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UPDATED with more details: Just hours before Chris Rock is set to take the stage in Boston tonight, Will Smith's fate from the actor's rage-filled slap of the comic at Sunday's Oscars now rests in his own hands after a meeting by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors this afternoon. Chris…

As they move to enforce new standards of conduct in the post-Weinstein era, governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have been promising not to become, as their president John Bailey said in October, "an inquisitorial court." But they might find it harder to keep from looking like a movie-land…

In a surprise twist, cinematographer John Bailey became the 36th president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Tuesday night. Bailey, a 74-year-old film veteran with a long record of Academy service, had been quietly talking with insiders about the presidency for some time;  but he largely evaded public…

The best time to speculate is when it's still too early: The possibilities are so much more tantalizing before reality sets in. In that spirit, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is already stirring with early speculation about the likely successor to President Cheryl Boone Isaacs when her term expires in…

EXCLUSIVE: Few things in Hollywood are more secret than the Board Of Governors meetings of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. In fact, an insider tells me that, at one of the most recent conclaves, AMPAS President Hawk Koch "went around the room asking if 'anybody is friends with Nikki Finke?' before…

What really happened behind-the-scenes of the election for a new president of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences tonight? Deadline’s Nikki Finke followed the twists and turns that led to Hawk Koch winning: Make no mistake about it: veteran Hollywood producer Hawk Koch wanted the job “desperately”, in the…

Beverly Hills, CA – Producer Hawk Koch was elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tonight (July 31) by the organization’s Board of Governors. This will be his first term in the office. Koch, who is beginning his ninth year as a governor representing the Producers Branch, has served as…

Beverly Hills, CA – The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Artsand Sciences approved rules for the 85th Academy Awards. The most significant changes affect the Music, Foreign Language Film, Makeup and Visual Effects categories. In the Music (Original Song) category, the Executive Committee may…

Beverly Hills, CA – Cinematographer Richard P. Crudo, producer Gale Anne Hurd, composer David Newman, and film editor Michael Tronick make up this year's first-time electees to Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors. In addition, seven incumbents were reelected and three other motion picture…

The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences just issued this statement about the story I scooped back in June: that the Board of Governors was considering moving up the Oscars to January. The principal reason was so that the Academy Awards would not come last during awards season and have its thunder stolen by the…

EXCLUSIVE: This is truly the end of an era. I’ve just learned that Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences executive director Bruce Davis announced at this evening’s Board Of Governors meeting that he intends to retire on June 30th, 2011, after 30 years working for the world’s preeminent film group. Davis has run AM…

Hollywood-hating conservatives are going to have a field day with this: Beverly Hills, CA – A trio of Oscar® recipients – director Kathryn Bigelow, film editor Anne Coates and documentarian Michael Moore – make up the year's first-time electees to Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors. Coates…