A rare and extensive animation collection from Steven Spielberg, Shirley Kurata’s Oscar nominated costumes from 2022 Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All At Once, a blacklisted writer’s original Oscar statuette from 1958’s The Defiant Ones, and the 700+ film-strong collection of legendary film scholar and Honorary Oscar recipient Kevin Brownlow are just a few of the latest donations to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences vast collections housed at both the Margaret Herrick Library on La Cienega in Beverly Hills, as well as the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures , and the Academy Film Archive.
These items and many more just add to the eye-popping collected works for AMPAS, the largest film-related collection in the world (next to my garage – NOT).
The Steven Spielberg Animation Collection which includes more an 150 pieces of original animation art between 1932 and 1952 is such a prize that the Academy is renaming its Herrick Library’s Graphic Arts department which also includes posters, production art, costume designs etc after both Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw.
Spielberg, a former Governor of the Academy, has been very generous in the past, even to the point of buying a prized Oscar statuette at auction and then gifting it back to AMPAS.
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