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![Animated Features Animated Features for 87th Oscars](/sites/oscars_org/themes/custom/oscars_org/assets/images/placeholder.lazy-load.jpg)
Twenty features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 87th Academy Awards
![Academy Originals Casting director of "E.T." explains how she found Elliott](/sites/oscars_org/themes/custom/oscars_org/assets/images/placeholder.lazy-load.jpg)
Watch how a nine-year-old actor wowed his way into getting to play the best friend of a loveable extra-terrestrial.
![87th Documentary Features 87th Documentary Features](/sites/oscars_org/themes/custom/oscars_org/assets/images/placeholder.lazy-load.jpg)
One hundred thirty-four features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 87th Academy Awards®.
![Vertigo Kim Novak](/sites/oscars_org/themes/custom/oscars_org/assets/images/placeholder.lazy-load.jpg)
Edith Head’s designs for Kim Novak in Vertigo are arguably some of the most important costumes in film history. The film revolves around the idea of identity and appearance with Novak playing dual characters. Madeleine and Judy are defined by their sharply differing styles: one sophisticated and urbane, the other earthy and more vibrant.
![Inside the Studio - Rick Baker Rick Baker Collection](/sites/oscars_org/themes/custom/oscars_org/assets/images/placeholder.lazy-load.jpg)
For over four decades Rick Baker has been making monsters in his sprawling studio. Now he hopes to give some of it back.
![The Costume of Silent Drama Little Annie Rooney - AMPAS](/sites/oscars_org/themes/custom/oscars_org/assets/images/placeholder.lazy-load.jpg)
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Mary Pickford Foundation will continue their annual celebration of silent film with the restoration world premiere of “Little Annie Rooney” (1925) on Monday, November 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Bing Theater on the LACMA campus.
![Casablanca Casablanca](/sites/oscars_org/themes/custom/oscars_org/assets/images/placeholder.lazy-load.jpg)
A look at the real-life emigre story of a Casablanca star
![Let's Go To The Movies: Moby Let's Go To The Movies: Moby: Inland Empire](/sites/oscars_org/themes/custom/oscars_org/assets/images/placeholder.lazy-load.jpg)
In our latest installment of Academy Originals, we asked musician Moby to choose a film from our archives. He picked the experimental David Lynch mystery Inland Empire (2006) and invited a few hundred of his fans to join him in the screening.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the field of Documentary Short Subject contenders for the 87th Academy Awards® has been narrowed to eight films, of which three to five will earn Oscar® nominations.
![THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION With special guests Frank Darabont, Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins](/sites/oscars_org/themes/custom/oscars_org/assets/images/placeholder.lazy-load.jpg)
A 20th anniversary screening of “The Shawshank Redemption”; restorations of Mary Pickford’s “Little Annie Rooney” and Charlie Chaplin’s “The Bank”; a screening series and panel discussion complementing the landmark Hollywood Costume exhibition; and six diverse films from director Edgar G. Ulmer are all part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ November programs. Ticket holders for Hollywood Costume will receive free same-day admission to Hollywood Costume-related public programs.