On this Day, May 11, 1927: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Founded
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization, founded on May 11, 1927 in the US state California to advance the arts and sciences of motion pictures.
The Academy is known around the world almost exclusively for its yearly Academy Awards for films, which in turn are more popularly know as the "Oscars".
The current president of the Academy is Frank R. Pierson.
Original 36 Founders of the Academy are:
Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Jack Holt, Conrad Nagel, Milton Sills, Douglas Fairbanks, Harold Lloyd.
Directors: Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Lloyd, Henry King, Fred Niblo, John M. Stahl, Raoul Walsh
Writers: Joseph Farnham, Benjamin F. Glazer, Jeanie MacPherson, Bess Meredyth, Carey Wilson, Frank Woods
Technicians: J. Arthur Ball, Cedric Gibbons, Roy J. Pomeroy
Producers: Fred Beetson, Charles H. Christie, Sid Grauman, Milton E. Hoffman, Jesse L. Lasky, M. C. Levee, Louis B. Mayer, Joseph M. Schenck, Irving Thalberg, Harry Warner, Jack Warner, Mary Pickford, Harry Rapf
Lawyers: Edwin Loeb, George W. Cohen
Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Jack Holt, Conrad Nagel, Milton Sills, Douglas Fairbanks, Harold Lloyd.
Directors: Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Lloyd, Henry King, Fred Niblo, John M. Stahl, Raoul Walsh
Writers: Joseph Farnham, Benjamin F. Glazer, Jeanie MacPherson, Bess Meredyth, Carey Wilson, Frank Woods
Technicians: J. Arthur Ball, Cedric Gibbons, Roy J. Pomeroy
Producers: Fred Beetson, Charles H. Christie, Sid Grauman, Milton E. Hoffman, Jesse L. Lasky, M. C. Levee, Louis B. Mayer, Joseph M. Schenck, Irving Thalberg, Harry Warner, Jack Warner, Mary Pickford, Harry Rapf
Lawyers: Edwin Loeb, George W. Cohen
The Academy is known around the world for its annual Academy Awards, informally known as the “Oscars”. In addition, the Academy gives Student Academy Awards annually to filmmakers at the undergraduate and graduate level; awards up to five Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting annually; and operates the Margaret Herrick Library (at the Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study) in Beverly Hills, California and the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
The Academy’s corporate management and general policies are overseen by a Board of Governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft branches. The current president of the Academy is Hawk Kochalthough the first Oscars were not presented for several years after its founding,
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