Davis served as the executive director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1989 through 2011, and penned an authoritative history of the organization, 'The Academy and the Award,' which was published in 2022.

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• Hollywood Reporter

  Davis served as the executive director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1989 through 2011, and penned an authoritative history of the organization, 'The Academy and the Award,' which was published in 2022.
• Deadline

  Bruce Davis, who served as chief executive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for more than 20 years, has died. He was 83. Davis died Saturday following a battle with leukemia, his wife, Joann, told The Hollywood Reporter. Davis joined the Academy in 1981, rising through ranks and becoming executive director in 1989, […]