It was a Hollywood gold star studded crowd, including Mr. Hollywood himself, Warren Beatty, celebrating the future home of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, on April 11.
The nearly 300,000-square-foot cultural landmark, designed by architects Renzo Piano and Zoltan Pali, will attract visitors from across California and all of the United States. It will feature interactive, family friendly moviemaking labs, guided discussions, media literacy and industry-wide topics.
George and Brad Takei are proud sponsors of The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
The Museum will feature screenings of both established and emerging filmmakers, plus multidisciplinary presentations by artists, craftspeople, technologists and creative collaborators behind the scenes. It will feature six levels of programming and exhibition space.
Academy CEO Dawn Hudson, Sam Trammell and Paul Reubens celebrate at the Gala cocktail party.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will be environmentally sensitive, the adaptive reuse of the historic, 1939 Wilshire May Company Building, will have a 15,000 square-foot landscaped public piazza that will serve as a gathering center that will connect the Museum with the LACMA campus.
Bob Iger, Chairman of the Academy Museum, Michael Govan (center) and Brian Grazer.
The featured photograph was from left to right: Jeffrey Katzenberg, Academy Governor Kathleen Kennedy, Academy CEO Dawn Hudson and Laura Dern.
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