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The Hollywood Sign, circa 1924. Courtesy Margaret Herrick Library

The Hollywood Sign

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Fanny's Restaurant

A still life featuring various items floating against a solid green background. The items include a black sweatshirt embroidered with a gold and red Oscar statue design and the word "OSCAR," a hardcover copy of "Pride and Prejudice" with a decorated blue and white cover, a light blue plastic case holding a pink reusable fork, knife, and spoon set, and a green and white reusable shopping bag with a pattern of leaves and characters from Studio Ghibli's My Neighbor Totoro, with a Totoro plush attached to the strap. A small bouquet of yellow and white flowers is placed near the book.

Black Friday Merchandise Collage (Card Carousel)

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An immersive simulation in which you can finally accept that Oscar—and take a video home to prove it.

The Oscars Experience

The Oscars® Experience

A 945-seat, grand presentation space for film premieres, public programs, live performances, and special events.

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David Geffen Theater

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American Sign Language (ASL) tours of select galleries are always offered at noon on the same day as our <a href="https://www.academymuseum.org/programs/series/calm-mornings">monthly Calm Morning</a> program and accommodative Family Matinee film screening. Join a museum educator and ASL interpreter to experience cinema’s wide-ranging contributions to the world.If you are interested in learning more, please email us at <a href="mailto:museumeducation@oscars.org">museumeducation@oscars.org</a>.

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ASL Interpreted Tours

Museum educators offer a deep dive into the fascinating history of the Hollywood studio system.

Hollywoodland Close Up 2026

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Close-up Tours: Hollywoodland

Museum educators lead 30-minute guided tours exploring the career of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. Through her films, costumes and more, this exhibition, titled <a href="https://www.academymuseum.org/exhibitions/marilyn-monroe-hollywood-icon">Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon</a>, uncovers the woman behind the carefully crafted image. Tour guides use voice amplifiers to enhance sound accessibility. If you have any questions or need assistance planning your visit, please email <a href="mailto: museumeducation@oscars.org">museumeducation@oscars.org</a>.

Monroe Close Up Tour

Close-Up Tours: Marilyn Monroe

Experience LA&#39;s golden hour high above the city on the Academy Museum’s Dolby Family Terrace, with a refreshing Fanny’s cocktail in hand, on Saturday afternoons.

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Sips on the Terrace

Spend your evenings with us at the Academy Museum. Visit after 4:30pm and get a discount on museum admission for the last 90 minutes.

Last Looks Fall

Last Looks at the Academy Museum

On the last Friday of every month at 2pm, a museum educator offers a visual description tour in a select exhibition.This 30-minute verbal overview, crafted for visitors who are blind or low vision, is a way of using words to represent the visual world, helping people form mental images of what they cannot see. All are welcome to join this gallery conversation. If you are interested in learning more, or would like to book an individual visual description tour, please email us at <a href="mailto:museumeducation@oscars.org">museumeducation@oscars.org</a>.

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Visual Description Tours

Visual Description Tours

Ivan Passer (Intimate Lighting, 1966) directed this low-key mystery, based on Newton Thornberg’s novel Cutter and Bone. John Heard is Cutter, a disabled, hard-drinking Vietnam veteran, and Jeff Bridges is Bone, his easygoing best friend. When Cutter becomes convinced that Bone is the witness to a young woman’s murder, the resulting obsession challenges their friendship and threatens their lives. With its Santa Barbara setting, evocative cinematography by Jordan Cronenweth (Blade Runner, 1982), and a dreamy score by Jack Nitzsche (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975), Cutter’s Way is a one-of-a-kind cross between a 70s-style character study and a paranoid thriller.

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Cutter&#39;s Way

Considered by many historians to be the first feature-length talkie out of Britain, this seminal thriller from the Master of Suspense cemented Alfred Hitchcock “as the most admired British director of all time” (Mark Duguid, BFI Screenonline). Shot on location in the London Underground, at the Tea House at Piccadilly Circus, and atop the British Museum, Blackmail succeeds not just in its compelling mystery, but also in capturing the richness of life in 1920s London. A picture that could have been a simple police procedural transcends its roots in the theater to become an exemplar of cinematic formalism and a high watermark of Hitchcock’s early years, with well-timed sonic emphases that could unnerve even the steeliest of dispositions.

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Blackmail

The legendary detective Hercule Poirot (an unrecognizable Albert Finney, in an Oscar-nominated performance) finds himself faced with a train full of all-star suspects (including Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins and Vanessa Redgrave) when a notorious gangster (Richard Widmark) is murdered on the Orient Express. Director Sidney Lumet took an unexpected departure from his usual gritty stories of contemporary urban life with this lavish film version of Agatha Christie’s 1934 whodunit. Ingrid Bergman won her third Oscar for her droll supporting performance as an unassuming suspect, and the film’s six nominations included one for composer Richard Rodney Bennett; the three-time nominee contributed an elegant score highlighted by a charming waltz theme for the train itself.

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Murder on the Orient Express

Every Sunday, Fanny&#39;s features a rotating selection of Korean specials inspired by and in conjunction with Director&#39;s Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho, the Academy Museum&#39;s first exhibition honoring the Oscar-winning filmmaker.

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