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Academy Museum

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
11/7/2021

The Academy Museum Ignores Hollywood Labor History

by Andy Lewis

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was originally established to help studios negotiate contracts with the studio unions. Today, the on-set tragedy in New Mexico reminds that film production is an industry and workers make it run. The Academy Museum misses that part of the story.

1/12/20

Cinema Paradiso: The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Will Be The Home of Movies, Past and Present

by Andrew Fletcher

When it opens in 2020, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will be an interesting landmark for historians and movie buffs alike.