- TitleAcademy Awards reference collection
- Summary
This reference collection encompasses materials readily available to the public documenting the Academy's best-known event, the annual Academy Awards presentation. Photographic coverage includes arrivals, presentations, backstage activities and the Governors Ball. Manuscript materials include transcripts, show programs, invitations and tickets, awards rules, press releases, and sizable clipping files. The collection also covers awards-related events such as the Governors Awards and Scientific and Technical Awards ceremonies, the Nominees Luncheon, and nominations announcements. Selected items from the collection include digital reference copies accessible online through the Academy Collections database. The collection does not include internal department records or awards production office files.
- Scope notes
Academy Reference Files
The collection includes a full run of awards rules, reminder lists, and ceremony programs from the first Academy Awards held in 1929 through the present, as well as assorted ephemera such as invitations, tickets and sample ballots from throughout the years. Radio and television scripts for the show begin with the 17th Awards. The bulk of the press release and press kit holdings begin in the 1970s. Extensive yearly subject clipping files begin in 1985, with minimal holdings prior to that year.Photograph Archive
The collection contains photographs of Academy Awards-related events and photo-ops leading up to the night of the ceremony. These include the Nominations announcement, Nominees Luncheon, Scientific and Technical Award Presentations (after 1973), Foreign Language Film events, rehearsals, as well as many others. Often, only proof sheets are available for viewing and the majority of the collection is in black and white. Color materials regularly become available from the 1992 (65th) Awards on. The collection is sparse prior to the 1980s. - Subjects
- Preferred citationAcademy Awards reference collection, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- DepartmentLibrary
- 1087
- AvailabilityFor information on the contents and availability of this collection please contact the Reference and Public Services department at ref@oscars.org.
- Moving Image Items
- Library Holdings