Film & Media Studies

organization composed of over 6,000 of the most talented and accomplished men and women working in movies. While some have recognizable faces, many more are behind the scenes, helping to bring magic to the screen. In addition to using their expertise to select the Oscar nominees and winners each year, Academy members generously share their skills and experiences with the public in a variety of programs and activities organized or supported by the Academy throughout the year.

All things movie/film related. Visit to find information on actors, directors, films, and reviews.

The American Film Institute was founded in 1967 as a national arts organization to train filmmakers and preserve America's vanishing film heritage. Visit to watch old movie clips, find lists of Oscar winners, or search their comprehensive filmographic database.

an award-winning website for classic film buffs, students, moviegoers and anyone else interested in the great movies of the last century. Detailed plot synopses, review commentary and film reference material are just some of the features available on the site. The site also contains film analysis, original content, information on the top films and most memorable movie scenes, "Best of..." articles, and the most popular film quotes in all genres of film. Its many resources include a comprehensive overview of film history, a complete survey of the Academy Awards (Oscars), milestones and turning points in the industry, and background and descriptions for hundreds of classic Hollywood/American and other English-language movies from the last one hundred years. In the mid-1990s when it was first launched, filmsite.org was one of the first websites to initiate the trend to select 100 Greatest Films in the history of cinema.

This site provides a by-the-decade introduction to the development of motion pictures and highlights the milestones which helped shape cinema as it is known today.

International salon-journal for philosophical discussion of cinema. Includes in-depth resources for cineastes and film scholars.

If you are interested in film sound, then make sure to visit this site. It offers a glossary of technical sound terms, links to articles, and interviews with sound designers.

Simple site offering papers from conferences and scholarly articles on a wide range of film topics.

A film distributor for some of the world's most important movies throughout film history.

Offers access to old films and authors the national Film Registry preservation list.

Based in Montréal, Offscreen is a wide-ranging film journal that covers film festivals, retrospectives, film forums, and both popular and more academic events.

ScreenSite facilitates the teaching and research of film/TV/new media and is designed principally for educators and students.

Founded in 1959, SCMS is a professional organization of college and university educators, filmmakers, historians, critics, scholars, and others devoted to the study of the moving image.

Know for their award-winning, original film supplements, the Criterion Collection site offers streaming video of classic films as well as what's happening in international art cinema.

From the Film Society of Lincoln Center

UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.