Film academy re-elects president pushing diversity efforts

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2016 file photo, President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cheryl Boone Isaacs arrives at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The film academy announced Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016, that Boone Isaacs had been re-elected by its leadership to serve another one-year term as its president. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File) FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2016 file photo, President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cheryl Boone Isaacs arrives at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The film academy announced Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016, that Boone Isaacs had been re-elected by its leadership to serve another one-year term as its president. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

By Associated Press August 3, 2016 1 min read

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The leadership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has re-elected as its president a film marketing executive who has pushed for greater diversity within the organization.

The academy announced Tuesday night that Cheryl Boone Isaacs has been re-elected to lead the organization that bestows the Academy Awards to another one-year term.

Boone Isaacs has led efforts to increase diversity within the academy’s membership, especially in the wake of two years of all-white acting Oscars nominees that sparked the #OscarsSoWhite backlash against the ceremony.

The academy recently invited 683 new members to join; 46 percent of the prospective members were female and 41 percent from minority groups.

As president, Boone Isaacs helps announce the slate of Oscar nominees each year. She also heads a film marketing consulting business.