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Investment income crashed, awards expense rose, museum operating costs kicked in: All in all, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has had a rocky time of it, according to its just-released financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022. As the dust settled, net assets fell to…

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…

In a letter to members this morning Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Dawn Hudson says the 94th Oscars have had the biggest voting turnout in Academy history. Although PricewaterhouseCooopers, AMPAS’ longtime accounting firm, never releases specific results in terms of vote totals for winners and…

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…

UPDATED with more quotes: The Academy's plan unveiled Tuesday to cut Best Editing and seven other categories from this year's live Oscar telecast to resuscitate viewership has received reactions of shock, disappointment, and outrage – and that's from the people who are being polite. "Even though I understand the…

In a letter to members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday, Academy CEO Dawn Hudson said the organization had the “highest ever participation during voting at any time in the Academy’s history.” Hudson notes that ballots were submitted from 82 countries (from 9,487 eligible voters who could…

Any half-conscious observer knew Hollywood's film awards business was pointed toward a reckoning as the audience for the Oscars and other ceremonies collapsed last year. Even I could see it coming, from way out here in the cheap seats, nowhere near Union Station. But now, eight months later, that inevitable settling…

EXCLUSIVE: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Dawn Hudson said Monday that her current term will be her last. She signed a new deal in March of 2020 for what was expected to be three years through May of 2023, but a statement to be released later today does not specify an actual date of her departure…

The Candid service, which monitors nonprofits, just recently posted a Form 990 tax filing from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020, and the news was good for top Academy officers: Salaries were up across the board. Based on the filing—but correcting for an error…

Bahman Ghobadi, the exiled Iranian filmmaker who has won prizes at Cannes, Berlin, San Sebastian and many other international festivals, has penned a letter to the Film Academy saying, “It would be great if we could have one representative from exiled artists.” Read his missive in full below. Ghobadi, who has been in…