Rochester, N.Y., January 23, 2018—The George Eastman Museum will be celebrating the 90th Academy Awards with a 23-film series at the Dryden through April, a special event with Jack Garner on February 16 discussing his award winner predictions, and a day of past Best Picture winners screening at Kodak Center on March 3.
90 Years of Academy Awards Film Series
In 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented the 1st Academy Awards, a ceremony that quickly grew to become the global standard for measuring artistic and technical excellence in film industry. To honor the 90th award ceremony, the Dryden Theatre is presenting a series of 23 titles spread over seven decades, all 35mm film prints from the museum’s own collection, and all winners of at least three and up to eleven different Academy Awards. The series, which began at the beginning of the year, ranges from Cimarron (1931), the fourth ever Best Picture and one of the very few westerns to win that top Oscar, to Schindler’s List (1993), Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece and arguably one of Academy’s finest moments in recent history. For a full list of films and dates, visit eastman.org/dryden.
Academy Awards Preview with Jack Garner
Democrat and Chronicle entertainment columnist Jack Garner will offer his take on the 2018 Academy Award nominations and predict the winners in the major categories on Friday, February 16, at 6 p.m. in the Dryden Theatre at the George Eastman Museum. Tickets for the Academy Awards Preview event in the Dryden are $10 general admission, $7 museum members, $5 students (with ID).
For those interested in keeping the discussion going, a premium ticket is available for $40, which includes dinner with wine in the museum’s Potter Peristyle following the talk, with Garner in attendance. For reservations and more information, call (585) 327-4888. Reservations for dinner must be made by February 9. The event is presented by the Eastman Museum Council, and all proceeds will benefit the George Eastman Museum.
Honoring 90 Years of the Academy Awards at The Kodak Center
On Saturday, March 3, Kodak will be screening two Oscar-winning films in 35mm at the Kodak Center Theater at 200 West Ridge Road.
11 a.m. - The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, UK/US 1957)
3 p.m. - Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, US 1994)
Tickets for the screenings are available at eastman.org/AAwards and are $10 for general admission and $7 for George Eastman Museum members, for each film. All proceeds benefit the George Eastman Museum.
About the George Eastman Museum
Founded in 1947, the George Eastman Museum is the world’s oldest photography museum and one of the largest film archives in the United States, located on the historic Rochester estate of entrepreneur and philanthropist George Eastman, the pioneer of popular photography. Its holdings comprise more than 400,000 photographs, 28,000 motion picture films, the world’s preeminent collection of photographic and cinematographic technology, one of the leading libraries of books related to photography and cinema, and extensive holdings of documents and other objects related to George Eastman. As a research and teaching institution, the Eastman Museum has an active publishing program and, through its two joint master’s degree programs with the University of Rochester, makes critical contributions to the fields of film preservation and of photographic preservation and collection management. For more information, visit eastman.org.
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PRESS IMAGES can be downloaded for use here: https://eastmanmuseum.box.com/v/drydenfilmstills.
