Contact Information
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy Film Archive
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy Film Archive
1313 Vine Street
Los Angeles, CA. 90028
Access and Management
Access
Interest in viewing materials in the Archive's collection should be made via phone, email, or through the Archive's contact page at https://www.oscars.org/form/viewing-request-form. Appointments must be made at least 36 hours in advance to allow for climatization of moving image materials.
Management
Dedicated to the preservation, restoration, documentation, exhibition and study of motion pictures, the Academy Film Archive is home to one of the most diverse and extensive motion picture collections in the world, including the personal collections of such filmmakers as Tacita Dean, Cecil B. DeMille, Barbara Hammer, Alfred Hitchcock, Jim Jarmusch, Penelope Spheeris, George Stevens, Gus Van Sant, and Fred Zinnemann.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences was founded in 1927 and began acquiring film material in 1929. The Academy Film Archive, established in 1991, holds over 190,000 items, including all of the Academy Award-winning films in the Best Picture category, all the Oscar-winning documentaries and many Oscar-nominated films in all categories.