Academy Museum Sets ‘Hollywoodland’ Showcase Of L.A. Film Industry’s Founders As First Permanent Exhibition, Unveils Others

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The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures today announced the first round of exhibition rotations scheduled for the 2022–2023 season, which further its mission to advance the understanding, celebration, and preservation of cinema.This summer, the Museum will open the exhibition Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971, which will explore the history of Black cinema, from its earliest days to just after the civil rights movement.

In the fall, it will open galleries devoted to Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and the influences of French filmmaker Agnès Varda.In early 2023, new exhibitions will open, with spaces spotlighting Boyz n the Hood, Casablanca, documentarian Lourdes Portillo, and the collaboration between production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer.

Then, in late spring, the Museum will open its first permanent exhibition, Hollywoodland, chronicling the founding and the founders of the Hollywood studio system in Los Angeles.Over time, new objects, images, and interviews will be added to various galleries, including Gregory Peck’s Oscar for To Kill a Mockingbird, storyboards and scripts from Hitchcock’s Rebecca and The Birds, costumes designed by Travis Banton, Edith Head and Ann Roth, and interviews with film editors Maysie Hoy, Carol Littleton, and Sam Pollard, among others.Concurrently, the Academy Museum’s public spaces—the Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby, the Ted Mann Lobby, the Netflix Lounge, the Walt Disney Company Piazza, the Dolby Family Terrace, the Gerry Schwartz and Heather Reisman Mezzanine, and the spine of the museum—will be updated by Kulapat Yantrasast and WHY Architecture.Said Academy Museum Director and President, Bill Kramer: “The history of film is endlessly rich and varied,