Brett Ratner donates $1 million to Academy museum

Posted by · 2:50 pm · May 29th, 2013

We all know about Brett Ratner’s unfortunate recent history with the Academy. I guess he’s made amends and whatnot but certainly this will go a long way toward smoothing it all out.

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AMPAS launches website for its fancy Academy Museum

Posted by · 7:08 am · April 12th, 2013

Los Angeles museum will contain 290,000 square feet of movie memorabilia.

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David Geffen donates $25 million to the Academy, gets a theater named after him

Posted by · 9:52 am · April 8th, 2013

Lots of rumblings from the lab over at the Academy these days. Details have surfaced on what to really expect from that big May 4 membership meeting and today the organization has announced that entertainment industry magnate David Geffen has donated $25 million to the Academy’s ongoing Museum of Motion Pictures project, which is enough to land his name on the big theater planned for the space.

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