Richard Barthelmess
Actors Branch
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Poll: Founding Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
In 1926, Louis B. Mayer wanted to short-circuit the growing labor union movement in Hollywood. He decided to create an umbrella organization whose membership would be open to all employees of the film industry, but which would actually be controlled by producers to serve their needs overall. One of the earliest decisions was to divide the Academy into five branches: Actors, Directors, Producers, Technicians, and Writers. Dozens of Hollywood dignitaries were invited to attend an organizing banquet at the Ambassador Hotel on January 11, 1927. Anybody who attended would be listed as founding members of the Academy. Thirty-six people attended and, in what would become an Academy tradition, were permanently locked into the one branch they chose for themselves that night, even though some of them were qualified to join multiple branches. Four founding members have no IMDb pages; Fred Beetson and Paramount Pictures executive Milton E. Hoffman, who both joined the Producers Branch; and lawyers George W. Cohen and Edwin Loeb.
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Douglas Fairbanks
Actors BranchFirst President of the Academy (1927-29)
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Jack Holt
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Harold Lloyd
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Conrad Nagel
Actors BranchFourth President of the Academy (1932-33)
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Mary Pickford
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Milton Sills
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Cecil B. DeMille
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Henry King
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Frank Lloyd
Directors BranchSixth President of the Academy (1934-35)
Last of the original 36 to serve as President
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Fred Niblo
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John M. Stahl
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Raoul Walsh
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Charles Christie
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Sid Grauman
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Jesse L. Lasky
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M.C. Levee
Producers BranchThird President of the Academy (1931-32)
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Louis B. Mayer
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Harry Rapf
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Joseph M. Schenck
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Irving Thalberg
Producers BranchFollowing his death in 1936, the Academy established the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to honor producers with distinguished careers. Unlike other Academy Awards, the award is not a "Class I" Oscar statuette or the discontinued "Class II" plaque, but is instead a bust of Thalberg.
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Harry M. Warner
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Jack L. Warner
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Arthur Ball
Technicians Branch (cinematographer and Technicolor company supervisor)Full name: Joseph Arthur Ball. Has a second IMDb profile under "J.A. Ball".
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Cedric Gibbons
Technicians Branch (art director)Designer of the Oscar statuette
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Roy Pomeroy
Technicians Branch (visual effects expert)Listed as Roy J. Pomeroy
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Joseph Farnham
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Benjamin Glazer
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Jeanie Macpherson
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Bess Meredyth
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Carey Wilson
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Frank E. Woods
Writers Branch
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