Overview

• Haifaa Al-Mansour, Effie T. Brown and Annie Chang have been added as governors-at-large on the Academy’s Board of Governors, representing the directors, producers and production and technology branches respectively.
• Al-Mansour is the Saudi Arabian filmmaker behind “Wadjda” and “The Perfect Candidate,” Brown is known for producing “Real Women Have Curves,” “Rocket Science” and “Dear White People,” and Chang serves as vice president of creative technologies at Universal and chairs the Academy’s Science and Technology council.
• Each governor-at-large was nominated by Academy President Janet Yang and confirmed by the Board to serve a three-year term beginning with the 2025–2026 fiscal year.
• With these additions, the 55-member Board now comprises 30 women (55%) and 17 governors (31%) from underrepresented communities.
• The governors-at-large positions were created in 2016 after the #OscarsSoWhite controversy to improve diversity and bring new perspectives to the Academy’s leadership.