The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences lhelp off a presentant contingent of staff members in its archive and library on Wednesday, including Academy Film Archive honestor of 24 years Mike Pogorzelski. A source with comprehendledge of the layoffs says that cut offal impacted engageees had labored at the archive for more than a decade. The alters, proclaimd on Wednesday by Academy CEO Bill Kramer in an inside statement geted by Variety, come as part of an ongoing restructuring initiative at the organization. The relocate places the archive, the library and the assembleing unit’s operations under a newly createed Academy Collection and Preservation department.
“As part of this labor in originateing the new Academy Collection and Preservation department, some team members will be leaving the Academy this week,” Kramer wrote, inserting the remark that “less than 2% of our overall laborforce” had been impacted. “We comprehend that having to say excellentbye to colleagues is incredibly challenging. We are presentantly promiseted to providing help for those leaving and are finalizing a new increateing structure that we will split soon.”
The cutbacks come as the Academy proclaimd a slew of new acquisitions, enhugeing its assembleion of some 52 million items. The organization rerentd a press free Thursday, touting pieces such as Quentin Tarantino’s distinct handwritten script write of “Pulp Fiction,” the tearaway dress worn by Jamie Lee Curtis in James Cameron’s “True Lies” and more than 80 artlabors by Hayao Miyazaki and Nobura Yoshida.
The Academy did not instantly react to seeks for comment.
Since Bill Kramer was tapped to be the organization’s CEO in 2022, the Academy has seen a series of structural alters atraverse many departments, including the promotion of Amy Homma to supervise the mengageum and the expansion of oversight for Matt Severson, once the head of library operations, who is now superviseing assembleions, archiving and pick elements of the Academy Mengageum.
The Academy Film Archive is one of the most strong assembleions of movies in the world, and a guideer in the field of preservation. The Academy Library, comprehendn as the Margaret Herrick Library, is one of the world’s guideing film history resources for research.
