As The Bruce Davis Academy History Arrives, Bill Kramer Is Writing A Next Chapter
13.06.2022 - 18:03
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Bruce Davis, say the notices, is finally ready to publish his monumental history of Hollywood’s film Academy. Twelve years in the making; part memoir, part chronicle; the book—The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—is due this fall from Brandeis University Press. A former executive director of the Academy, Davis has been wading through hitherto private files since his retirement in 2011. Order now. Galleys are available to the media on request.
But if only he had waited a little longer. There seems to be another chapter brewing, and it should be a good one.
Though I’ve never known Davis especially well—in my experience, he isn’t the type to waste time on idle gossip with reporters—our occasional dealings were always a delight. He is smart, thoughtful, direct and generally inclined to answer questions thoroughly when he answers at all. Once, my Los Angeles Times colleague Jim Bates and I dropped in to ask Davis what the Academy planned to do with a $100 million-plus nest egg we had spotted on its balance sheet. Well, said Bruce (in company with then-president Frank Pierson), the group was planning to spend the cash on a giant movie museum that would tax its resources for years but eventually become a credit to Los Angeles and the world of film.
We got a scoop, L.A. got a museum, and Davis, as usual, was worth the visit.
Which is why it would be great fun to read his informed account of a transition that is only beginning to take place around the next occupant of his former position, Bill Kramer.
On July 18, Kramer—currently head of the Academy Museum–will officially become the Academy’s Chief Executive Officer (as the top dog is now known), following Dawn
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