Transformations Stories of Cinema Effect

Special Effects have always brought the creatures, characters, and atmospheres of film to life. But the creativity used to bring practical effects to life is something that leaves audiences astonished and amazed.  

Gallery Spotlight: Cinematic Effects with Shane P. Mahan

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Limited Series and Spotlights

My Neighbor Totoro

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Shirley Temple at Desk

Spike Lee Gallery in Stories of Cinema

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Academy Awards History gallery, Stories of Cinema 2, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Photo by Joshua White, JWPictures/©Academy Museum Foundation

Academy Awards History gallery, Stories of Cinema 2

Education Program

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THE GODFATHER Gallery

Workshops

Significant Movies and Moviemakers - Real Women Have Curves

Oscars Gallery

Gallery Image of Inventing Worlds and Characters: Animation 

 Inventing Worlds and Characters: Animation Gallery

Costume Design Gallery in Stories of Cinema 3

Stories of Cinema 3, Identity Costume Design

Identity: Costume Design

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Regeneration Black Cinema

Mt. Rushmore backdrop from North by Northwest (1959), gift of the Coakley Family and JC Backings Corporation, Courtesy Academy Museum Foundation

Backdrop: An Invisible Art 

Photography within Boyz n the Hood Gallery, Significant Movies and Moviemakers

Boyz N The Hood Gallery

The Path to Cinema: Highlights from the Richard Balzer Collection, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Photo by Joshua White, JWPictures/©Academy Museum Foundation

The Path to Cinema: Highlights from the Richard Balzer Collection

Gallery Spotlight: Land Acknowledgment

Dressed to Kill

Gallery Spotlight: Music and Film with Paravi  

El Norte

Oscars

Makeup and Hairstyling Gallery

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Pickles 

Sarah Finn

Special Guests

Stories of Cinema 1

Ken Diaz Spotlight

Color in Motion Costumes Image

Choreo Color

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Joi McMillon

Color in Motion Title Wall

Cyberpunk exhibition photo poster wall

Two individuals looking at a color diorama in a museum gallery

Color in Motion Tours

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

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Director Steven Spielberg, kneeling with camera, during production of JAWS (1975). Standing, left to right: Tom Joyner (first assistant director), Bill Butler (director of photography), James Contner (first assistant camera), Michael Chapman (camera operator). Courtesy of Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Steven Spielberg Jaws

Dancing Through Cinema

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Gallery Spotlight: Cinematic Effects with Shane P. Mahan

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