{"id":21457,"date":"2026-07-30T00:09:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=21457"},"modified":"2026-07-30T00:09:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:09:48","slug":"lynette-howell-taylor-re-elected-president-of-film-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=21457","title":{"rendered":"Lynette Howell Taylor Re-Elected President of Film Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/lynette-howell-taylor\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lynette-howell-taylor_1\" data-tag=\"lynette-howell-taylor\">Lynette Howell Taylor<\/a> was re-elected president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/academy-motion-picture-arts-sciences\/\" id=\"auto-tag_academy-motion-picture-arts-sciences_1\" data-tag=\"academy-motion-picture-arts-sciences\">Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences<\/a>, Hollywood\u2019s Oscars-dispensing organization, by its board of governors at a meeting on Wednesday morning, the organization just announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHowell Taylor, an Oscar-nominated film producer whose credits include both acclaimed indies (among them 2006\u2019s <em>Half Nelson<\/em>, 2010\u2019s <em>Blue Valentine<\/em> and 2016\u2019s <em>Captain Fantastic<\/em>) and blockbuster studio films (such as 2018\u2019s <em>A Star Is Born<\/em>, for which she received a best picture Oscar nomination), was first elected to the presidency a year ago. The 47-year-old, who, like the Beatles, hails from Liverpool, England, is the 37th person to hold the office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHowell Taylor <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oscars.org\/news\/academy-invites-271-membership\">joined the Academy in 2014<\/a> and was recruited to produce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/inside-story-parasite-oscars-history-1236147380\/\">the 2020 Oscars telecast<\/a> with Stephanie Allain. Later that same year, she was elected to represent the producers branch on the board of governors, and was re-elected to a second term three years later. Term limits require governors, after six consecutive years of service, to step away from the board for at least one year, so Howell Taylor is no longer a governor of the producers branch \u2014 but the board recently passed a bylaw amendment to allow a sitting Academy president to run for re-election to that role until they have served up to four consecutive one-year terms, with the goal of providing greater consistency and continuity to the board. So she remains on the board as an \u201cex oficio governor\u201d \u2014\u00a0a voting member representing the Academy, not a specific branch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAlso elected by the board to 2026-2027 officer positions:<\/p>\n<div class=\"container \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lesley Barber\u00a0(Music Branch), Vice President (chair, Membership Committee)<\/li>\n<li>David Dinerstein\u00a0(Marketing and Public Relations Branch), Vice President\/Treasurer (chair, Finance Committee)<\/li>\n<li>Jennifer Fox\u00a0(Producers Branch), Vice President (chair, Awards Committee)<\/li>\n<li>Lou Diamond Phillips\u00a0(Actors Branch), Vice President (chair, Equity and Inclusion Committee)<\/li>\n<li>Howard A. Rodman\u00a0(Writers Branch), Vice President\/Secretary (chair, Governance Committee)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBarber, Fox, Phillips and Rodman were re-elected as officers; Dinerstein was elected for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cWe are so deeply grateful to Lynette, Lesley, David, Jennifer, Lou and Howard for their commitment to the Academy and to our global film community,\u201d Academy CEO Bill Kramer said in a statement. \u201cAs we move toward our 100th anniversary, I am excited to continue our vital work with the board and these exceptional board officers to support our members, the industry and the Academy\u2019s mission and programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynette Howell Taylor was re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Hollywood\u2019s Oscars-dispensing organization, by its board of governors at a meeting on Wednesday morning, the organization just announced. Howell Taylor, an Oscar-nominated film producer whose credits include both acclaimed indies (among them 2006\u2019s Half Nelson, 2010\u2019s Blue Valentine and 2016\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2268217060-H-2026.jpg?w=1296&h=730&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}