Academy off Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Founded the May 11th 1927 in California, the Academy off Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS , in French: academy of arts and sciences of the cinema ) is an professional organization dedicated to the improvement of the Cinéma.
The Academy is made up of more than 6000 members, resulting from the professional world of the cinema. Although the very large majority of its member comes from the the United States, the Academy accepts the affiliation of the professionals of the cinema of the whole world. In 2004, the Academy counted among its members of the representatives of 36 different countries.
The organization is known in the world for its annual ceremony of handing-over of the Oscars. In addition to this major event, the academy rewards for the young realizers at the secondary and university levels. It also holds the library Margaret Herrick with Beverly Hills and the Pickford Center for the Study of the Cinema with Hollywood.
The current president of the AMPAS is Sid Ganis.
36 founders of the Academy
Actors- Richard Barthelmess
- Jack Holt
- Conrad Nagel
- Milton Sills
- Douglas Fairbanks
- Harold Lloyd
Realizers
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Frank Lloyd
- Henry King
- Fred Niblo
- John Mr. Stahl
- Raoul Walsh
Writers
- Joseph Farnham
- Benjamin F. Glazer
- Jeanie MacPherson
- Bess Meredyth
- Carey Wilson
- Frank Woods
Technicians
- J, Arthur Ball
- Cedric Gibbons
- Roy J. Pomeroy
Producing
- Fred Beetson
- Charles H. Christie
- Sid Grauman
- Milton E. Hoffman
- Jesse L. Lasky
- Mr. C. Raised
- Louis B. Mayer
- Joseph Mr. Schenck
- Irving Thalberg
- Harry Warner
- Jack Warner
- Mary Pickford
- Harry Rapf
Lawyers
- Edwin Loeb
- George W. Cohen
Presidents of the Academy
The presidents are elected for a one year mandate, and cannot be elected for more than four consecutive mandates.-
Douglas Fairbanks 1927-1929
- William C. DeMille 1929-1931
- Mr. C. Raised 1931-1932
- Conrad Nagel 1932-1933
- J. Theodore Reed 1933-1934
- Frank Lloyd 1934-1935
- Frank Capra 1935-1939
- Walter Wanger 1939-1941, 1941-1945
- White beet Davis 1941 (resigned after two months)
- Jean Hersholt 1945-1949
- Charles Brackett 1949-1955
- George Seaton 1955-1958
- George Stevens 1958-1959
- B.B. Kahane 1959-1960 (deceased in function)
- Valentine Davies 1960-1961 (deceased in function)
- Wendell Corey 1961-1963
- Arthur Freed 1963-1967
- Gregory Peck 1967-1970
- Daniel Taradash 1970-1973
- Walter Mirisch 1973-1977
- Howard W. Koch 1977-1979
- Fay Kanin 1979-1983
- Gene Allen 1983-1985
- Robert Wise 1985-1988
- Richard Kahn 1988-1989
- Karl Malden 1989-1992
- Robert Rehme 1992-1993, 1997-2001
- Arthur Hiller 1993-1997
- Frank R. Pierson 2001-2005
- Sid Ganis 2005 -
Current administration of the Academy
- President - Sid Ganis
- First Vice-president - Robert Rehme
- Vice-president - Tom Hanks
- Vice-president - Arthur Hamilton
- Treasurer - Donald C. Rogers
- Secretary - Kathy Bates
- Executive director - Bruce Davis
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management Committee:
- Dede Allen
- Michael Apted
- Craig Barron
- Kathy Bates
- ED Begley Jr.
- Carl A. Bell
- Charles Bernstein
- Jon Bloom
- Rosemary Brandenburg
- Bruce Broughton
- Gift Cambern
- Roger Deakins
- Caleb Deschanel
- Arthur Dong
- Richard Edlund
- Jonathan Erland
- Sid Ganis
- James NR. Gianopulos
- Larry Gordon
- Arthur Hamilton
- Tom Hanks
- Curtis Hanson
- J. Paul Huntsman
- Cheryl Boone Isaacs
- Fay Kanin
- Kathleen Kennedy
- Howard " Hawk" Koch
- Jeffrey Kurland
- John Lasseter
- Marvin Levy
- Michael Mann
- Freida Lee Mock
- Kevin O' Connell
- Jeannine Oppewal
- Alexander Payne
- Frank R. Pierson
- Robert Rehme
- Phil Alden Robinson
- Donald C. Rogers
- Owen Roizman
- Tom Rolf
- Tom Sherak
External bonds
- Academy off Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- the base of official data of the academy of the winners and nominated
- library Margaret Herrick
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