Oscars elect new governors, but not a new president (yet)
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced results of elections to its board of governors. The board is comprised of three representatives from each branch except makeup and hair, which only gets one seat.
Four new governors will be James D. Bissell (art directors branch), Lynne Littman (documentaries), Robert G. Friedman (public relations) and Bill Kryer (short films and feature animation).
Tom Hanks returns to the board after taking a year hiatus. Incumbent governors returning include Oscar's biggest loser Kevin O'Connell (sound), Caleb Deschanel (cinematographers), Rob Epstein (documentaries), Tom Sherak (executives), Mark Goldblatt (film editors), Bruce Broughton (music), Mark Johnson (producers), Bill Taylor (visual effects) and James L. Brooks (writers).
Still to be decided by election: who will be the academy's next president? Sid Ganis must step down having served four one-year terms. Most likely ascendant will be one of the academy's three vice presidents: board members Robert Rehme (executives branch), Kathleen Kennedy (producers) or Hawk Koch (producers).
Governors who were not up for reelection and who continue board duty are Rehme, Kennedy and Koch plus Annette Bening and Henry Winkler (actors), Rosemary Brandenburg and Jeffrey Kurland (art directors, Owen Roizman and Vilmos Zsigmond (cinematographers), Martha Coolidge and Curtis Hanson (directors), Richard Pearce (documentaries), Jim Gianopulos and Robert Rehme (executives), Dede Allen and Donn Cambern (film editors), Leonard Engelman (makeup and hair stylists), Charles Fox and Arthur Hamilton (music), Sid Ganis and Marvin Levy (public relations), Carl Bell and John Lasseter (short films and feature animation), Curt Behlmer and Don Hall (sound), Craig Barron and Richard Edlund (visual effects) and Frank Pierson and Phil Robinson (writers).
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