestry of African experiences, triumphs, dreams, and realities. 

Echoes of Africa 

A screening series considering natural disasters through our planet’s primary elements—earth, wind, water, and fire 

Beware the Elements! Natural Disasters on Film

Established in 1988, the National Film Registry is a growing list of films deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” by the Librarian of Congress. 

Works of Enduring Importance: 35 Years of the National Film Registry

The first retrospective series of Song Kang-ho, celebrating his dynamic career and his genuine love for cinema. 

 송강호: Song Kang-ho

During the week between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, the Academy Museum invites you to experience our state-of-the-art Dolby 3D projection systems with classic and contemporary films shot in and/or intended for projection in 3D. 

3D-cember! 

“Ennio Morricone was more than one of the world’s great soundtrack composers—he was one of the world’s great composers, period. 

Ennio Morricone: Essential Scores from a Movie Maestro

A retrospective screening series accompanying the Academy Museum’s first-of-its-kind exhibition, John Waters: Pope of Trash

John Waters: Pope of Trash

As the grandmother of the French New Wave, filmmaker Agnès Varda’s (1928–2019) influence on cinema history cannot be overstated

Enter the Vardaverse: Afternoons in Paris 

A unique window into the last five years of cinema, Italian style.

New Italian Cinema / Nuovo Cinema Italiano

The influential Japanese filmmaker and screenwriter Yasujirō Ozu (小津 安二郎) was born in Tokyo, on December 12, 1903. Before his death exactly 60 years later, on December 12, 1963

Yasujirō Ozu in Color: The Final Six Films

In conjunction with Turner Classic Movies (TCM), the Academy Museum is launching a series of silent film screenings. Historian David Pierce has concluded that only 26% of American silent features survive in complete form

Silent Sundays

This summer, the Academy Museum presents perhaps the first-ever retrospective of this magnificent hybrid form—musical spectacles with the high-wire immediacy of documentary.

Summer of Music: Concert Films 1959–2020

Workshop activities for all ages programmed by the Academy Museum Teen Council. 

Teen Council Powered Workshops: Summer of Music!

 For Yale pre-med student Richard Emerson Smith (1922–2014), a routine library trip would lead to his encounter with Paint, Powder and Makeup, a book that altered the course of his career from dentistry to the art of transforming actors through makeup.

Dick Smith: The Godfather of Makeup 

A screening series of contemporary films directed by Korean women.

A New Wave of K-Cinema: Korean Women Directors 

In celebration of the Academy Museum’s landmark exhibition Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971—ahead of its closing date of July 16, 2023—we take another look back at the period covered in the exhibition, this time using a contemporary lens. 

Regeneration, Remixed

A screening series spotlighting Sammo Hung’s career as a star, director and producer. 

Sammo Hung: From Stuntman to Star

For over four decades, Mexican-born and Los Angeles-raised writer-director-producer Lourdes Portillo has crafted nuanced film and video works that center the emotions and circumstances of diverse Latinx experiences

Lourdes Portillo: Una vida de directora

Join us for a May the 4th Celebration! Participate in Star Wars–inspired interactive activities, photo ops, and book signings, and stay for a 40th anniversary screening of Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi! 

May the 4th Celebration

 Key films made by and about members of the Hollywood Ten and their blacklisted colleagues. 

The Hollywood Ten at 75

The singular Academy Award-winning Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar (b. 1949)—whose immersive, multichannel media installation is on view as part of the Academy Museum’s Stories of Cinema exhibition

Pedro Almodóvar: Muses and Influences

The conclusion of the Academy Museum’s centennial tribute to master filmmaker Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray: 1970–1991

A screening series celebrating the centennial of Oscar-winning actress Gloria Grahame

Hard Luck Woman: Gloria Grahame at 100

 Showcasing the influence and inspirations of Agnès Varda’s filmmaking years in Southern California. 

Enter the VardaVerse: Los Angeles Countercultures 1968–1981 

A screening series using tenderness as a guide to navigate Black cinematic history.

Try a Little Tenderness

Four classic comedies from writer-director Preston Sturges.

Preston Sturges Matinees 

Three-time Oscar-nominated film editor Dede Allen (1923–2010) began her career in Hollywood at age 20 as a messenger for Columbia Pictures before promotions to editing assistant and then sound editor put her on track to become a full-fledged editor

The Visual Rhythms of Dede Allen 

The Academy Museum launches its first-ever celebration of newly preserved and restored films from the Academy Film Archive  as well as work by archives, studios, distributors, foundations, and independent filmmakers from around the globe.  

Present Past: A Celebration of Film Preservation 

Bruce Lee and I were born in the same San Francisco hospital. In Chinatown, to be exact, where there were five movie theaters, all showing Chinese films from Hong Kong. 

Hollywood Chinese: The First 100 Years 

Presented in conjunction with Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971, on view through April 9, 2023.  

Dorothy Dandridge and Ruby Dee

The start of the new millennium found Korea undergoing tremendous growth and transformation. Impacted by historical changes in politics and the economy in the 1990s

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