AMPAS Board Of Governors Re-Elects Sherak & Elects Bening And Brooks

Here’s the latest news from AMPAS:

Tom Sherak was re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on August 3rd, 2010 by the organization’s Board of Governors. This will be his second consecutive one-year term in the office. Sherak is beginning his eighth year as a governor representing the Executives Branch. He had previously also served as treasurer for the Academy.

If you remember, Sherak was a big supporter of the Academy’s brow-raising decision to expand the Best Picture Category from 5 to 10 nominees.

Here were the 10 Best Picture Nominees of 2010.

AVATAR

THE BLIND SIDE

DISTRICT 9

AN EDUCATION

THE HURT LOCKER

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL BY SAPPHIRE

A SERIOUS MAN

UP

UP IN THE AIR

In July, Oscar recipients, director Kathryn Bigelow, film editor Anne Coates and documentarian Michael Moore became first-time electees to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences-Board of Governors. In June, Sherak announced that Academy Award-winning producer Bruce Cohen and acclaimed television producer/director Don Mischer will produce the 83rd Academy Awards telecast. Mischer will also serve as the telecast’s director. This will be the first involvement with the Oscar telecast for both men, though the two worked together on the Academy’s inaugural Governors Awards event in November of 2010.

Sherak, a marketing, distribution and production executive with more than four decades of experience in the motion picture industry, is currently a consultant for Marvel Studios and Relativity Media. Previously, Sherak was a partner at Revolution Studios where he oversaw the release of more than 30 films including Black Hawk Down, Anger Management, Rent, and Across the Universe.

Prior to joining Revolution, Sherak was chairman of Twentieth Century Fox Domestic Film Group and served as senior executive vice president of Fox Filmed Entertainment. Previously, he held various positions at Fox, including senior executive vice president, where he oversaw the distribution and post-production of Mrs. Doubtfire, Speed, and Independence Day, among others.

In 1990 Sherak was named executive vice president of Twentieth Century Fox. Prior to that he was president of domestic distribution and marketing for Fox, where he launched such films as Romancing the Stone, Aliens, Wall Street, Die Hard, and Working Girl. He began his career in the industry at Paramount Pictures in 1970.

In addition, Public Relations Branch governor and past Academy president Sid Ganis was elected first vice president; Writers Branch governor James L. Brooks was elected to one vice president post and Phil Robinson, also from the Writers Branch, was re-elected to a vice president post; Producers Branch governor Hawk Koch was re-elected treasurer; and Actors Branch governor Annette Bening was elected secretary. These will be the first officer stints for Brooks and Bening. Academy board members serve three-year terms, while officers serve one-year terms, with a maximum of four consecutive terms in any one office.

Source: oscars.org