Harvard Film Archive

Harvard Film Archive won the 2020 Webby Award for Cultural Institution in the category Web.

[1] The archive was founded in 1979 by Robert Gardner, Vlada K. Petric and Stanley Cavell in Harvard's Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, with grants from the Henry Luce Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

It opened on March 16, 1979, with a screening of Ernst Lubitsch’s silent film, Lady Windermere's Fan.

[2] The archive's first curator was Vlada K. Petric, who expanded the collection and established the year-round regular screenings.

He addressed worries that the archives' absorption in the Library would affect its public film screenings.