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Gallery Spotlight: Sound Mixing Blade Runner 2049
Free with General Admission
Fri, Aug 22, 2025
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Blade Runner 2049 in Dolby Vision
The long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott’s sci-fi noir is set three decades later, as a replicant cop named K (Ryan Gosling) investigates a mystery involving a missing blade runner (Harrison Ford, reprising his 1982 role) and a brilliant tycoon (Jared Leto) that threatens to “break the world.” Director Denis Villeneuve and his team of remarkable craftsmen managed a seamless continuation of the world created for the original 1982 film. Roger Deakins received his first Oscar for his evocative cinematography, and the Oscar-winning visual effects team of John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert, and Richard R. Hoover created a future Los Angeles equally dazzling and menacing.
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Gallery Spotlight: Diving into Jaws: The Exhibition
Join us in conversation with Senior Exhibitions Curator Jenny He and Assistant Curator Emily Rauber Rodriguez as they discuss Jaws: The Exhibition, the newest and first-ever exhibition of this scale dedicated to a single film at the Academy Museum. The conversation will explore the development and curation of the exhibition that revisits Jaws (1975) scene by scene, featuring original objects, behind-the-scenes revelations, and interactive moments. This conversation will be moderated by author and professor J.D. Connor
Curator Bios
Jenny He is Senior Exhibitions Curator at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Since 2021, she has curated exhibitions on John Waters, Pedro Almodóvar, Hildur Guðnadóttir, animation filmmakers, special and visual effects artists, and other subjects for the museum. Previously, she independently curated and toured The World of Tim Burton to worldwide institutions, after co-curating the retrospective exhibition Tim Burton at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which toured to venues such as LACMA, Cinémathèque Française, and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. For MoMA, among other exhibitions, Jenny has curated retrospectives on the Coen Brothers, Lillian Gish, and Kathryn Bigelow.
Emily Rauber Rodriguez is an Assistant Curator at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and has contributed to the exhibitions Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, John Waters: Pope of Trash, and Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema. She holds doctoral and master’s degrees in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Southern California. Her scholarly work focuses on race and ethnicity in speculative fiction.
About Gallery Spotlights
During Gallery Spotlights, the Education and Public Engagement team invites visitors to explore the Academy Museum’s ongoing exhibitions that presents the diverse, international, and complex stories of moviemakers and the works they create. If you have any questions or need assistance planning your visit, please email museumeducation@oscars.org.
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Gallery Spotlight: The Terrordome and Afrofuturism with Ngozi Onwurah
Cyberpunk films juxtapose technological advances with social upheaval, ecological crisis, and urban decay. Central to these stories are characters who fight against technology gone haywire, global mega-corporations, or colonialism.
Join the Academy Museum with director and filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah as she discusses the history and impact of Afrofuturism within the cyberpunk genre. They will also discuss the making of Ngozi Onwurah’s first feature, Welcome II the Terrordome (1995), the first theatrically distributed British feature directed by a Black woman.
About Gallery Spotlights
During Gallery Spotlights, the Education and Public Engagement team invites visitors to explore the Academy Museum’s ongoing exhibitions that presents the diverse, international, and complex stories of moviemakers and the works they create. If you have any questions or need assistance planning your visit, please email museumeducation@oscars.org.