Steven Spielberg Animation Collection, Blacklisted Writer’s Oscar Statuette, “Everything Everywhere’ Costumes Part Of New Donations To Motion Picture Academy
deadline.comA 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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