Representing all branches of the Academy, the 55-person Board of Governors is responsible for the governance, corporate oversight, and strategic direction of the Academy. Governors have a fiduciary responsibility to the Academy and preserve the institution’s financial health while ensuring fulfillment of the Academy’s mission.
The board approves annual goals and the annual budget presented by the CEO, and it approves policies concerning governance, membership and awards. Governors generally attend 7-10 board meetings annually and serve on a board committee. Governors also serve on their branch’s executive committee and are expected to attend Academy events throughout the year.
CEO Bill Kramer oversees a staff of more than 700 who conduct the Academy’s day-to-day business.
Officers 2023 - 2024
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, Zero Effect, and Over The Moon. She won an Emmy for the HBO film Indictment: The McMartin Trial. Ms. Yang is a Governor-at-Large.
Vice President - 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). Ms. Arnold is a governor of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch.
Vice President - 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. Mr. Berger is a governor of the Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch.
Vice President - Brooke Breton
Ms. Breton has been involved in a wide variety of films that 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 visual effects field, Breton was instrumental in the startup of Digital Domain and DreamWorks Animation. Ms. Breton is a governor of the Visual Effects Branch.
Vice President/Treasurer - 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. Mr. Duffield’s is a governor of the Production Design Branch.
Vice President - 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. Mr. Franklin is a Governor-at-Large.
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/Secretary - 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. Mr. Rodman is a governor of the Writers 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.
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 2023 - 2024
Actors Branch
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.
Lou Diamond Phillips
Lou Diamond Phillips has in excess of 150 film and TV credits including La Bamba, Stand and Deliver, and Young Guns, garnering numerous accolades including an Independent Spirit Award and nominations for two Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a Tony. He has served on the SAG-AFTRA National Board, SAG Foundation Board, and Advisory Boards for CAPE, ACT Today, and The University of Texas at Arlington.
Rita Wilson
Rita Wilson has acted in over thirty films including Asteroid City, Kimi, Sleepless in Seattle, It’s Complicated, Runaway Bride, Mixed Nuts, Jingle All the Way, That Thing You Do. She produced A Man Called Otto, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 1 and 2 (2003 Producers Guild Visionary Award), and executive produced the Mamma Mia franchise. Her song “Til You’re Home” was shortlisted for Best Song for the 2023 Oscars.
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 Paramount+’s Special Ops: Lioness, HBO’s Westworld, and was the D.P. for acclaimed movies Man on Fire, Reminiscence, Pirates of the Caribbean, Collateral, Swordfish, Gone in Sixty Seconds. Cameron is a one-time BAFTA winner and also has won Emmy, Clio, and AICP awards.
Ellen Kuras
Oscar nominated for her film The Betrayal/Nerakhoon, Ms. Kuras is a two-time Primetime Emmy winner. Her credits include Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blow, Summer of Sam, Wormwood, Rolling Thunder Revue, and, as a director, Ozark and Catch 22.
Costume Designers Branch
Ruth E. Carter
Two-time Oscar-winner for Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Ms. Carter makes history as the first African-American to win the Costume Design category and most winning African-American woman in Academy history. A four-time Oscar-nominee, including Malcolm X and Amistad, Ms. Carter has 58 feature film credits including Do the Right Thing, What’s Love Got To Do With It, The Butler, and Selma. She also received the 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 he is the recipient of 5 Costume Designers Guild Awards, including the Career Achievement Award in 2013.
Daniel Orlandi
Emmy-winning Daniel Orlandi’s credits include Logan, The Blindside, Frost/Nixon, Ford V Ferrari, and The Da Vinci Code. He was nominated for the BAFTA for Saving Mr. Banks and was nominated for 3 Costume Designers Guild Awards.
Directors Branch
Susanne Bier
Ms. Bier is Director of the Oscar & Golden Globe-winning film, In a Better World, & Emmy-winning Director for the series The Night Manager. Her film After the Wedding received a Foreign language Film Oscar nomination. Other credits include Things We Lost in the Fire, the original Brothers, Open Hearts, Bird Box, The Undoing & The First Lady. Ms. Bier co-chairs the International Feature Film committee.
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
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.
Simon Kilmurry
Simon Kilmurry is a documentary producer & executive producer. He has received a Primetime Emmy, 17 News & Doc Emmys, and eight Peabodies. Current films: Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (Venice & Telluride Festivals 2022), My Name is Andrea (Tribeca 2022), and El Equipo (Hot Docs 2022). He was executive director of IDA (2015-21) and the executive producer of POV on PBS (2007-15).
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.
Hannah Minghella
Hannah Minghella serves as President of Motion Pictures at Bad Robot. Most recently, Minghella produced the Oscar winning adaptation of Charlie Mackesy’s book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. She is currently overseeing a broad slate of live action and animated movies for the company. Prior to Bad Robot, Minghella spent 14 years at Sony Pictures Entertainment, most recently as President of TriStar Pictures.
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’s feature editing credits include Avatar: The Way of Water, the original Avatar, for which he received an Oscar nomination, 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 films 3,4, 7 & 8 in the Fast and the Furious franchise.
Marketing and Public Relations Branch
Megan Colligan
Megan Colligan was most recently the President of IMAX Entertainment. 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.
David Dinerstein
David Dinerstein won an Academy Award for producing Summer Of Soul. He was a studio executive at 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and Miramax Films. He has been involved in the production, marketing or distribution on over 200 films including Pulp Fiction, American Hustle, Her, The Illusionist, The Ice Storm, You Can Count On Me, The Full Monty, Paris Is Burning and Hustle & Flow.
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.
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 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.
Richard Gibbs
His film and TV scores range from Say Anything, Dr. Dolittle, and the Simpsons to Queen of the Damned, 10 Things I Hate About You, and Battlestar Galacitica. His studio, Woodshed Recording, has hosted U2, Chance the Rapper, Barbra Streisand, Coldplay, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus and many dozens more. He served as musical director for Chaka Khan, Tracey Ullman and the Muppets. Produced Eisley and Korn. Founder of Armory of Harmony, a 501c3 transforming guns into musical instruments.
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 and Technology Branch
Wendy Aylsworth
Wendy Aylsworth provides strategic guidance for entertainment technology companies. She transitioned the industry to digital cinema and converted theaters to show the Hobbit trilogy in HFR (WB). She developed/managed digital animation workflows for hits as Space Jam (WB) and Lion King (Disney). She has a Lifetime Achievement Emmy from the Television Academy and the Progress Medal from the SMPTE.
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.
Kalina Ivanov
Bulgarian-born. Most recently designed The Boys In The Boat, directed by George Clooney. Other notable films include The Tender Bar, the Oscar-nominated Little Miss Sunshine, Long Shot, Wonder, and Smoke. TV credits include the award-winning Lovecraft Country. Primetime Emmy and ADG Awards for the film Grey Gardens. Co-founder of the Production Designers Collective.
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.
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).
Jinko Gotoh
Jinko Gotoh is an award-winning producer. Her screen credits include Academy Award nominated Klaus, The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, The Little Prince, Academy Award nominated Illusionist, Oscar-winning Finding Nemo, and Dinosaur. She started her animation career on Space Jam.
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.
Mark P. Stoeckinger
Mark Stoeckinger has been working as a supervising sound editor for over 40 years with more than 100 credits earning Academy Award nominations for Face Off, Star Trek and Unstoppable. He has served on the Sound Branch Executive Committee for 12 years. Mark has also been active in industry outreach and mentor programs through Formosa Group and the Academy Gold Program.
Visual Effects Branch
Rob Bredow
Rob Bredow is an Academy Award nominated VFX Supervisor (SOLO: A Star Wars Story) with visual effects credits dating back to Independence Day. He has served as producer on several recent shows and currently serves as Chief Creative Officer of Industrial Light & Magic and SVP, Creative Innovation for Lucasfilm. He chairs the Academy Software Foundation and has previously served as CTO at Sony Pictures and Lucasfilm.
Brooke Breton
Ms. Breton has been involved in a wide variety of films that 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 visual effects field, Breton was instrumental in the startup of Digital Domain and DreamWorks Animation.
Paul Debevec
Paul Debevec is Chief Research Officer at Netflix’s Eyeline Studios 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, Benjamin Button, Avatar, Gravity, Furious 7, and Blade Runner: 2049.
Writers Branch
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, & Dune. He wrote Mr. Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August, The Horse Whisperer, Ali, & Best Picture Nominee Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. He was a producer of the Best Picture Nominee Mank. He has written some 30 motion pictures and received the WGA Laurel Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Dana Stevens
Ms. Stevens has written seven feature films, including For Love of the Game, City of Angels, Fatherhood, and most recently The Woman King, for which she was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. She has served on the final selection committee for the Nicholl Fellowship and as a longtime artistic advisor at the Sundance Writers Labs.
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, Zero Effect, and Over The Moon. She won an Emmy for the HBO film Indictment: The McMartin Trial.