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Drew Struzan's Frankenstein poster for Mondo.

Feverish sci-fi buffs aren’t the only ones itching to get their hands on Mondo’s cool, collectible film posters. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will begin archiving one original silk-screen copy of each limited-edition print produced by Alamo Drafthouse’s cinematic art boutique, the Oscars organization said Monday.

Alamo CEO Tim League says the call from the filmmaking institution came “totally out of the blue.”

“I didn’t know we had friends within the Academy,” he told Wired.com by phone.

Mondo’s limited-run posters, created by hot artists like Olly Moss, Tyler Stout and Shepard Fairey, generally focus on sci-fi, horror and cult films both old and new. A recent Director’s Series honored such geek favorites as Guillermo Del Toro and Duncan Jones. Thanks in large part to the Austin, Texas-based indie cinema chain’s taste-maker touch, Mondo’s highly prized art pieces often sell out within minutes of the sales being posted to Twitter.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which stages the Oscars awards each year, routinely includes each studio-produced one-sheet poster as part of its library, but League said Mondo’s popular posters are the first non-Hollywood art to be included.

“They’ve been keeping tabs on what we’ve been doing with our licensed studio posters over the last couple of years and decided that our posters were worthy of being archived right alongside the official movie posters,” League said. “It’s a huge honor to be the first ones outside the studio system to be selected by the Academy.”

Among the first Mondo posters to be collected by the Academy will be a new limited-edition print by veteran artist Drew Struzan inspired by 1931’s Frankenstein film. See it, and other examples of Mondo’s heavily sci-fi- and horror-influenced back catalog, in the gallery above.