About the gallery
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.