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Director Curtis Hanson.
photo by Mark Mainz/Getty Images
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Curtis Hanson
2003 Film Foundation
Preservation Award
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Curtis Hanson is a leading voice and committed advocate for film preservation. Focusing on the way in which movies of the past educate and inspire filmmakers of the future, Hanson has championed the cause at film festivals and university campuses throughout the world.
As the honorary Chairman of the UCLA Film and Television Archive since 1999, he has helped to publicize the importance of film preservation by hosting Archive events, moderating panels with filmmakers, and serving as a media spokesperson on preservation issues. Hanson promotes technologies and processes that not only restore the oldest surviving films, but also preserve and protect films that are being made today. As an active member of the Directors Guild, Hanson aided both the DGA and the UCLA Archive in their successful negotiation with the major film studios that resulted in the establishment of the Conservation Collection.
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Diane Keaton interviewed by Hanson after a screening at the UCLA Archive.
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Hanson is also a member of the AMPAS Board of Governors, where he participates in the Academy's preservation efforts and currently serves on the Academy Museum Committee, which is overseeing the creation of the AMPAS museum.
As a filmmaker, Hanson produced, co-wrote and directed L.A. Confidential, which received nine Academy Award® nominations. He and his co-writer, Brian Helgeland, won the screenplay Oscar. Hanson also produced and directed Wonder Boys and 8 Mile.
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Drew Barrymore interviewed by Hanson after a screening at the UCLA Archive.
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Among Hanson's other film directing credits are The River Wild, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Bad Influence and The Bedroom Window, which he also wrote. His other screenplay credits include White Dog, Never Cry Wolf and The Silent Partner.
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Filmmakers for Film Preservation
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The Film Foundation was established in 1990 by Martin Scorsese and seven other eminent directors–Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, Sydney Pollack, Robert Redford and Steven Spielberg–who were joined shortly thereafter by directors Robert Altman and Clint Eastwood. The Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to helping protect and preserve motion picture history.
Through direct funding to the nation's leading archives, the Foundation works to preserve a broad range of films including classic Hollywood productions, avant-garde works, documentaries, newsreels, and silent films from the early days of cinema. The Foundation also creates educational programs, national campaigns and public events to foster greater awareness for film protection and preservation.
Over the past 13 years, the Foundation has been involved in the preservation and restoration of over 200 motion pictures including such legendary films as All About Eve (1950, dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz), How Green Was My Valley (1941, dir. John Ford), It Happened One Night (1932, dir. Frank Capra), The Last Of The Mohicans (1920, dir. Clarence Brown and Maurice Tourneur), The Night Of The Hunter (1955, dir. Charles Laughton), On The Waterfront (1954, dir. Elia Kazan), Seven Men From Now (1956, dir. Budd Boetticher), Shadow Of A Doubt (1943, dir. Alfred Hitchcock), Shadows (1960, dir. John Cassavetes), The Story of G.I. Joe (1945, dir. William Wellman), and many others.
In 2002, the Foundation consolidated with the Artists Rights Foundation of the Directors Guild of America. With this consolidation, the President and Secretary-Treasurer of the DGA became members of the Board of Directors.
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"Historically, film –documentaries, newsreels, movies–provides our best window into the past. Through that window, we see how people lived, how they talked, how they looked (or wished they looked), and how they dreamed."
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Billy Wilder and Curtis Hanson at the Wilder Retrospective hosted by Hanson at AMPAS.
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