In addition to handing out the annual Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences celebrates the worlds of filmmaking throughout the year. Currently, the Academy is celebrating stop motion animation and visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen with an exhibit (previously, they awarded him the Academy’s Gordon E. Sawyer Award recognizing technological contributions to the industry in 1992).
“The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen” is a gallery show that has been mounted “with unprecedented cooperation from, and access to, the Ray Harryhausen collection. An incredible array of original models, drawings, storyboards and behind-the-scenes photographs are on view in the Academy’s Fourth Floor Gallery, demonstrating the ingenious film-making process of Harryhausen.”
The show is running through 22 August (Tuesday-Friday 10AM to 5PM, Saturdays and Sundays 12N to 6PM) at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California 90211, and admission is free. For more information, call 310-247-3600, or see this page. (AOL News has this write-up of Harryhausen and the exhibition.) Harryhausen turns 90 this June.