Academy’s Board Continues Its Makeover With 11 First-Time Governors
thewrap.comActor Lou Diamond Phillips, documentary filmmaker Simon Kilmurry and writer Dana Stevens are among the 11 film professionals who have been elected to the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy announced on Thursday.Those new governors are part of a wholesale makeover of the AMPAS board prompted by new term limits imposed last year.
In 10 of the 11 branches where first-time governors were elected, the incumbent governors were unable to run again because of those new limits, which restrict governors to two consecutive three-year terms.
Last year, when those limits were instituted, 10 governors were termed off the board and 12 first-time governors were elected.This year’s election means that 23 of the 55 members of the board will be in their first or second term.In the Academy’s 18 branches, all six incumbent governors who were eligible to run again were re-elected.
Those are Debra Zane (Casting Directors Branch), Ava DuVernay (Directors Branch), Steven Rivkin (Film Editors Branch), Linda Flowers (Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch), Lynette Howell Taylor (Producers Branch) and Rob Bredow (Visual Effects Branch).Aside from Phillips, Kilmurry and Stevens, governors who have been elected for the first time are Daniel Orlandi (Costume Designers), Hannah Minghella (Executives), David I.
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