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 annually (in person or by video conference when out of town). Each Governor also serves on one board oversight committee and their branch’s executive committee, and they are expected to represent their branch at numerous Academy events through the year.
Governors have fiduciary responsibilities imposed by state law to serve the Academy’s best interests, by acting with responsibility and care when approving annual goals presented by management, as well as major policies concerning governance.
CEO Bill Kramer oversees a staff of more than 700 who conduct the Academy’s day-to-day business.
Officers 2022 - 2023
President - Janet Yang
Ms. Yang, a member of the Producers Branch, began her career in China in distribution. Her extensive film and TV producing credits include The Joy Luck Club, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Shanghai Calling, High Crimes, Dark Matter, and Zero Effect. She won an Emmy for the HBO film, Indictment: The McMartin Trial. Her upcoming films include the animated feature, Over the Moon. Ms. Yang is a Governor-at-Large.
Vice President - Teri E. Dorman
Ms. Dorman has worked on over 140 films. Her credits include La La Land, Foxcatcher, Unstoppable, Amazing Spider-Man, Moneyball, Pirates of the Caribbean series, Spy Game, Man on Fire, Pearl Harbor, Prince of Tides, Lethal Weapon 2, Bird, Top Gun, and The Deer Hunter. Ms. Dorman is a governor of the Sound Branch.
Vice President/Secretary - Donna Gigliotti
Ms. Gigliotti is one of only nine women to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. She received the 1998 Oscar for producing Shakespeare In Love. She received three additional Academy Award nominations for Best Picture: Hidden Figures (2016), Silver Linings Playbook (2013), and The Reader (2008). She is President of Tempesta Films, a film production company based in New York. Ms. Gigliotti is a governor of the Executives Branch.
Vice President - Lynette Howell Taylor
Ms. Howell Taylor has produced over 25 films in the last 15 years, including Bradley Cooper's A Star is Born, which received 8 Academy Award nominations. Most recently, she served as Executive Producer on Derek Cianfrance’s HBO limited series I Know This Much is True as well as produced the 92nd Academy Awards. Her film credits include Captain Fantastic, The Accountant, and Blue Valentine. Ms. Howell Taylor is a governor of the Producers Branch.
Vice President - Larry Karaszewski
Mr. Karaszewski is known for unusual true stories written in tandem with Scott Alexander. Their feature film credits include the Oscar-winning Ed Wood, The People vs.Larry Flynt, Man on the Moon, Big Eyes, & Dolemite is My Name. Mr. Karaszewski co-chairs the International Feature Film category & won the Emmy, Golden Globe, PGA & WGA Award for The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. Mr. Karaszewski is a governor of the Writers Branch.
Vice President/Treasurer - David Linde
Mr. Linde is Chief Executive Officer at Participant. He has held executive, founder, and producer roles at Lava Bear Films, Universal Pictures, Focus Features, and Good Machine. He also received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture for Arrival in 2017. Mr. Linde is a governor of the Executives Branch.
Vice President - Isis Mussenden
Ms. Mussenden’s credits include The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe (and two additional sequels), American Psycho, and The Wolverine. In addition, she was the first costume designer to receive costume-design credit for animation: Shrek, Shrek 2, and Puss in Boots. Ms. Mussenden is a governor of the Costume Designers Branch.
Vice President - Kim Taylor-Coleman
Mrs. Coleman has been a casting director for over 20 years. Feature credits include Space Jam: A New Legacy, Cheaper By the Dozen, Da 5 Bloods, Harriet, Blackkklansman, and Tyler Perry's films and television shows. Television credits include Lovecraft Country, The Good Lord Bird, Genius: Aretha. She received an Emmy nomination for American Crime. Mrs. Coleman is a governor of the Casting Directors Branch.
Vice President - Wynn P. Thomas
Mr. Thomas's credits include Hidden Figures, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, Mars Attacks, Malcolm X, and Do the Right Thing. Mr. Thomas is a governor of the Production Design Branch.
CEO - Bill Kramer
Prior to becoming the Academy's CEO in 2022, Mr. Kramer was the Director and President of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which opened under his leadership. He has also served in senior fundraising and external relations roles at the Sundance Institute, Brooklyn Academy of Music, California Institute of the Arts, Columbia University School of the Arts, and Rhode Island School of Design.
Governors 2022 - 2023
Actors Branch
Whoopi Goldberg
Oscar-winner for Ghost and nominated for The Color Purple, she hosted the Academy Awards four times. Feature credits include Soapdish, Corrina, Corrina, two Sister Act films, and The Lion King. A Grammy, Emmy, and Tony-winner as well as Ambassador for the UN, she was also a recipient of the Mark Twain Prize.
Marlee Matlin
Marlee became the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor in her debut performance in Children of A Lesser God. She went on to star in Walker, Hear No Evil, and the Oscar winning Best Picture, CODA. Marlee was an Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated Live Action Short, Feeling Through.
Rita Wilson
Rita Wilson has acted in over thirty films including, Kimi, Sleepless in Seattle, It’s Complicated, Runaway Bride, Mixed Nuts, Jingle All the Way, That Thing You Do, and Gloria Bell. She produced My Big Fat Greek Wedding, (2003 Producers Guild Visionary Award), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, and executive produced Mamma Mia! and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
Casting Directors Branch
Richard Hicks
Mr. Hicks’ nearly 30-year career as a casting director includes over 80 motion pictures, including Hell or High Water, Zero Dark Thirty, Gravity, and Lars and the Real Girl. Richard is an Emmy winner, a past president of the Casting Society (CSA), and a graduate of RADA.
Kim Taylor-Coleman
Mrs. Coleman has been a casting director for over 20 years. Feature credits include Space Jam: A New Legacy, Cheaper By the Dozen, Da 5 Bloods, Harriet, Blackkklansman, and Tyler Perry's films and television shows. Television credits include Lovecraft Country, The Good Lord Bird, Genius: Aretha. She received an Emmy nomination for American Crime.
Debra Zane
Ms. Zane has been a casting director for nearly three decades. Her feature credits include Mulan, The Hunger Games trilogy, The Planet of the Apes trilogy, Dreamgirls, Seabiscuit, Catch Me If You Can, Traffic, Galaxy Quest, and American Beauty. Debra is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.
Cinematographers Branch
Dion Beebe
Australian-born cinematographer. Nominated twice, Beebe won the Oscar for his work on Memoirs of a Geisha. A two-time BAFTA winner, Dion’s other credits include Collateral, Chicago, Into the Woods, and Edge of Tomorrow.
Paul Cameron
Paul Cameron’s groundbreaking work has established his place in the canon of cinematography. He has directed multiple episodes of HBO’s Westworld, and was the D.P. for acclaimed movies Reminiscence, 21 Bridges, Pirates of the Caribbean, Collateral, Total Recall, Swordfish, Gone in Sixty Seconds, and other remarkable films. Cameron also has won both Clio and AICP awards.
Mandy Walker
Ms. Walker's credits include Mulan, Hidden Figures, Australia, Shattered Glass, and Lantana. She was inducted into the Hall of Fame of The Australian Cinematographers Society in 2017, and was an artist in residence at UCLA in 2015.
Costume Designers Branch
Ruth E. Carter
Ms. Carter won an Oscar for Costume Design for Black Panther, making history as the first African-American. A 3-time Academy Award nominee also for Malcom X and Amistad, she has 50 feature film credits including Do the Right Thing, The Butler, Selma, and Marshall and received the 2019 Costume Designers Guild Career Achievement Award.
Eduardo Castro
Mr. Castro’s film credits include Bird on a Wire, Sugar Hill, The Perez Family, Kama Sutra, A Tale of Love, Bride & Prejudice and recipient of 5 Costume Designers Guild Awards, including the Career Achievement Award in 2013.
Isis Mussenden
Ms. Mussenden’s credits include The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe (and two additional sequels), American Psycho, and The Wolverine. In addition, she was the first costume designer to receive costume-design credit for animation: Shrek, Shrek 2, and Puss in Boots.
Directors Branch
Susanne Bier
Ms. Bier is director of the Oscar-winning film, In a Better World, & Emmy-winning director for the series, The Night Manager. Her film After the Wedding received an Oscar nomination in the Foreign Language Film category. Additional credits include Things We Lost in the Fire, the original Brothers, Open Hearts, & Bird Box. Ms. Bier co-chairs the International Feature Film category.
Ava DuVernay
Ms. DuVernay’s directorial work includes Best Picture nominee Selma, Best Documentary nominee 13th, A Wrinkle In Time, Middle Of Nowhere, I Will Follow, Queen Sugar and her Emmy Award winning series When They See Us. She amplifies the work of Black artists, people of color and women of all kinds through her multi-platform arts collective, ARRAY.
Jason Reitman
Mr. Reitman is the Oscar-nominated director of Juno, Up In The Air, Thank You For Smoking, Young Adult, Tully, and Ghostbusters Afterlife. He is the producer of Whiplash, Jennifer's Body, and the series Casual. He has received one Grammy Award and four Academy Award nominations. He is also the co-creator of the LACMA Live Read series.
Documentary Branch
Kate Amend
Ms. Amend is the editor of the Oscar-winning documentaries Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport and The Long Way Home. Other credits include Dave Grusin: Not Enough Time, The Case Against 8, Beah: A Black Woman Speaks, Foster, and Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
Chris Hegedus
Chris has directed, shot, and edited documentaries for over forty years including the Oscar-nominated film The War Room. She received a DGA Award for Startup.com, Emmy awards for Elaine Stritch at Liberty, and an Emmy-nomination for Unlocking the Cage. Other feature credits include Moon Over Broadway, Kings of Pastry, and Depeche Mode 101.
Jean Tsien
Ms. Tsien has been working in documentaries for four decades. Her editing credits include the Oscar-nominated documentary feature Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, and the Primetime Emmy Award winner The Apollo. She recently won two Peabodys for 76 Days, which she produced, and Asian Americans, which she executive produced. In 2020, she received the DOC NYC Lifetime Achievement Award.
Executives Branch
Pam Abdy
Pamela Abdy serves as Co-Chair and CEO of Warner Bros. Pictures Group, encompassing Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, DC-based films and Warner Animation Group.
Donna Gigliotti
Ms. Gigliotti is one of only nine women to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. She received the 1998 Oscar for producing Shakespeare In Love. She received three additional Academy Award nominations for Best Picture: Hidden Figures (2016), Silver Linings Playbook (2013), and The Reader (2008). She is President of Tempesta Films, a film production company based in New York.
David Linde
Mr. Linde is Chief Executive Officer at Participant. He has held executive, founder, and producer roles at Lava Bear Films, Universal Pictures, Focus Features, and Good Machine. He also received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture for Arrival in 2017.
Film Editors Branch
Nancy Richardson
Nancy Richardson’s credits include Stand and Deliver, To Sleep with Anger, Selena, Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, Step Up, and Fighting with my Family. She has served as a Creative Advisor for the Sundance Directors Lab several times. She has also been a professor at UCLA’s Department of Film, Television and Digital Media for 20 years.
Stephen Rivkin
Mr. Rivkin earned an Oscar nomination for his work on “Avatar.” Other film editing credits include Alita: Battle Angel, the first three films of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Ali, The Hurricane, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
Terilyn A. Shropshire
Ms. Shropshire is an award-winning editor whose feature credits include: The Old Guard, Beyond the Lights, The Secret Life of Bees, Talk to Me, Love and Basketball, and Eve’s Bayou. She is a Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award recipient for her commitment to supporting our future rising stars in the craft.
Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch
Howard Berger
Mr. Berger won an Oscar for his makeup work on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and was nominated for Hitchcock. His other feature credits include Dances With Wolves, Lone Survivor, Kill Bill 1 & 2, The Green Mile, and Oz the Great and Powerful.
Bill Corso
Mr. Corso is an Academy Award Winning Makeup Artist for Lemony Snicket’s a Series of Unfortunate Events and nominated twice for Click and Foxcatcher. Feature credits include Deadpool 1&2, Bill and Ted Face the Music, Kong:Skull Island and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Clients include Harrison Ford and Jim Carrey.
Linda Flowers
Ms. Flowers’s credits include Midway, There Will Be Blood, The Social Network, Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Iron Man 2, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Angels and Demons, and Fast and Furious 3,4,7 & 8.
Marketing and Public Relations Branch
Megan Colligan
Megan Colligan is the President, IMAX Entertainment and Executive Vice President, IMAX Corporation. Prior to joining the company, Ms. Colligan served in executive roles at Paramount Pictures, spearheading many of Paramount’s most successful Francine properties and overseeing Paramount’s Home Entertainment division.
Laura C. Kim
Ms. Kim is EVP, Marketing at Participant where she oversees marketing on specialty films including narrative, documentary, international and series on the company’s behalf. Prior to Participant, she founded Inside Job, a marketing and distribution consultancy, served as EVP, Marketing at Warner Independent Pictures and SVP, Film at MPRM.
Christina Kounelias
Ms. Kounelias is the President, Worldwide Marketing and Communications, at Participant, where she oversees global strategy for all marketing, branding, and communications initiatives. Prior to Participant, she served as Chief Marketing Officer at the Academy and previously held senior marketing posts at New Line Cinema, Fox, and Miramax Films.
Music Branch
Lesley Barber
Lesley Barber is best known for her score for Kenny Lonergan’s Oscar-winning Manchester by the Sea. Her other credits include Late Night, Mansfield Park, Irreplaceable You, How To Change The World, and You Can Count on Me amongst others.
Charles Bernstein
Mr. Bernstein is best known for scoring genre classics, A Nightmare on Elm Street (the original), Stephen King’s Cujo, and The Entity, among over 130 feature films and TV movies. His credits also include Inglorious Bastards and Oscar-winning documentaries, Czechoslovakia 1968 and Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision.
Charles Fox
Charles Fox is a returning governor of the Music Branch. He previously served three terms for nine years. He has scored over 100 films. He has two Oscar nominations for best song, won the Grammy Award for Killing Me Softly and won two Emmys for Love American Style. He was inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame in 2004. His Song, “I Got A Name” was featured in Django Unchained.
Producers Branch
Jason Blum
Jason Blum, founder and CEO of Blumhouse, is a three-time Academy Award®-nominated, two-time Primetime Emmy Award-winning and a three-time Peabody Award-winning producer. Blum has produced over 150 movies and television series, including lucrative, iconic, genre franchises like Halloween, Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Happy Death Day, Sinister and The Purge, among several others.
Lynette Howell Taylor
Ms. Howell Taylor has produced over 25 films in the last 15 years, including Bradley Cooper's A Star is Born, which received 8 Academy Award nominations. Most recently, she served as Executive Producer on Derek Cianfrance’s HBO limited series I Know This Much is True as well as produced the 92nd Academy Awards. Her film credits include Captain Fantastic, The Accountant, and Blue Valentine.
Jennifer Todd
Ms. Todd produced the double Oscar-winning film Alice in Wonderland and the Oscar-nominated films Memento and Across the Universe. She recently produced the Emmy-nominated 89th and 90th Annual Academy Awards.
Production Design Branch
Tom Duffield
Mr. Duffield’s credits include Patriots Day, Hell or High Water, Lone Survivor, Broken City, The Kingdom, The Rundown, The Ring, and Ed Wood.
Missy Parker
Missy Parker’s set decorating credits include Hidden Figures, Shaft, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, The Great Wall, and Transformers: Age Of Extinction.
Wynn P. Thomas
Mr. Thomas's credits include Hidden Figures, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, Mars Attacks, Malcolm X, and Do the Right Thing.
Short Films and Feature Animation Branch
Bonnie Arnold
Animation veteran Bonnie Arnold produced the Academy Award-nominated films How to Train Your Dragon and How to Train Your Dragon 2. Additional producing credits include Toy Story, Tarzan, as well as the live-action films, Dances with Wolves and The Last Station. She served as Co-President/President of Feature Animation at DreamWorks Animation (2015-17).
Jon Bloom
Mr. Bloom is an award-winning filmmaker, including his Oscar-nominated live-action short film, Overnight Sensation, which he produced and directed. He has created special montages for the Academy Awards Ceremony, The Governors’ Awards, and other events, as well as the first ever In Memoriam segment on the Oscars telecast. He has served 18 years on the Board of Governors.
Marlon West
Marlon West is an award-winning animator, Head of Effects, and VFX Supervisor at Walt Disney Feature Animation Studios. His credits include The Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Tarzan, Fantasia 2000, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, The Princess and the Frog, Winnie the Pooh, Frozen, Moana, Frozen 2, and Encanto.
Sound Branch
Gary C. Bourgeois
Mr. Bourgeois has been in the film sound business for over 50 years encompassing production sound, scoring and music, rerecording and all elements within that classification. From Documentary to major Feature films, he has embraced mentorship.
Peter Devlin
Born in Belfast and trained by BBC Northern Ireland, Production Sound Mixer and five-time Oscar Nominee Peter Devlin has spent the last 35 years mixing sound in the United States. An Academy member for the last 20 years whilst serving on the Sound Branch Executive Committee for ten years, Peter is also a former board member of CAS. His credits include: Bullet Train, WW84, and Black Panther.
Teri E. Dorman
Ms. Dorman has worked on over 140 films. Her credits include La La Land, Foxcatcher, Unstoppable, Amazing Spider-Man, Moneyball, Pirates of the Caribbean series, Spy Game, Man on Fire, Pearl Harbor, Prince of Tides, Lethal Weapon 2, Bird, Top Gun, and The Deer Hunter.
Visual Effects Branch
Rob Bredow
Rob Bredow is an Academy Award Nominated VFX Supervisor (SOLO: A Star Wars Story) with credits dating back to Independence Day. He serves as Executive Creative Director and Head of Industrial Light & Magic. He chairs the Academy Software Foundation, is a member of the Academy Science and Technology Council, and has previously served as CTO at Sony Pictures and Lucasfilm.
Brooke Breton
Ms. Breton has been involved in a wide variety of films which have received Academy recognition and awards. Key projects include: Avatar, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and Dick Tracy. A veteran in the field of visual effects, Ms. Breton was instrumental in the start up of Digital Domain as well as DreamWorks.
Paul Debevec
Paul Debevec is Director of Research at Netflix and Adjunct Professor at USC. His work in photogrammetry, HDRI, image-based lighting, digital actors, and virtual production has received two Academy Sci-Tech Awards, the SMPTE Progress Medal, and a Lifetime Achievement Emmy. His work has contributed to The Matrix, Spider-Man 2, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Avatar, Gravity, Furious 7, and Blade Runner: 2049.
Writers Branch
Larry Karaszewski
Mr. Karaszewski is known for unusual true stories written in tandem with Scott Alexander. Their feature film credits include the Oscar-winning Ed Wood, The People vs.Larry Flynt, Man on the Moon, Big Eyes, & Dolemite is My Name. Mr. Karaszewski co-chairs the International Feature Film category & won the Emmy, Golden Globe, PGA & WGA Award for The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.
Howard A. Rodman
Mr. Rodman wrote the films Joe Gould's Secret, August, and Savage Grace. He is past president of the WGAW, professor at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, and an artistic director of the Sundance Screenwriting Labs
Eric Roth
Mr. Roth won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump & has been nominated for his screenplays of The Insider, Munich, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, & A Star is Born. He wrote Mr. Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August, The Horse Whisperer, Ali, & Best Picture Nominee, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. He received the WGA Laurel Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Governors-at-Large
(Nominated by the President and elected by the board)
DeVon Franklin
Mr. Franklin, a member of the Executives Branch, is the former SVP of Production for Columbia Pictures Entertainment and now runs his own production company, Franklin Entertainment. He has produced the hit films Breakthrough, The Star, and Miracles from Heaven. He is also a New York Times bestselling author and minister.
Rodrigo García
Mr. García is a former cinematographer, a writer/director, and a member of the Directors Branch. His feature films include Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, Nine Lives, Mother and Child, Albert Nobbs, and Raymond & Ray. Among his pilot directing credits are Carnivale, Big Love, and In Treatment.
Janet Yang
Ms. Yang, a member of the Producers Branch, began her career in China in distribution. Her extensive film and TV producing credits include The Joy Luck Club, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Shanghai Calling, High Crimes, Dark Matter, and Zero Effect. She won an Emmy for the HBO film, Indictment: The McMartin Trial. Her upcoming films include the animated feature, Over the Moon.
nicholl comittee - Nicholl Comittee
Eric Heisserer
Chair - Writers Branch
John Bailey
Cinematographers Branch
Bobbi Banks
Sound Branch
Jason Michael Berman
Producers Branch
Julia Chasman
Producers Branch
Larry Karaszewski
Writers Branch
Adele Lim
Writers Branch
Zak Penn
Writers Branch
Dan Petrie, Jr.
Writers Branch
James Plannette
Members-at-Large
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