At a time of transformation and tumult, the film academy prepares to elect a new president

Tonight, the academy’s 54-member board of governors will meet to choose a new president from among its ranks to succeed cinematographer John Bailey.

the academy president faced a claim of sexual harassment against him,

For Bailey, who was unaccustomed to being in the spotlight and somewhat aloof with the press, being in the line of fire was not always comfortable. But he accepted that it went with the territory in today’s Hollywood. “The arts by their very nature tend to be polarizing and controversial, and unfortunately on top of it we are living in a society now where there has been a tremendous kind of political polarization grafted onto it,” he told The Times in September.

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