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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is a professional honorary organization, founded on May 11, 1927 in California to advance the arts and sciences of motion pictures.The Academy is known around the world for its annual Academy Awards, informally known as the " Oscars." This is reflected in the name of the Academy's Website: http://www.oscars.org/
The current president of the Academy is Frank R. Pierson.
Original 36 Founders of the Academy:
Actors
Directors
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 WarnerThis article is about Jack Warner, the head of Warner Brothers . For the British actor of the same name, see Jack Warner (actor Jack Warner ( August 2, 1892 September 9, 1978), born Jack Leonard Eichelbaum in London, Ontario, Canada, was the President and
- Mary PickfordMary Pickford ( April 8, 1892 May 29, 1979) was a motion picture star, known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curl. She became one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. Mary Pickford Pickford was born Gladys Louise Smith in Toronto,
- Harry Rapf
Lawyers
- Edwin Loeb
- George W. Cohen
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2 Not to be confonded with
- American Academy of Arts and SciencesThe American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an organization dedicated to scholarship and the advancement of learning, particularly in areas of political science. It serves as a nationwide honor society for the United States, James Bowdoin, John Adams, an
American cinema
Academy Awards
