Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, film archive and museum in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States

The Pickford Center is a motion picture museum in Hollywood housed in a concrete building spanning multiple levels. The collection holds tens of thousands of films, documents, and other objects stored in specially controlled rooms and screened in a hall with hundreds of seats.

The building was constructed in the 1940s as a broadcast studio and served for decades afterward as a television studio for major networks. In the year 2000 it was converted into a film archive facility.

The center is named after Mary Pickford, a founding member of the Academy, and its 286-seat Linwood Dunn Theater honors the visual effects pioneer. The theater hosts public programs and screenings of Award-eligible films for Academy members. The building also houses the Student Academy Awards, the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting and the Academy Gold internship program.

The Pickford Center stands at 1313 Vine Street in central Hollywood, north of Santa Monica Boulevard. Public screenings and events take place in the 286-seat Linwood Dunn Theater, while the archive vaults and Academy offices are not open to visitors. Check the Academy's program listings before traveling there.

The Academy began storing prints and papers soon after the first Oscars in 1929, but the Film Archive was only formally established in 1991. A 1948 member committee had already set out to acquire every Oscar-winning and nominated film, a rule made official in 1994. The archive moved to Vine Street in 2002.