Academy Theater Articles

Driving Miss Daisy: Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman (top); Freeman, Dan Aykroyd (bottom) Driving Miss Daisy, Bruce Beresford's 1989 Best Picture Oscar winner, will be the final 2010 presentation in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' "Monday Nights with Oscar" film series. Driving Miss Daisy, which stars Oscar winner Jessica Tandy, and Oscar nominees Morgan Freeman and Dan Aykroyd, will be screened on Monday, [...]

Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice, Omar Sharif in William Wyler's Funny Girl A restored print of Funny Girl (1968), Barbra Streisand's film debut, will reignite the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Monday Nights with Oscar” series on Monday, November 15, at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International in New York City. "Monday Nights with Oscar" has been on hiatus for [...]

Actor Michael Murphy attended a special screening of the 1979 classic Manhattan presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the "Monday Nights with Oscar" series on Monday, November 16, at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International in New York City. Directed by Woody Allen, Manhattan stars Allen, Murphy, Diane Keaton, and Mariel Hemingway. The film earned Academy Award nominations [...]

Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (top); Bette Davis, Geraldine Fitzgerald in Dark Victory (middle); Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights (bottom) Gone with the Wind, the 1939 Best Picture winner, will kick off the New York presentation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ latest screening series, "Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939," on Saturday, [...]