The Film Foundation

HFPA Grantee Founded in 1990, The Film Foundation is a non-profit organization, which for the last 28 years has worked for the restoration and preservation of motion pictures. The organization has worked with countless studios and archives in order to properly care for and restore over 800 films, that are later made accessible through museums, learning institutions and festivals all around the globe.

Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan introduced special screenings of films restored thanks to Hollywood Foreign Press Association grants at the American Cinematheque. The program was presented jointly with the Film Foundation as part of the events celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Golden Globe Awards.

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What do films like The Bigamist, MacBeth, Diary of a Chambermaid, Farewell To Arms have in common? Answer: All those films have been saved from extinction by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, their restorations financed by the HFPA. And now another classic will be rescued from the endangered species list:.

In a personal letter to HFPA President Theo Kingma, Martin Scorsese, the founder and chairman of the Film Foundation, thanked the HFPA for supporting the restoration of classic films through generous funds. Because of your passionate commitment, writes Mr Scorsese, future generations will experience a wealth of cinematic treasures that would otherwise have been lost.