Now in its second year, the Academy Museum Gala is an annual celebration that reflects the museum’s mission to advance the understanding, celebration, and preservation of cinema and to expand knowledge and conversation about cinema as a global art form and cultural force.įollowing a cocktail hour in Fanny’s Restaurant, the RAISE choir lead guests to a Wolfgang puck-inspired dinner on the Dolby Family Terrace. The Pillar Award, designed by the Haas Brothers and fabricated by UAP, is solid cast bronze, hand polished, hand stamped, and triple plated in nickel, copper, and 24k gold. Groundbreaking producer and Academy Museum trustee, Miky Lee received the Pillar Award from Jeffrey Katzenberg acknowledging her exemplary leadership and support for the international film community. The Icon, Visionary, and Vantage Awards, fabricated by UAP, are solid cast stainless steel statuettes inspired by historic versions of the OscarⓇ statuette they are mirror polished by hand and attached to a cast bronze base with an engraved stainless steel nameplate affixed. This year’s Vantage Award was presented by Daniel Kaluuya to Academy Award-winning director, producer, and writer Sir Steve McQueen for his work helping to contextualize and challenge dominant narratives around cinema. The Visionary Award was presented to Academy Award-winning actor Tilda Swinton by longtime friend and collaborator Luca Guadagnino for her extensive body of work that has advanced the art of cinema. George Clooney presented Academy Award-winning actor Julia Roberts with the inaugural Academy Museum Gala Icon Award for her decades-long career in cinema and her significant global cultural impact. The celebratory evening was a star-studded affair that honored four Hollywood icons for their contributions to film both past and present. Dedicated to the arts, sciences, and artists of moviemaking, the gala was generously presented by Rolex-founding supporter and official watch partner of the Academy Museum-and co-chaired by Academy AwardⓇ-winning actor and Academy Museum supporter Halle Berry, Academy Museum trustee and producer Jason Blum, Academy Museum trustee and screenwriter-director-producer Ryan Murphy, and Academy Award-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o.
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The gala’s co-chair roster was extensive and included the likes of Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann, Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner, Chloë Sevigny, Leonardo DiCaprio, Keke Palmer, Lily Collins, and a handful more.Subscribe to our Free Newsletter to Stay Up-To-Date on Events in your Cityĭeets: The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which held its second annual gala tonight, raised $10 million to support the museum’s access, education, and programming initiatives. This time, the evening commenced not only to celebrate the iconic museum, raising $10 million but its 2022 honorees as well: actors Tilda Swinton (The Visionary Award) and Julia Roberts (inaugural Academy Museum Gala Icon Award), director, producer, and writer Sir Steve McQueen (Vantage Award), producer and Academy Museum trustee, Miky Lee (Pillar Award). The still somewhat novelty of the event seemed to evoke a shared excitedness among the collective of passionate film lovers, many of whom were on their way inside the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures for the first time (for some, it was a return visit following the Museum’s opening gala in September of last year). What began as an atypically gloomy day in Los Angeles pivoted for the better, just in time for the earliest of the night’s crowd to begin trickling down the red carpet. When hectic schedules are the norm, it’s a difficult feat, but for the second time, the now annual Academy Museum Gala rang in among the most star-studded gatherings of the year, dedicated to celebrating the art and history of film.
You can count on your hand the number of events that can successfully usher in a hefty guest list conclusive of some of the most prominent figures in Hollywood.
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