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| Film Archive & Film Preservation
Film preservation assures that a movie will continue to exist, as close to its original form as possible. Film preservation holds the concepts of handling, duplication, storage, and access. The archivist’s job is to protect the film and at the same time, share the content with the public. Film preservation is an ongoing project among film historians, archivists, museums, and non-profit organizations to rescue decaying film stock, and preserve the images, which they contain. The National Film Preservation Foundation is the nonprofit organization created by the U.S. Congress to help save America's film heritage. The Archive of American Television preserves the rich history of television capturing exclusive interviews with its legends and pioneers on videotape. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study has become a hub for film preservation and restoration for Hollywood films, television and media, international cinema and Hollywood movie classics. It’s 118,000-square-foot former television studio facility is a pillar of a vast international enterprise that has exploded during the past few years because of government and private funding that, at last, has provided the means to keep film from becoming extinct.
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| The Motion Picture Collection at George Eastman House is the home to over 25,000 titles, as well as a collection of stills, posters, and papers with over 3 million artifacts. George Eastman House is a leading force in the field of film preservation. The archive now preserves the personal film collections of directors Kathryn Bigelow, Ken Burns, Cecil B. DeMille, Norman Jewison, Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese, as well as the largest single body of nitrate Technicolor YCM negatives in the United States.
The World Cinema Foundation was established by famed director, Martin Scorsese. The foundation encourages preservation efforts to save the worldwide patrimony of films, ensuring that they are preserved, seen and shared. They have a wonderful collection of remarkable films, past and present, from Mexico, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Central Asia that deserve to be known and seen.
The Museum of Modern Art, located in New York City, is home to more than 22,000 films and four million film stills; the strongest international film collection in the United States. The collection incorporates all periods and genres. Among the holdings are original negatives of the Biograph and Edison companies, and the world's largest collection of D. W. Griffith films.
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is internationally renowned for its pioneering efforts to preserve and showcase not only classic but current and innovative film and television. It is dedicated to ensuring that the moving image history of our time is explored and enjoyed for generations to come.
The UC Berkeley Art Museum and the Pacific Film Archive is the visual arts center of the University of California, Berkeley. The Pacific Film Archive is actively engaged in film preservation, with an emphasis on independent and experimental films. They house the largest collection of Japanese films outside of Japan, West Coast avant-garde cinema, French New Wave cinema, seminal video art, rare animation, Soviet silent’s, Eastern European and Central Asian productions, and international classics.
The British Film Institute Nation Archive is home to more than 50, 000 fiction films, over 100,000 non-fiction titles and around 625,000 television programs. The majority of the collection is British material, but it also features internationally significant holding from around the world.
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The American Film Institute (AFI) was established in 1967, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act. The AFI was created by The National Endowment of Arts to provide leadership in screen education and the recognition and celebration of excellence in the art of film, television and digital media.
The AFI’s 100 years…100 stars is a list of the top stars in American Cinema. The list was unveiled in 1999, and is part of a continuing celebration of 100 years of American movies. The list includes the 50 greatest American screen legends — the top 25 women and top 25 men, who AFI defines as an American screen legend" as an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950 or have died prior to the creation of the list.
AFI’s 50 GREATEST AMERICAN SCREEN LEGENDS
(1) Katherine Hepburn, (2) Bette Davis, (3) Audrey Hepburn, (4) Ingrid Bergman, (5) Greta Garbo, (6) Marilyn Monroe, (7) Elizabeth Taylor, (8) Judy Garland, (9) Marlene Dietrich (10) Joan Crawford, (11) Barbara Stanwyck, (12) Claudette Colbert, (13) Grace Kelly, (14) Ginger Rogers, (15) Mae West, (16) Vivien Leigh, (17) Lillian Gish, (18) Shirley Temple, (19) Rita Hayworth, (20) Lauren Bacall, (21) Sophia Loren (22) Jean Harlow, (23) Carole Lombard, (24) Mary Pickford, (25) Ava Gardner.
(1) Humphrey Bogart, (2) Cary Grant, (3) James Stewart, (4) Marlon Brando, (5) Fred Astaire, (6) Henry Fonda, (7) Clark Gable (8) James Gagney, (9) Spencer Tracy, (10) Charlie Chaplin, (11) Gary Cooper, (12) Gregory Peck, (13) John Wayne, (14) Laurence Olivier, (15) Gene Kelly, (16) Orson Welles, (17) Kirk Douglas, (18) James Dean, (19) Burt Lancaster, (20) The Marx Brothers, (21) Buster Keaton, (22) Sidney Poitier, (23) Robert Mitchum, (24) Edward G. Robinson, (25) William Holden.
The list of legends was presented by 50 stars of today: Kevin Bacon, Alec Baldwin, Jacqueline Bisset , Ernest Borgnine, James Caan, Jim Carrey, Chevy Chase, Cher, Kevin Costner, Billy Crystal, Claire Danes, Geena Davis, Laura Dern, Matt Dillon, Richard Dreyfuss, Clint Eastwood, Mia Farrow, Bridget Fonda, Peter Fonda, Morgan Freeman, Teri Garr, Whoopi Goldberg, Jeff Goldblum, Woody Harrelson, Richard Harris, Goldie Hawn, Gregory Hines, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Michael Keaton, Martin Landau, Jessica Lange, Shirley MacLaine, Marsha Mason, Marlee Matlin, Mike Myers, Edward Norton, Edward James Olmos, Miss Piggy, Lynn Redgrave, Julia Roberts, Gena Rowlands, Kevin Spacey, Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Sharon Stone, Billy Bob Thornton, Lily Tomlin, Emily Watson and James Woods.
The AFI’s 100 years…100 movies, recognizes 100 movies that have set the standard and mark the excellence of the first century of American cinema. The films were all made in the first 100 years of American cinema (1896-1996). Movies produced after 1996 were not included. Five, Steven Spielberg films made the top 100.
AFI’s 100 GREATEST AMERICAN MOVIES
(1) Citizen Kane, (2) Casablanca, (3) The Godfather, (4) Gone with the wind, (5) Lawrence of Arabia, (6) The Wizard of Oz, (7), The Graduate, (8) On the Waterfront, (9) Schindler’s list, (10) Singin in the Rain, (11) It’s a Wonderful Life, (12) Sunset Boulevard, (13) The Bridge on the River Kwai, (14) Some Like it Hot, (15) Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, (16) All About Eve, (17) The African Queen, (18) Psycho, (19) Chinatown, (20) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, (21) The Grapes of Wrath, (22) 2001: A Space Odyssey, (23) The Maltese Falcon, (24) Raging Bull, (25) E.T the Extra Terrestrial, (26) Dr. Strangelove, (27) Bonnie and Clyde, (28) Apocalypse Now, (29) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, (30) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, (31) Annie Hall, (32) The Godfather Part II (33) High Noon, (34) To Kill a Mockingbird, (35) It Happened One Night, (36) Midnight Cowboy, (37) The Best Years of our Lives, (38) Double Indemnity, (39) Doctor Zhivago, (40) North by Northwest, (41) West Side Story, (42) Rear Window, (43) King Kong, (44) The Birth of a Nation, (45) A Streetcar Named Desire, (46) A Clockwork Orange, (47) Taxi Driver, (48) Jaws, (49) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, (50) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, (51) The Philadelphia Story, (52) From Here to Eternity, (53) Amadeus, (54) All Quiet on the Western Front, (55) The Sound of Music, (56) Mash, (57) The Third Man, (58) Fantasia, (59) Rebel Without a Cause, (60) Raiders of the Lost Ark, (61) Vertigo, (62) Tootsie, (63) Stagecoach, (64) Close Encounter of the Third Kind, (65) The Silence of the Lambs, (66) Network, (67) The Manchurian Candidate, (68) An American in Paris, (69) Shane, (70) The French Connection, (71) Forrest Gump, (72) Ben-Hur, (73) Wuthering Heights, (74) The Gold Rush, (75) Dances with Wolves, (76) City Lights, (77) American Graffiti, (78) Rocky, (79) The Deer Hunter, (80) The Wild Bunch, (81) Modern Times, (82) Giant, (83) Platoon, (84) Fargo, (85) Duck Soup, (86) Mutiny on the Bounty, (87) Frankenstein, (88) Easy Rider, (89) Patton, (90) The Jazz Singer, (91) My Fair Lady, (92) A Place in the Sun, (93) The Apartment, (94) Goodfellas, (95) Pulp Fiction, (96) The Searchers, (97) Bringing up Baby, (98) Unforgiven, (99) Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, (100) Yankee Doodle Dandy
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Top 100 Black Classic Movies
(1) 48 Hrs (2) 4 Little Girls, (3) Alex Haley’s Queen, (4) Amistad, (5) Ana Lucasta, (6) The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, (7) Backstairs at the White House, (8) Beloved, (9) The Best Man, (10) Beverly Hills Cop, (11) The Bingo Long All-Stars and Motor Kings, (12) Bird, (13) The Blood of Jesus, (14) Body and Soul, (15) Boyz ‘N the Hood, (16) Brian’s Song, (17) Buck and the Preacher, (18) Buffalo Soldiers, (19) Cabin in the sky, (20) Car Wash, (21) Carmen Jones, (22) Claudine, (23) Cleopatra Jones, (24) Coffy, (25) The Color Purple, (26) Coming to America, (27) Cooley High, (28) Cornbread Earl & Me, (29) Cotton Comes to Harlem, (30) Daughters of the Dust, (31) The Defiant Ones, (32) Devil in a Blue Dress, (33) Do the Right Thing, (34) Driving Miss Daisy, (35) The Duke is Tops, (36) The Emperor Jones, (37) Eve’s Bayou, (38) Eyes on the Prize, (39) A Family Thing, (40) The Five heartbeats, (41) For Love of Ivy, (42) Glory, (43) Gone With the Wind, (44) The Great White Hope, (45) The Green Pastures, (46) Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, (47) Hallelujah!, (48) Hi-De-Ho, (49) Hollywood Shuffle, (50) Hoop Dreams, (51) How Stella Got her Groove Back, (52) Imitation of Life, (53) In the Heat of the Night, (54) Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, (55) Island in the Sun, (56) The Jackie Robinson Story, (57) The Josephine Baker Story, (58) Killer of Sheep, (59) King, (60) Lady Sings the Blues, (61) Lean on Me, (62) A Lesson Before Dying, (63) Lethal Weapon, (64) Let’s Do It Again, (65) Lilies of the Field, (66) Love Jones, (67) Mahogany, (68) Malcolm X, (69) Miss Evers ‘ Boys, (70) New Jack City, (71) No Way Out, (72) Nothing But a Man, (73) Once upon a time…when we were Colored, (74) A Piece of the Action, (75) Pinky, (76) Purlie Victorious, (77) A Raisin in the Sun, (78) Roots, (79) Roots – The Next Generation, School Daze, (80) School Daze, (81) Sergeant Rutledge, (82) Shaft, (83) She’s Gotta Have It, (84) Sister Act, (85) A Soldier’s Story, (86) Soul Food, (87) Sparkle, (88) Stormy Weather, (89) Superfly, (90) The Temptations, (91) A Time to Kill, (92) Trading Places, (93) The Tuskegee Airmen, (94) Uptown Saturday Night, (95) Waiting to Exhale, (96) What’s Love Got to Do With It?, (97) When We Were Kings, (98) Within Our Gates, (99) The Wiz, (100) Women of Brewster Place.
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Black Academy Award Winners
Best Actor
Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field (1963)
Denzel Washington, Training Day (2001)
Jaime Foxx, Ray (2004)
Forrest Whitaker, Last King of Scotland (2005)
Best Supporting Actor
Louis Gossett Jr., An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Denzel Washington, Glory (1989)
Cuba Gooding Jr., Jerry Maguire (1996)
Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Best Actress
Halle Berry, Monster’s Ball (2001)
Best Supporting Actress
Hattie McDaniel, Gone With the Wind (1939)
Whoopi Goldberg, Ghost (1990)
Jennifer Hudson, Dream Girls (2006)
Mo’Nique, Precious (2010)
Best Music
Isaac Hayes, Original Score - Shaft (1971)
Irene Cara, Original Song “What a Feeling” – Flashdance (1983)
Prince, Original Score – Purple Rain (1984)
Stevie Wonder, Original Song – “I Just Called to Say I Love You”
The Woman in Red (1984)
Lionel Richie, Original Score – “Say You, Say Me” – White Nights (1985)
Herbie Hancock, Original Score – Round Midnight (1986)
Willie D. Burton, Sound – Bird (1988)
Russell Williams II, Sound – Glory (1989)
Russell Williams II, Sound – Dances With Wolves (1990)
Three 6 Mafia, Original Song – “It’s Hard out here for a Pimp”
Hustle & Flow (2005)
William D. Burton, Sound Mixing – Dream Girls (2006)
Screenplay (Adapted)
Geoffrey Fletcher - Precious (2010)
Honorary Awards
James Baskett, Uncle Remus, (1948)
Quincy Jones, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1995)
Sidney Poitier, Lifetime Achievement (2002)
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