Janet Yang
For a few years, the Oscars looked to be hanging on by a thread. Viewership was plummeting. The pandemic didn't help. And the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization behind Hollywood's biggest night, kept finding itself on the wrong side of the conversation, whether it be #...
Janet Yang has been re-elected to serve as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization said Tuesday. This will mark Yang's second term as president of the organization that puts on the Oscars and her fifth year as a governor-at-large.
Yang's background...
The slap sat front and center at Monday's Oscar nominees luncheon.
So much so that motion picture academy president Janet Yang neither had to describe it nor say the names Will Smith or Chris Rock for the ballroom full of award hopefuls to know what she was talking about when she aired...
Producer Janet Yang has been elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by its Board of Governors. She becomes the first Asian-American and fourth woman to lead the organization behind the Oscars.
“Janet is a tremendously dedicated and strategic leader who has an...