Academy Chief Executive Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang’s letter continued: “We sincerely apologize to Mr. Ballal and all artists who felt unsupported by our previous statement and want ...

“Compare this, to the academy’s rightfully strong position when it’s the Iranian government oppressing filmmakers,” he wrote, posting an extract of the letter related to Panahi’s ...

The statement starts by saying the Academy’s letter to members, titled “Our Global Film Community,” “fell far short of the sentiments this moment calls for. Therefore we are issuing our ...

"We sincerely apologize to Mr. Ballal and all artists who felt unsupported by our previous statement", quotes "Variety" from the letter that was sent to the Academy's 11,000 members on Friday.

By Thursday morning, a letter began circulating among AMPAS members criticizing the Academy’s leadership for failing to publicly support Ballal. We wanted to briefly share with you that Hamdan ...

(The Academy leadership’s letter, circulated privately to members, only came after Yuval Abraham, an Israeli co-director of No Other Land, publicly blasted the institution for failing to speak ...