The Academy Reveals Board of Governors for 2025-2026

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has officially announced its recently elected Board of Governors for 2025-2026. The group — which sets nan Academy’s strategical vision, preserves nan organization’s financial health, and assures nan fulfillment of its ngo — will return agency astatine nan first scheduled committee gathering of nan caller term.

First-time committee members see Focus Features chairperson Peter Kujawski and three-time Oscar-nominated composer Carter Burwell. The incumbent governors reelected to nan committee see Oscar-winning character Marlee Matlin, Oscar-nominated shaper Jason Blum, and Oscar-nominated head Jason Reitman (who was besides precocious elected to The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Board of Trustees.) The database of governors returning to nan committee aft a hiatus includes Emmy-winning screenwriter Larry Karaszewski.

The Academy has 19 branches, each represented by 3 governors, isolated from for nan Animation Branch, represented by 2 governors; nan Short Films Branch, represented by 1 governor; and nan Production and Technology Branch, represented by 1 governor. The Production and Technology Branch and Short Films Branch did not clasp elections this clip around.

Governors, including nan board-elected governors-at-large, whitethorn service up to 2 three-year position (consecutive aliases non-consecutive), followed by a two-year hiatus, aft which eligibility renews for up to 2 further three-year position for a life maximum of 12 years.

While nan Academy did not characteristic demographic stats for this word of Governors, the erstwhile year’s 55-member group was 53 percent women, pinch 27 percent of its rank belonging to an underrepresented group aliases taste group.

Incumbent governors reelected to nan Board:

Marlee Matlin, Actors Branch
Marlon West, Animation Branch
Richard Hicks, Casting Directors Branch
Dion Beebe, Cinematographers Branch
Jason Reitman, Directors Branch
Chris Hegedus, Documentary Branch
Nancy Richardson, Film Editors Branch
Jason Blum, Producers Branch
Missy Parker, Production Design Branch
Peter Devlin, Sound Branch

Elected to nan Board for nan first time:

Peter Kujawski, Executives Branch
Gigi Williams, Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch
Carter Burwell, Music Branch
Andrew Roberts, Visual Effects Branch

Returning to nan Board aft a hiatus:

Isis Mussenden, Costume Designers Branch
Christina Kounelias, Marketing and Public Relations Branch
Larry Karaszewski, Writers Branch

They will subordinate returning governors Pam Abdy, Wendy Aylsworth, Lesley Barber, K.K. Barrett, Rob Bredow, Brooke Breton, Paul Cameron, Patricia Cardoso, Eduardo Castro, David Dinerstein, Ava DuVernay, Linda Flowers, Jennifer Fox, Richard Gibbs, Jinko Gotoh, Lynette Howell Taylor, Kalina Ivanov, Simon Kilmurry, Laura C. Kim, Ellen Kuras, Hannah Minghella, Andy Nelson, Daniel Orlandi, Lou Diamond Phillips, Gerald Quist, Stephen Rivkin, Howard A. Rodman, Terilyn A. Shropshire, Dana Stevens, Mark P. Stoeckinger, Chris Tashima, Kim Taylor-Coleman, Jean Tsien, Rita Wilson, and Debra Zane.

New governors-at-large will beryllium elected and announced later this month. The existent 2024-2025 Academy governors database is disposable connected nan Academy website.