Trustees of the museum include Laura Dern, Tom Hanks, Eva Longoria, Ryan Murphy, David Rubin, Diane von Furstenberg, and more. To organize and plan exhibitions, the museum’s director and president, Bill Kramer, created 17 task-forces composed of industry notables and academy members who represent fields spanning from editing to acting to costume design. “The curatorial team has been in active conversation with all of our branch task forces to construct exhibitions,” says Stewart, “to think about the key figures and objects that should be featured and to give us a stronger sense of what filmmaking entails.” The ever-evolving Stories of Cinema exhibition will be guest-curated by a rotating group, with Spike Lee and Pedro Almodovar among the first to take the helm. And representing the branch of costume design in the task force is the Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter.
The Costume Department
Last year, when Carter joined a task force for the Academy Museum, she was given a mission: to help procure several iconic costumes that had vanished to unknown whereabouts. Among them was a pinstriped suit designed by Bob Mackie for Lady Sings the Blues that seemed to have disappeared after the film had wrapped. The “B” embroidered on the suit’s breast pocket stood, of course, for Billie Holiday, but the suit was especially made for Diana Ross in her Oscar-nominated big-screen debut. Carter explains the imprecise science through which she and the museum’s costume curator Sophia Serrano tracked down missing garments: “We get a clue who to call, and that person tells us to call someone else.” A quick ring to Mr. Mackie himself allowed the museum to verify this garment’s provenance.
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