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Guardian of the Film Academy’s Treasures Talks Museum and Collection

Guardian of the Film Academy’s Treasures Talks Museum and Collection

On Jan. 13, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Amy Homma, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ director and president, will henceforth also oversee the Academy Collection, which includes some 52 million film-related items held within the Margaret Herrick Library and the Academy Film Archive, ranging from an original script of Citizen Kane to a pair of the ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz. It’s all part of an effort to better organizationally link all aspects of the Academy’s history and preservation efforts, the Academy says. Homma, a 41-year-old wife and mother of two, was born in Chicago to a Jewish mother and a Japanese father. Her dad, who owned a landscape architecture company that sometimes worked on local film productions, once brought his daughter to the set of Uncle Buck to meet John Candy. But where she most enjoyed spending time was at the city’s arts and culture institutions. She went on to get her B.A. in art history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her M.A. in teaching …