Simply as summer season is nearing its finish, and the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences readies for a few of its greatest occasions of awards season, together with the Academy Museum Gala, the Governors Awards, and finally the 98th Oscars in March 2026, the group’s Board of Governors has elected Oscar-nominated producer Lynette Howell Taylor as its new president.
“Lynette has been an important a part of the Academy Board of Governors for a few years, most lately revitalizing our awards work as chair of the board’s Awards Committee. I so stay up for working along with her as our new Academy President, in addition to with these extremely devoted and strategic board officers. That is an distinctive group of Academy members who will advance the Academy’s mission, help our membership world wide, guarantee our long-term monetary stability, and rejoice the achievements of the worldwide filmmaking neighborhood,” stated Academy CEO Invoice Kramer by way of assertion.
Howell Taylor, producer of such movies as “A Star is Born,” “Blue Valentine,” “Half Nelson,” and this yr’s “The Accountant 2” and “Roofman” is starting her first time period as president throughout her second time period as a governor representing the Producers Department. She beforehand served for 3 years as vice chairman and chair of the Awards Committee, and even produced the 92nd Oscars telecast with Stephanie Allain in 2020, for which she was nominated for an Emmy.
Elected to 2025-2026 officer positions alongside Howell Taylor by the Board are:
Lesley Barber (Music Department), Vice President (chair, Membership Committee)
Jennifer Fox (Producers Department), Vice President (chair, Awards Committee)
Simon Kilmurry (Documentary Department), Vice President/Treasurer (chair, Finance Committee)
Lou Diamond Phillips (Actors Department), Vice President (chair, Fairness and Inclusion Committee)
Howard A. Rodman (Writers Department), Vice President/Secretary (chair, Governance Committee)
Barber and Rodman had been re-elected as officers. It will likely be the primary officer stint for Fox, Kilmurry and Phillips.
Howell Taylor succeeds producer Janet Yang, who was elected as president three years in the past, inside the identical yr Kramer was named Academy CEO. Academy board members could serve as much as two three-year phrases (consecutive or non-consecutive), adopted by a two-year hiatus, after which eligibility renews for as much as two extra three-year phrases for a lifetime most of 12 years. Officers serve one-year phrases, with a most of 4 consecutive years in anybody workplace.
The Board of Governors units the Academy’s strategic imaginative and prescient, preserves the group’s monetary well being and assures the achievement of its mission. The Academy web site has the whole listing of the lately elected 2025-2026 Board of Governors.