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Academy Elects Ava DuVernay, Whoopi Goldberg to Board of Governors
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thewrap.comAlso Read: Oscars Board Election Has New Rules - But Expect the Same Old ResultsOf the 13 incumbents who were running, 10 won, a 77% success rate that is about normal for Academy board elections.
The three new governors who defeated incumbents are DuVernay, who won in a field that included incumbent Peirce and former governor Michael Mann as well as Jason Reitman, Reginald Hudlin and Brett Ratner; Rob Bredow, who beat veteran board member Richard Edlund for a seat in the Visual Effects Branch; and Jon Bloom, who returned to the board by defeating incumbent Tom Sito in the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch, where Bloom will be the only governor who predominantly works in short films rather than animation.The other new governors were.
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