Janet Yang Re-Elected Motion Picture Academy President For Third Term

In a election that was clearly less contentious than the current one for U.S. President, producer Janet Yang was re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by the organization’s Board of Governors. This will be her third consecutive term and comes as no surprise since AMPAS presidents generally are re-elected each year of a possible four single terms as long as they have not been termed out on the Board itself.

Also elected to officer positions by the Board: first-timer Lesley Barber, Vice President (chair, Membership Committee) DeVon Franklin, Vice President (chair, Equity and Inclusion Committee) Donna Gigliotti, Vice President/Treasurer (chair, Finance Committee) Lynette Howell-Taylor, Vice President (chair, Awards Committee) Howard A. Rodman, Vice President/Secretary (chair, Governance Committee)

“I am thrilled to have Janet return as Academy President for a third term to continue our great work of the past two years,” said Academy CEO Bill Kramer. “I also am so pleased to welcome this year’s incredible slate of dedicated board officers. I look forward to collaborating with our officers and governors to advance the Academy’s mission, serve our global membership, celebrate the work of our international filmmaking community, continue to ensure the financial health of the Academy, and broaden our reach and impact within the industry.”

Yang in beginning her third term as president, is also on her sixth year as a Governor-at-Large, a position for which she was nominated by the sitting Academy President and elected by the Board of Governors in 2019 and 2022. Franklin, Howell Taylor and Rodman were re-elected as officers. Gigliotti previously served as an officer. It will be the first officer stint for music branch member Barber.  

A member of the Academy’s Producers Branch since 2002, Yang’s extensive film producing credits include South Central, The Joy Luck Club, The People Vs. Larry Flynt, Zero Effect, Savior, The Weight Of Water, High Crimes, and Over The Moon which was an Oscar nominee for Animated Feature. the Oscar-nominated animated feature “Over the Moon.”  She won an Emmy for the HBO film Indictment: The McMartin Trial.

Academy board members may serve up to two three-year terms (consecutive or non-consecutive), followed by a two-year hiatus, after which eligibility renews for up to two additional three-year terms for a lifetime maximum of 12 years. Officers serve one-year terms, with a maximum of four consecutive years in any one office.