Additional New Gifts Made by Eric and Melina Esrailian, Julia and Ken Gouw, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Drs. Kathy Fields and Garry Rayant, and Kimberly Steward and K Period Media Bill Kramer, Director and...

Academy governor and producer DeVon Franklin (“Breakthrough”), The Black List founder Franklin Leonard, producer Debra Martin Chase (“Harriet”), and M88 president and managing partner Phillip Sun,...

ACADEMY REVEALS WINNING NICHOLL SCREENWRITERS   Scripts to be presented at virtual table read in December   Five individuals have been selected as winners of the 2020 Academy Nicholl Fellowships...

Part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Academy Aperture 2025 initiative, “Academy Dialogues: It Starts With Us” is a new series of virtual panels, with conversations about race,...

  “Color-Conscious Casting” discussion with Rodrigo García, Julia Kim, Victoria Thomas and Elvis Mitchell "I think it’s... people of color playing roles that are unexpected, where a character is...

ACADEMY REVEALS 2020 STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD® WINNERS The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted 18 students as winners of the 47th Student Academy Awards® competition.  This year, the...

A conversation with Academy Governor Whoopi Goldberg and civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, on how narrative storytelling is at the...

Listen as Oscar®-nominated director Lee Daniels and Oscar-winning writer Tarell Alvin McCraney discuss their personal and professional journeys navigating the film industry as Black gay men. Emil...

Gates and Rebecca Prime have been named 2020 Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  Their respective book projects, Hollywood Style and the Invention of Blackness...

The Board of Governors directs the Academy’s strategic vision, preserves the organization’s financial health and assures the fulfillment of its mission. Governors attend 6-8 board meetings...