The total number of women on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors is now 22, one more than last year.
That’s because producer Jennifer Todd not only beat her Oscar show co-producer Michael De Luca as a finalist to represent the producers branch, but in a run-off election to resolve a tie vote, beat horror maestro Jason Blum as well.Todd is president of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Pearl Street Films, where she produced “Live by Night” and executive produced last year’s “Jason Bourne.” Her credits also include “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” “Celeste and Jesse Forever,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “Across the Universe,” “Prime,” “Memento,” “Boiler Room” and the “Austin Powers” films.
Todd earned an Emmy nomination for her work on the HBO television movie, “If These Walls Could Talk 2.”Todd joins incumbents Albert Berger and Mark Johnson in representing the
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