Marlon Brando was named best actor for his performance as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppolas best picture winner The Godfather (1972), a 26-year-old Sacheen Littlefeather (Apache/Yaqui/AZ) took the stage to decline the prize on behalf of the actor. She was lambasted with an avalanche of boos from the audience, racist gestures such as tomahawk chops and threatened with violence offstage.
Fifty years later, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is apologizing for the treatment she received that evening, in addition to holding a special program and conversation titled An Evening with Sacheen Littlefeather on Sept. 17.
Now 75, Littlefeather, who is programming with Amy Homma, VP of education and public engagement at the Academy Museum, will offer a reflection aimed at healing. Littlefeather became the first Native woman to stand on the stage at any Academy Awards ceremony back in 1973. The famous 60-second speech is featured in the Academy museums Academy Awards History gallery, echoing in the room with other historic moments such as Halle Berry becoming the first Black best actress winner and Parasite winning best picture. Her words brought attention to the 1973 Wounded Knee protest in South Dakota and resulted in her being professionally boycotted, attacked, harassed and discriminated against for the last 50 years.
We are delighted and humbled that Sacheen has so generously chosen to engage with the museum and Academy to reflect upon her trying experience at the 1973 Academy Awards, said Jacqueline Stewart, director and president of the Academy Museum. Our thanks go out to Bird Runningwater and Heather Rae for helping us foster our cherished relationship with Sacheen.
Academy Museum Announces Upcoming Season, Exhibits on Hollywood Founders, The Godfather, Boyz n the Hood. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures revealed the first round of exhibits for its 2022-2023 season on Monday, including a tribute to Francis Ford Coppolas 1972 film The Godfather and its first permanent exhibit, Hollywoodland, dedicated to the founders of Hollywood.
Other newly announced additions to the museum include Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, a tribute to French filmmaker Agnès Varda and spaces dedicated to Boyz n the Hood (1991), Casablanca (1942) and the collaborations of production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer.
The history of film is endlessly rich and varied, which is why we envisioned the exhibitions of the Academy Museum as a continually evolving set of installations and virtual content, said Bill Kramer, director and president of the Academy Museum. We are delighted to present a new round of stories, explorations, moving images, props, and other objects that explore the many facets of moviemaking – from the founding of Hollywood to present day.
When the Academy Museum opened in September, it included exhibitions on Spike Lee, Hayao Miyazaki and Pedro Almodóvar, but the museum faced criticism from donors and Academy members for neglecting to include explicit mention of the Jewish founders of the Hollywood studio system.
The Jewish contributions to the film industry, from its founding to today, should be highlighted, Haim Saban, who donated $50 million to the Academy museum alongside his wife, Cheryl, told Rolling Stone in January. We shared our perspective with the Academy Museums management and appreciate that they are taking our feedback seriously.
With the newly announced changes to the museums installations, which will begin with the August opening of Regeneration, the criticism appears to have been taken seriously. Hollywoodland will permanently join the museum in spring 2023 and will document the history of the L.A. filmmaking industry back to the early 1900s.
Organized by associate curator Dara Jaffe alongside Gary Dauphin, the museums associate curator of digital presentations, the immersive exhibition will focus on the predominantly Jewish founders of the early Hollywood studio system, delving into how their personal narratives shaped the distinct characteristics of the movies their respective studios produced, according to the Academy Museum.
Additional additions to the museum include costumes, props, awards and media including Gregory Pecks Oscar for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, scripts and storyboards from Alfred Hitchcocks films Rebecca (1940) and The Birds (1963) and costumes designed by Edith Head, Ann Roth and Travis Banton, including some worn by Anna May Wong and Joan Crawford.
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