The results are in after members of each of the 19 branches of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences cast ballots to determine who will represent them on the organization’s board of governors for the 2026-2027 term: nine incumbent governors were re-elected; five who previously served as governors and then took mandatory two-year hiatuses from the board were re-elected; and nine were elected as governors for the first time. All will be sworn in at the first scheduled board meeting of the new term just weeks from now.
Rookie governors will include three-time Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro (directors branch), who succeeds Ava DuVernay (mandatory two-year hiatus); composer and Oscar-winning short filmmaker Kris Bowers (music branch), who defeated Richard Gibbs (the sole incumbent who sought re-election and lost); and Oscar-nominated La La Land producer Fred Berger (producers), who succeeds Lynette Howell Taylor (mandatory two-year hiatus).
Also elected for the first time: Anne Goursaud (film editors branch), cutter of several Francis Ford Coppola films, who succeeds Stephen Rivkin (mandatory two-year hiatus); Michael Goi (cinematographers branch), a frequent collaborator of Ryan Murphy, who succeeds Ellen Kuras (mandatory two-year hiatus); and Vice Oscar winner Patricia Dehaney (makeup artists and hairstylists branch), who succeeds Linda Flowers (mandatory two-year hiatus).
