Los Angeles: The Oscar-producing organization announced Tuesday that film producer Janet Yang has been elected as the new president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Yang, best known for hits like “The Joy Luck Club” and “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” is the first person of Asian descent to be voted to lead Hollywood’s most exclusive organization of filmmakers.
Each year, Academy members cast their votes for the Oscar winners, and the organization just opened a significant new Los Angeles film museum that had been in the works for decades.
In a statement, Academy CEO Bill Kramer highlighted Yang’s accomplishments in a number of areas, including “membership recruiting, governance, equity, diversity, and inclusion.”
