The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization composed of over 6,000 motion picture craftsmen and women.
The purposes of the Academy are to advance the arts and sciences of motion pictures; foster cooperation among creative leaders for cultural,educational and technological progress; recognize outstanding achievements; cooperate on technical research and improvement of methods and equipment; provide a common forum and meeting ground for various branches and crafts; represent the viewpoint of actual creators of the motion picture; and foster educational activities between the professional community and the public-at-large.
The Academy's field of activity does not include economic,labor or political matters.
The Academy was organized in May,1927,as a non-profit corporation chartered under the laws of California.Its original 36 members included production executives and film luminaries of the time.
Douglas Fairbanks,Sr.,was the first president.Others have been William deMille,M.C.Levee,Conrad Nagel,J.Theodore Reed,Frank Lloyd,Frank Capra,Walter Wanger,Bette Davis,Jean Hersholt,Charles Brackett,George Seaton,George Stevens,B.B.Kahane,Valentine Davies,Wendell Corey,Arthur Freed,Gregory Peck,Daniel Taradash,Walter Mirisch,Howard W.Koch,Fay Kanin,Gene Allen,Robert E.Wise,Richard Kahn,Karl Malden,Arthur Hiller,Robert Rehme and Frank Pierson.
From its founding until 1946,when it moved into a building at 9038 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood,the Academy occupied a number of rented offices.In December of 1975,the Academy dedicated its new seven-story headquarters at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills.For the first time in the organization's history,the Players Directory,the Margaret Herrick Library,the Samuel Goldwyn Theater,its administrative offices and other facilities were all located under one roof.
Within a decade,however,the rapid growth of the holdings of both the Herrick Library and the Film Archive had necessitated the search for a new,separate facility.In 1988,a 55-year lease was arranged with the City of Beverly Hills for the conversion of its historic Waterworks building in La Cienega Park into the new home of the Academy's film research facilities,designated as the Center for Motion Picture Study.Another decade later,the growth of the holdings of both the Herrick Library and Film Archive required a search for an additional facility.In 2002 the Academy purchased what had originally been the first Hollywood television studio on Vine Street,and converted it into a home for the Film Archive.In honor of two of the Academy's founders—Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford—the La Cienega facility,which still houses the Herrick Library,was renamed the Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study,and the Vine Street building is now known as the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study.
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