For the third year in a row producer Janet Yang has been elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by the organization’s Board of Governors. The news comes with the results for who the newly elected Academy Board of Governors 2024-2025 officers are as well.
In response to the announcement, Academy CEO Bill Kramer said via statement, “I am thrilled to have Janet return as Academy President for a third term to continue our great work of the past two years.” Both Yang and Kramer came on board in their current roles at the Academy in summer 2022, months after the tumultuous 94th Oscars where the infamous Slap took place. Since then, the pair have successfully gotten the Academy Awards back on track from a TV ratings standpoint, as well as successfully implementing an inclusion standards initiative, and launching the Academy100 campaign.
The CEO, who just received an early contract renewal himself to stay on through the 100th Oscars, added “I also am so pleased to welcome this year’s incredible slate of dedicated board officers. I look forward to collaborating with our officers and governors to advance the Academy’s mission, serve our global membership, celebrate the work of our international filmmaking community, continue to ensure the financial health of the Academy, and broaden our reach and impact within the industry.”
While Yang begins her third term as president and her sixth year as a Governor-at-Large, a position for which she was nominated by the sitting Academy President and elected by the Board of Governors in 2019 and 2022, she is joined by returnees DeVon Franklin, Vice President (chair, Equity and Inclusion Committee), Lynette Howell Taylor, Vice President (chair, Awards Committee), and Howard A. Rodman, Vice President/Secretary (chair, Governance Committee). In terms of newcomers, producer Donna Gigliotti, who has previously served as an officer, succeeds Tom Duffield as Vice President/Treasurer (chair, Finance Committee), and Lesley Barber, in her first stint as an officer, succeeds Bonnie Arnold as Vice President (chair, Membership Committee).
Academy board members may serve up to two three-year terms (consecutive or non-consecutive), followed by a two-year hiatus, after which eligibility renews for up to two additional three-year terms for a lifetime maximum of 12 years. Officers serve one-year terms, with a maximum of four consecutive years in any one office.
Missing from the announcement are the elected officers for the Academy’s Museum Committee, Education and Outreach Committee, History and Preservation Committee. That is because the oversight of those responsibilities now falls to the Academy Foundation Board, which oversees the public charity work in which the Academy engages. Officers for the Foundation Board will be elected and announced later in August.