Never nominated for an Oscar, Marilyn Monroe is yet getting her owed posthumously from nan Academy. IndieWire tin denote that nan Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will big a 2026 accumulation honoring nan precocious actress. Aptly titled “Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon,” nan accumulation will tally from May 31, 2026 to February 28, 2027. Monroe would person been 100 years aged successful 2026; she died astatine her Brentwood house astatine property 36 successful 1962.
“Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon” will see hundreds of original objects, including posters, portraits, photographs, accumulation documents, letters, and seldom seen individual materials, arsenic good arsenic costumes from Monroe’s astir iconic roles. Highlights see nan rarely exhibited celebrated pinkish dress from “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and 2 costumes from “Some Like it Hot.” There are besides items from Monroe’s last and unfinished film, “Something’s Got to Give.”
The Academy deemed Monroe a “visionary character and image-maker” successful nan announcement of nan exhibition. “Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon” is curated by Associate Curator Sophia Serrano, pinch nan support of Curatorial Assistant Simran Bhalla.
Additional Academy Museum 2026 exhibitions see Studio Ghibli’s “Ponyo” astir nan making of Hayao Miyazaki’s 2008 film, and “Hidden Worlds: The Films of LAIKA” astir nan exertion and artistry of extremity mobility animation from “Coraline” to “Kubo and nan Two Strings.”
LAIKA has a slew of productions successful nan works, ranging from an adaptation of “Piranesi” to bringing Taylor Jenkins Reid’s latest romance caller “Atmosphere” astir 2 female astronauts astatine NASA successful nan ’70s and ’80s to life pinch nan live-action department. “Dune” and “A Minecraft Movie” screenwriter Jon Spaihts will besides make his directorial debut astatine nan workplace pinch an original sci-fi thriller, which is additionally among 1 of nan first live-action movies for nan famed animation house.
“This unthinkable array of exhibitions demonstrates really nan Academy Museum collaborates pinch filmmakers, studios, and collectors to bring to life nan astir compelling histories of cinema,” Amy Homma, Academy Museum Director and President, said. “We each look guardant to welcoming visitors of each ages to observe their favourite films and beryllium introduced to caller behind-the-scenes stories.”
The “Ponyo” accumulation runs from February 14, 2026 to January 10, 2027, pinch nan “Hidden Worlds: The Films of LAIKA” accumulation taking spot from December 13, 2026 to September 9, 2027.