The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will soon be homeless in New York.
The Oscars-dispensing organization is being forced out of what it calls its “East Coast home” — the building at 111 East 59th Street, in which it has leased a 220-seat, state-of-the-art theater for the last 12 years — because landlord Lighthouse International, a vision-loss advocacy organization, has sold the property after merging with another nonprofit.
So, with Oscar season right around the corner, where will the Academy’s roughly 750 New York-based members be able to catch weekly membership screenings, voting screenings and special programs? In a June 24 email, Patrick Harrison, the organization’s popular director of New York programs and membership, indicated that these gatherings “will move to other screening venues until a suitable, permanent location can be secured.”
