The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the newly elected Board of Governors for the 2026-2027 term year.
The new board is comprised of a mixture of new faces to the board, like director Guillermo del Toro and composer Kris Bowers, returning incumbents like actor Lou Diamond Phillips and executive Hannah Minghella, and familiar names rejoining after a hiatus, including animation and documentary legends Bonnie Arnold and Roger Ross Williams.
The new term also ushers in a structural change. Under a bylaws amendment approved by the board in February, all 19 Academy branches will now have three branch-elected governors apiece, adding seats to the Animation, Production and Technology, and Short Films branches. The change adds five branch-elected seats to the board, bringing the total to 60 industry figures sitting on the Academy’s vital group. To stagger the terms, governors in those three branches were elected this year to one-, two- or three-year terms, with the process reverting to the standard one-governor-per-branch, three-year cycle in 2027.
Among the incumbents reelected to serve another term are Phillips (Actors Branch), Jinko Gotoh (Animation Branch), Daniel Orlandi (Costume Designers Branch), Minghella (Executives Branch), David Dinerstein (Marketing and Public Relations Branch), Wendy Aylsworth (Production and Technology Branch), Kalina Ivanov (Production Design Branch), Mark P. Stoeckinger (Sound Branch) and Dana Stevens (Writers Branch).
