The Academy Museum appoints Jacqueline Stewart as Director and President who succeeds new AMPAS CEO Bill Kramer

In a surprise move, the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Jacqueline Stewart will become the institute’s director and president. She succeeds Bill Kramer, who was sworn in last week as the new CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, succeeding CEO Dawn Hudson.

Stewart was seen as Kramer’s most likely replacement and was named to a key position there in 2020 as lead artist and programmer. He will begin primary work on July 18th, overseeing all aspects of his operations. Perhaps best known as the host of Turner Classic Movies, directing “Silent Sunday Nights,” Stewart is also a noted film scholar, curator and public educator.

Ted Sarandos, President of the Academy Museum Board of Trustees and Co-CEO of Netflix, said, “The Board warmly and unanimously agrees that Jacqueline Stewart is the ideal choice to lead the Academy Museum into the future. A partner strong and inspiring to Bill Kramer throughout the run-up to our opening, he provided indispensable direction for a curatorial program that was widely admired. His role as director and president is a testament to the Academy Museum’s intellectual strength and of its institutional strength.

Kramer, who told me recently that he felt the current staff were more than capable of accompanying the museum to its final stages, said: “It was a great privilege to work with Jacqueline when we opened the museum. Academy Museum. I am thrilled to continue working together in our two new roles. I know the museum will thrive on its rare combination of experience, creativity and proven leadership. As movie fans everywhere, I am so grateful that he is driving the Academy Museum’s future. “

Stewart, who led the strategy and planning of the museum’s curatorial, educational and public programming initiatives, is ready to take on the challenge.

“With the opening of the Academy Museum, our ambition was to provide Los Angeles and the world with an unprecedented institution to understand and appreciate the history and culture of cinema, in all its artistic splendor and influence. and reflect society, “he said. “I am honored to have been selected for this new position and look forward to working with our Board of Trustees, our Director and General Counsel Brendan Connell Jr., our incredibly talented staff and Bill Kramer and the Academy while go on”. To carry out our mission “.

Under Stewart’s leadership, the Academy Museum has launched numerous exhibits, exhibits, symposia, publications, workshops, youth programs and the new Academy Museum Podcast. Awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2021, he was a Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2019 and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018. he was appointed Professor of Film and . Media studied at the University of Chicago and previously served on the faculty of Northwestern University.

Stewart’s work to broaden public understanding of cinema and bring film history to life has included his award-winning book. Cinema migration: cinema and black urban modernityStudies African American and Silent Film and co-edited it LA Rebellion: The making of a new film noir Y William Graves: Cinema as a mission. He also co-curated the Pioneers of African American Cinema video collection for Cinema Lorber. A native of Chicago’s South Side, Stewart founded the South Side Home Movie Project in 2005 to preserve, digitize and display amateur images that portray everyday life from the perspective of South Side residents.

A passionate film archivist and advocate for film conservation, she is president of the National Film Preservation Council, where she led the preparation of diversity, equity and inclusion in the profession reports for the National Film Registry and film archives. Stewart has also worked at the Chicago Film Archive, the Society for Film and Media Studies, and the Association of Moving Image Archivists.

Stewart’s research was supported by institutions including the Schomburg Center for the Study of Black Culture at the New York Public Library, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, the Kluge Center at the Library of the Congress and the Frank Institute for Humanity. at the University of Chicago and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Stewart holds a BA in English from Stanford University and a PhD. in English from the University of Chicago. You have studied moving image archives at UCLA and at the Cineteca di Bologna in Italy.

The Academy Museum’s next major exhibition, “Regeneration: Film Noir 1898-1971”, opens next month.