Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who guided the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences through some major changes prompted by a controversy over its lack of diversity, was re-elected as the organization’s president, the Academy announced.
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The film academy announced Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016, that Boone Isaacs had been re-elected by its leadership to serve another one-year term as its president.
One of Boone Isaacs’ first orders of business following her re-election will be lining up a producer or producing team to take on the next Academy Awards show, scheduled for February 26.
Academy board members may serve up to three consecutive three-year terms, while officers serve one-year terms, with a maximum of four consecutive years in any one office.
She has worked in Hollywood for 40 years and heads CBI Enterprises, Inc., where she advised on such Oscar winning films as “The Artist” and “The King’s Speech”. In June, the academy invited its largest and most diverse group of new members yet: 683 people, 41 percent of whom are people of color and 46 percent of whom are women.
See the full list of academy officers here.
Along with furthering the academy’s diversity push, Boone Isaacs and the academy’s board will be tasked with selecting producers for the 2017 Oscars telecast and overseeing planning for a new Academy Museum scheduled to open next year.
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One of Boone Isaacs’ first orders of business following her re-election will be lining up a producer or producing team to take on the next Academy Awards show, scheduled for February 26.
