Bruce Davis, who has worked at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for 30 years and served as executive director for more than 20, will retire at the end of the current fiscal year, the Academy and Davis have confirmed.
Davis has been the highest-ranking salaried employee at AMPAS for all of the 1990s and 2000s. He announced his decision at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Academy’s board of governors and subsequently sent an email to Academy staff that read, in part, “Organizations and individuals both benefit from periodic shifts in perspective.”
Davis will not leave his position until June 30, 2011.