Best Director winner Kathryn Bigelow has been elected to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ board of governors, AMPAS announced on Wednesday.
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore was also chosen as a governor for the first time, as was film editor Anne Coates, who won an Oscar for editing “Lawrence of Arabia.”
Although the Academy was criticized for the fact that Bigelow’s win made her the first female Best Director recipient in the organization’s 82-year history, her election means two of the three governors from the directors branch are now women. (Martha Coolidge is the other.)
Seven of the Academy's 43 governors are now women.
One-third of the Academy’s governors – one from each of the organizations 15 branches — are up for re-election every year. Governors may serve three consecutive three-year terms.
Governors elected this year include three who are returning to the board after a hiatus: John Bailey from the cinematographers branch, Ed Begley Jr. from the actors branch and Jon Bloom from the short films and feature animation branch.
Re-elected governors are Curt Behlmer from the sound branch; Rosemary Brandenburg, art directors; Richard Edlund, visual effects; Leonard Engelman, makeup artists and hairstylists; Charles Fox, music; Jim Gianopulos, executives; Hawk Koch, producers; Marvin Levy, public relations; and Frank Pierson, writers.
Each Academy branch is represented by three governors, except the makeup artists and hairstylists, who are represented by one.
The current makeup of the AMPAS board of governors:
Actors Branch:
Ed Begley Jr.
Annette Bening
Tom Hanks
Art Directors Branch:
Jim Bissell
Rosemary Brandenburg
Jeffrey Kurland
Cinematographers Branch:
John Bailey
Caleb Deschanel
Owen Roizman
Directors Branch:
Kathryn Bigelow
Martha Coolidge
Edward Zwick
Documentary Branch:
Rob Epstein
Lynne Littman
Michael Moore
Executives Branch:
Jim Gianopulos
Robert Rehme
Tom Sherak
Film Editors Branch:
Donn Cambern
Anne Coates
Mark Goldblatt
Music Branch:
Bruce Broughton
Charles Fox
Arthur Hamilton
Makeup Artists and Hairstylists:
Leonard Engleman
Producers Branch:
Mark Johnson
Kathleen Kennedy
Hawk Koch
Public Relations Branch:
Robert G. Friedman
Sid Ganis
Marvin Levy
Short Films and Feature Animation:
Jon Bloom
Bill Kroyer
John Lasseter
Sound Branch:
Curt Behlmer
Don Hall
Kevin O’Connell
Visual Effects:
Craig Barron
Richard Edlund
Bill Taylor
Writers Branch:
James L. Brooks
Frank Pierson
Phil Robinson
