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Here's a wish for Tuesday: Sometime during the day, governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will meet to elect new officers, including a president to replace termed-out David Rubin. I wish they would choose a Great Communicator for the top job. The film Academy already has a…

Bruce Davis, say the notices, is finally ready to publish his monumental history of Hollywood’s film Academy. Twelve years in the making; part memoir, part chronicle; the book—The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—is due this fall from Brandeis…

Here's a thought for a sunny morning: Wouldn't it be nice to see a "daylight slate" in charge of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? If precedent holds, next month will bring the election or re-election of almost one-third of the Academy's 54-member governing board (three governors are diversity…

A previously undisclosed short virtual meeting between Will Smith and Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences President David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson on March 29 could be causing a new crisis to hit the Oscar organization. Reaction To Oscars Slap: Deadline’s Full Coverage The six-minute zoom call initiated by the…

EXCLUSIVE: Calling this a “critical Juncture in our Academy history,” Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Dawn Hudson and president David Rubin joined me for a 30-minute conversation Monday night in their first media interview since changes were announced last week, trying to clarify and explain what is…

Many a metaphor was floated on Tuesday morning as Tom Hanks, Anna Kendrick and others gathered to celebrate the long-awaited September 30 opening of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. To architect Renzo Piano, the museum is not the “Death Star” of Star Wars lore, but a “soap bubble” or “a dirigible”—”a flying…

There were no major shakeups among elected officials at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as David Rubin has been re-elected for his third and final term as president of the Oscars organization. The results come after the AMPAS board of governors met Tuesday to install newly elected governors and…

Later today, the first Tuesday in August, the board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will meet to install newly elected governors and reorganize its officers, pretty much as usual. As usual, the governors will almost certainly elect casting director David Rubin, the Academy's current president, to…

Right before Oscar nominations were announced this morning, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President David Rubin confirmed Deadline’s exclusive from last week that the upcoming 93rd annual Academy Awards show would be coming from both the vast Union Station in downtown Los Angeles and the show’s usual…

“These are not tablets from the mountain,” Paramount Pictures Chairman Jim Gianopulos told me earlier this morning in explaining how the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences went about creating new standards of inclusion and representation for entry in to the Best Picture race. The controversial new…

Casting director David Rubin has been re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by the organization’s board of governors. This will be the second one-year term for Rubin, who earlier in the day was nominated for an Emmy for his casting work on Big Little Lies. The board also elected to…

“We are in Week 7 of the global pandemic and we are looking at everything in front of us, but that Oscar show is 10 months away from us now, and we can’t predict what is happening between now and February 28th,” Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Dawn Hudson said when I asked about a possible date change…