The Academy has 12 million photographs, 85,000 scripts, and 63,000 movie posters in its vaults. Soon, you'll be able to see them too.
As Margaret Thatcher famously said, if you want something done, ask a woman. At its founding in 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars, planned to open a museum dedicated to cinema history. More than 90 years later, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is slated to open in Los Angeles. And we have Dawn Hudson to thank.
When Hudson was hired to run the Academy as CEO in 2011, she made it her mission to turn the idea of a museum into a reality. “I had worked in this industry for 20 years, and I didn’t know all of what the Academy does,” says Hudson, who was previously executive director of Film Independent, which produces the Spirit Awards and the L.A. Film Festival. She’s referring to the fact that, even 93 years ago, the Academy “had the vision that cinema was something worth preserving,” Hudson says.
Five months after she joined, she got the Academy’s Board of Governors to give her $5 million to put down on a location and one year to raise $100 million in donations. “The advantage of being the new person is that you don’t take no for an answer,” Hudson says. A year later, five minutes before the deadline, Hudson’s team secured the final pledge, and the board voted in favor of building the museum. “It was one of the best nights of my professional life,” she says., 1976, wearing a Rolex watch.
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