The leadership is set up to only serve its own views and programs. Michael Shamberg seemed to be speaking for many, many others when he filed suit against the Academy to try to obtain a voice and forum for members, not just governors.īut the Academy leadership doesn’t want to hear from the members who are the backbone of the organization, who’ve won awards and made great films. Those are good goals, since there basically isn’t a hint of transparency (quite the opposite) nor engagement. How’s that working out?Ĭieply’s piece suggesting “daylight” (e.g., transparency and engagement) might be a place to start fixing things. The Academy was formed as a means of presenting a positive image for a scandal-ridden industry it was created to award excellence in motion pictures. The management of the Academy isn’t on a slippery slope. Never seen so many bad results made with only good intentions. I would not argue that all that’s gone wrong is being done with bad intentions - quite the opposite.
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It no longer knows what its mission is doesn’t even try to represent the views or wishes of its members and is a public relations fiasco, ranging from the worst decisions on how to “renovate” the Oscars, to managerial ineptitude when something like The Slap occurs on national television. The Academy is a mess from top to bottom. There is an election of governors this week and if the status quo is maintained, soon someone will sell NFTs of the pieces. I’d say it’s a critical point, maybe the last chance to turn about a decade-long crumbling of the institution. Michael Cieply’s recent column about this being a telling moment for AMPAS in some ways is too polite. Michael Cieply: Daydreaming About Daylight At Hollywood's Film Academy The machine that was beginning to break down, is now broken.
Bill Mechanic Jordan Strauss/Invision for Producers Guild of AmericaĪ few years ago now (amazing how time flies during a pandemic), I resigned as a governor from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for two reasons: 1) there were factions on the Board of Governors who wanted everything to be status quo in spite of evidence of mismanagement as well as some foreboding changes coming to the industry and 2) I thought a loud and clear resignation might get the silenced majority of members to speak out and force the changes.
He weighs in on that body’s upcoming elections. He is also a former producer of the Oscars and Oscar-nominated films like Hacksaw Ridge and Coraline, and was a member of the Academy’s Board of Governors before resigning in 2018. Editors Note: Bill Mechanic is chairman and CEO of Pandemonium Films and a former top executive at Paramount, Disney and chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment when that studio generated Titanic, X-Men, Independence Day and Braveheart.
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