Janet Yang has been re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy announced on Thursday.
Yang was elected to her third one-year term as president by the Academy’s Board of Governors, which also elected five vice presidents: Lesley Barber, DeVon Franklin, Donna Gigliotti, Lynette Howell Taylor and Howard A. Rodman.
A member of the Academy’s Producers Branch, Yang was nominated as a Governor-at-Large by then-Academy President John Bailey in 2019 and re-nominated by AMPAS President David Rubin in 2022. Her films include “The Joy Luck Club,” “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” “South Central” and “Over the Moon.”