Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Milestone Film & Video, and Outfest UCLA Legacy Project, a partnership between Outfest and UCLA Film & Television Archive.

A tremendous, handmade monument to the lives lost to AIDS, the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt demonstrates that grief and activism together can manifest a powerful symbol of resilience. Winner of the 1989 Academy Award for Documentary Feature, this moving film explores the human stories obscured by statistics, examining the cross-section of identities affected by HIV/AIDS, as well as efforts to combat the stigma, misinformation, and political obstruction that deepened the crisis. 

Winner of the 1989 Academy Award for Documentary Feature

Academy Museum film programming is generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.

Support for the Academy Museum’s Queer Film Programming provided in part by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation.