Film academy re-elects president pushing diversity efforts
LOS ANGELES – The leadership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has re-elected as its president a film marketing executive who has pushed for greater diversity within the organization.
The academy announced Tuesday night that Cheryl Boone Isaacs has been re-elected to lead the organization that bestows the Academy Awards to another one-year term.
Boone Isaacs has led efforts to increase diversity within the academy’s membership, especially in the wake of two years of all-white acting Oscars nominees that sparked the #OscarsSoWhite backlash against the ceremony.
The academy recently invited 683 new members to join; 46 per cent of the prospective members were female and 41 per cent from minority groups.
As president, Boone Isaacs helps announce the slate of Oscar nominees each year. She also heads a film marketing consulting business.
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