The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is a professional honorary organization, founded on May 11, 1927 in California to advance the arts and sciences of motion pictures.

The Academy is known around the world for its annual Academy Awards, informally known as the "Oscars."

The current president of the Academy is Frank R. Pierson.

Original 36 founders of the Academy:

Actors

• Richard Barthelmess
• Jack Holt
• Conrad Nagel
• Milton Sills
• Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
• 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

External links

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
• The Official Academy Awards Database of Winners and Nominees

Not to be confused with

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences