Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy is known around the world almost exclusively for its yearly Academy Awards for films, which in turn are more popularly know as the "Oscars".
The current president of the Academy is Frank R. Pierson.
Original 36 Founders of the Academy are:
Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Jack Holt, Conrad Nagel, Milton Sills, Douglas Fairbanks, Harold Lloyd.
Directors: Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Lloyd, Henry King, Fred Niblo, John M. Stahl, Raoul Walsh
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 Warner, Mary Pickford, Harry Rapf
Lawyers: Edwin Loeb, George W. Cohen
