Oct30 HANSAN Park14

Oct29 DECISION TO LEAVE Park2

Horror of Dracula

For Museum Members

Nov18 GETAWAY BranchSelects2

George Stevens Giant

Oct19 IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS Carpenter8

Blade Monster Mash

Sissy Spacek as Carrie White, crowned prom queen in a white dress holding a bouquet of pink roses, stands beside William Katt as Tommy Ross under a glittering 'Bates High School Senior Prom' sign in a still from Carrie (1976).

Carrie

Oct28 ROAD TO PERDITION BranchSelects1MHL

Pride

Nov23 MACHINE TO KILL BAD PEOPLE Rossellini1

Nov5 VOYAGE IN ITALY Rosselini1Janus

Nov17 ROSSELLINI THROUGH HIS OWN EYES Rossellini1

Nov15 PAISAN Rosselini3janus

Nov15 GERMANY YEAR ZERO Rossellin3

Nov16 LAMORE Rossellini1

Nov21 STROMBOLI Rosselini2Janus

Nov22 FLOWERS OF ST FRANCIS Rossellini1Janus

Fear (La Paura) in 4K 

Nov4 ROME OPEN CITY Rossellini5MHL

Nov30 JOAN OF ARC AT THE STAKE Rossellini1

Oct21 GRACELAND BranchSelects1

Moss

For Kids and Families

Nov7 HAUNTED MANSION FamilyMatinees3

Nov2 LAST PRINCESS Park1

Nov2 BUS STOP Marilyn3

Nov2 BUS STOP Marilyn2

Nov2 BUS STOP Marilyn1

Oct25 CHRISTINE Carpenter9

Oct19 SEVEN YEAR ITCH Marilyn8

Oct19 SEVEN YEAR ITCH Marilyn7

Oct19 SEVEN YEAR ITCH Marilyn1

Nov14 JEALOUSY IS MY MIDDLE NAME Park1

Oct25 MEN IN BLACK OscarSundays2MHL

Nov15 GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL OscarSundays3MHL

Nov8 CHICAGO OscarSundays1MHL

Nov1 GOSFORD PARK OscarSundays1MHL

Nov16 MISFITS Marilyn4MHL

Nov16 MISFITS Marilyn6MHL

Nov9 SOME LIKE IT HOT Marilyn2

Nov14 WAIKIKI BROTHERS Park1

Nov16 MISFITS Marilyn2MHL

Jan22 ARRIVAL BranchSelects3MHL

SERIES HERO Nov21 ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD OscarSundays1MHL

Nov28 EUROPA 51 Rossellini2

Nov28 GREMLINS FamilyMatinee1MHL

Nov22 FAVOURITE OscarSundays1MHL

Nov21 WENDELL AND WILD FamilyMatinees5MHL

Nov14 FRANKENWEENIE FamilyMatinees2

Nov11 WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES BranchSelects3MHL

Nov9 SOME LIKE IT HOT Marilyn1

Nov9 SOME LIKE IT HOT Marilyn4MHL

Nov4 MEMORIES OF MURDER Park1Neon

My Dad Is 100 Years Old with Rome, Open City presented by Isabella Rossellini

The Craft

They Live by Night

Faust

Hotel Transylvania

Nov1 EUNGYO Park1

Witches

Oct23 VAMPIRES Carpenter6

Oct22 DARK STAR Carpenter1AGFA

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

Special Screenings at the Academy Museum 

Spotlights

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

Family Matinees

A monthly series showcasing experimental and independent films and media.

Available Space

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

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

Oscar® Sundays 

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

Branch Selects

Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon (Sep 2–Nov 21, 2026): A screening series showcasing her knack for comedic timing and career evolution across 10 films.

Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon

A wide-ranging series celebrating director John Carpenter, whose cinematic language often is laced with biting social commentary, practical monster effects and his own pulsing synthesizer scores.

John Carpenter: Prince of Darkness

This series showcases eight feature films highlighting actor Park Hae-il’s exceptionally insightful perception of the world, its people, and their stories.

박해일: Park Hae-il

A selection of remarkable films borne out of Rossellini's uncompromising vision, the undisputed father of Italian neo-realism.

Roberto Rossellini Prefers Real Life

In the Glow of Candlelight (Sep 3–14): Experience worlds bathed in flickering candlelight, accompanying the new installation Glow: A Cinematic Moodscape.

In the Glow of Candlelight

The Academy Museum celebrates VistaVision with an 11-day series of ultra-rare prints, 70mm remasters, and new 6K digital scans, screening in the David Geffen Theater August 20–31, 2026. 

Presented in VistaVision

The World of Studio Ghibli celebrates the iconic Japanese animation studio with films by Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and more. Screening June 1–August 28, 2026 at the Academy Museum alongside the Studio Ghibli's PONYO exhibition.

The World of Studio Ghibli =

Summer of Thrills, June 12–August 17, 2026, surveys cinema's most exhilarating tradition: tension, spectacle, and mystery. From silent serials and Hitchcock to '70s paranoia and '90s erotic thrillers, with appearances from Michael Mann and more.

Summer of Thrills

Agnieszka Holland joins the Academy Museum Jul 31–Aug 2 for a weekend of films including Green Border, Franz, Europa Europa, and Korczak.

A Weekend with Agnieszka Holland

For one weekend, the Academy Museum welcomes Robert Rodriguez to celebrate two of his most beloved films for their respective anniversaries. 

A Weekend With Robert Rodriguez  

Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin joins the Academy Museum for a weekend of dreamlike, surreal cinema, presenting four of his most celebrated works in person July 11–13, 2026.

A Weekend with Guy Maddin

Marking what would have been her 100th birthday, this 17-film series presents Marilyn Monroe's career evolution from early breakout roles to late-career triumphs. June 1–July 3, 2026, complementing the exhibition Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon.

 Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro brings his lifelong obsession with Alfred Hitchcock to the Academy Museum for five nights of in-depth lectures and screenings, June 24–28, 2026.

Guillermo del Toro Dissects Hitchcock

Free screenings of Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Shaolin Soccer (2001), and Offside (2006), all in 35mm. 

Fútbol Free Day at the Academy Museum

This screening series, a small sample of Robert Shaw’s big-screen acting work, includes some of his most popular films as well as some of the lower-profile, character-oriented projects that were so important to him. 

No Other Time but Now: Robert Shaw, Actor 

The Academy Museum presents Darkness and Humanity: The Complete Akira Kurosawa, a full 35mm retrospective running Mar 28–May 30, 2026, celebrating the filmmaker’s masterful epics, human dramas, and lasting influence on world cinema.

Darkness and Humanity: The Complete Akira Kurosawa

The Academy Museum presents A Lifetime of Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho, Mar 23–May 29, 2026—a free-with-admission series highlighting classic films that shaped Bong’s cinematic sensibilities, from American genre influences to East Asian auteurs.

A Lifetime of Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho

A turbulent postwar era is seen through the collective lens of a wave of British studio filmmakers active between 1945 and 1960.

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema 1945–1960 

For one weekend in April 2026, director Bong Joon Ho returns to the Academy Museum to create exhilarating memories on stage.

A Weekend With Bong Joon Ho

2026 Oscars Screenings

Exclusive nominee screenings, panels, and more, all leading up to the 98th Academy Awards

2026 Oscar Nominee Spotlights

Explore the wonders of outer space on screen with To Infinity: Space Travel in the Movies (Jan 30–Feb 28, 2026), featuring classic films, visionary directors, and expert talks in astrophysics and cosmology.

To Infinity: Space Travel in the Movies

This screening series, celebrates the costume designers, makeup artists, and hairstylists responsible for the unforgettable looks in some of the most beloved musical films of all time.

Designing to Music: Costume, Makeup, and Hairstyling in Musical Films

Explore seven decades of killer-animal films—from Jaws to The Birds—in this thrilling series inspired by Jaws – The Exhibition.

When Man is the Prey: Nature’s Revenge at the Movies

Jan 10–Feb 12, 2026: Where the Forest Meets the Sea traces folklore from oral tales told around the fire to films like Häxan (1922) and Bramayugam (2024), exploring how stories of fear and faith evolve into folk horror across cultures.

Where the Forest Meets the Sea: Folklore from Around the World

In honor of Lynch’s distinct voice and memory of his vibrant life, the Academy Museum is screening five of his most notable films. 

Wild at Heart and Weird on Top: A Tribute to David Lynch 

3D-cember returns! Enjoy Jaws 3-D, Coraline, and Gog in spectacular Dolby 3D at the Academy Museum’s annual celebration of immersive cinema.

3D-cember

The Academy Museum’s third 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 worldwide.

Present Past 2025: A Celebration of Film Preservation

Centennial celebration of Carlo Rambaldi (1925–2012), Oscar-winning artist behind E.T., King Kong, and more—showcasing his extraordinary innovation in special effects across Italy, Hollywood, and three decades of cinematic history.

The Man Who Made Creatures: Special Effects Wizard Carlo Rambaldi

The creative team of UK-born production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer are responsible for the visual design of some of the most lush, detailed, and outstanding films of the last two decades. 

The Cinematic Worlds of Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer

This screening series illustrates significant achievements at the Academy Awards by five studios: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Universal, Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, Paramount, and Fox.

Hollywoodland: Significant Oscar Wins

To celebrate 125 years since the director’s birth, this series considers Buñuel’s films made in France, Mexico, and Spain, presenting a snapshot of one of the last century’s most radical populist artists.

Around the World with/Autour du monde avec/La vuelta al mundo con Luis Buñuel

Founded in 1895 by French inventor and engineer Léon Gaumont, the world’s oldest operating film studio is also one of the most influential production companies and distributors in the world.

Born with Cinema: Gaumont at 130

Iconoclastic German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger is known for her distinctive approach to storytelling, often blending surrealism, feminism, and political critique in her genre-defying works.

Ulrike Ottinger: Cinema Artist, Cinema Rebel

Bathed in Light: Saturated Colors in Cinema

Indeed, the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration. And Camp is esoteric—something of a private code, a badge of identity...”

Summer Of Camp! 

This series, guest programmed by curators Zehra Zehra and Kilo Kish, explores how we can reimagine the American Dream to include women of color and their hopes and desires, while exploring new ways of dreaming. 

American Gurl: Seeking...

Programmed in collaboration with the Academy Museum’s Teen Council, the films in this series highlight the teen comedy subgenre in the last four decades

Teen Movie Madness! 

Though nuanced representation of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender characters in film has significantly increased since the 1990s, queer folks have always been here, seeking to find themselves reflected in history, literature, and the moving image.

Queer, Period: Desire Through The Ages

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

Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema – Encore Presentations 

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

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

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

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

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 

2025 Oscars Screenings

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

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