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From too many years in and around the movie business, I've consciously kept exactly one souvenir. It's a smallish chip of concrete, about 3" x 4", with some daubs of red and blue paint. Ray Stark gave it to me not quite thirty years ago. He was just back from the Berlin Film Festival, which in February of 1990 had…

One of Hollywood's most respected casting directors cast himself in a thankless new role last week. As the new president of the Motion Picture Academy, David Rubin conveys a smooth self-confidence, but that likely will change. His predecessor, John Bailey, a cinematographer, became dour and defensive during his term…

The George Lucas Family Foundation has provided what the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences calls a “transformative grant” in support of the Academy Museum's educational mission. Kerry Brougher, Director of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, did not reveal the amount of the Star Wars creator’s donation…

Deborah Horowitz, a top executive at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has left her position, Deadline has learned. "The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures confirms the departure of Deputy Director for Creative Content and Programming Deborah Horowitz,” an Academy Museum spokesperson said in a statement Monday…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday sent members its annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018, along with a video review of the year. As predicted, the big number was really big: Total assets of the nonprofit rose to $1,073,953,000, up almost 12 percent from 961,531,100 a year…

It's that time of year again—not just for the Oscars, but for an annual financial report from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which grants them. Based on recent practice, it's likely that Academy members will get a look at their yearly report this month, before the February 24 awards presentation…

When it opens its doors late next year, the $388 million Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will feature exhibits designed to capture the interest of movie fans and historians alike, making it "the first institution of its scope and scale devoted to the past, present, and future of cinema," the Museum said today in…

Members of the Film Academy's board of governors serve without pay, but some are rewarded handsomely for their service. Since 2005, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has paid out more than $1 million to its governors for services related to the Academy Awards, its annual Governors Awards and its $388…

Rich Cherry is resigning as Chief Operating Officer of the Film Academy's under-construction movie museum after barely a year on the job, an Academy Museum spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday. In a statement, the spokesperson said Cherry would leave at the end of February. “We wish him success as he focuses on his…

Assets of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences surged in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2016, to $884.1 million from $549.1 million the year before, according to an annual report posted Tuesday on the group's website. But liabilities also rose, to $392.4 million from $101.2 million in 2015, as the Academy…

Things were quiet around 3:05 PM on Tuesday at the Miracle Mile construction site of the film academy’s new movie museum. Along Wilshire Blvd., a passer-by was enjoying what seemed to be a puff of medical marijuana. On Fairfax, a guy with no shirt or shoes dangled from the sidewalk scaffold, then wandered across the…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday named a veteran fund-raiser, Katharine Deshaw, to fill a long-vacant post overseeing the funding operation for its planned movie museum. Starting Nov. 1, the Academy said, Deshaw will serve as managing director, advancement and external relations, for the…