Actor Michael Douglas Donates Film Collection To George Eastman Museum

Actor Michael Douglas is donating his personal collection of 35mm and 16mm films to the George Eastman Museum in Rochester.

Douglas's collection consists of 37 film prints, including more than 30 titles that star or were produced by Douglas over the course of his career.

“When Mr. Douglas visited the museum last spring to receive the George Eastman Award, he saw firsthand the work we are doing in film preservation,” said Bruce Barnes, the director of the museum. “He expressed appreciation and understanding of the long-term care the Moving Image Department staff expertly provide for our collection and felt confident that the Eastman Museum would ensure a safe archival environment for his films."

The donation includes 35mm prints of, among many other films, The China Syndrome (1979), Romancing the Stone (1984), Fatal Attraction (1987), War of the Roses (1989), Basic Instinct (1992), Traffic (2000), and the two films that garnered him Academy Awards for producing and acting: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which won for Best Picture, and Wall Street.

In addition to caring for the prints, the museum will also screen them in the Dryden Theatre as part of its regular film exhibition program.