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    Television Academy appoints 6 industry leaders to its 2025 Board of Governors

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    The six industry leaders initially appointed to the Television Academy’s Board of Governors Executive Committee by chair Cris Abrego in May 2024 will all return to serve the Academy in 2025.

    These appointees and industry innovators are Paul Buccieri, president and chairman, A+E Networks Group; Dany Garcia, founder, CEO and chairwoman, The Garcia Companies, and co-founder, Seven Bucks Productions; Pearlena Igbokwe, chairman of NBC Entertainment; John Landgraf, chairman, FX; Amy Reisenbach, president, CBS Entertainment; and Brandon Riegg, vice president, nonfiction series, Netflix. They will advise Abrego and the 2025 board on some of the most important issues and initiatives facing the television industry while helping to shape the organization’s direction.

    Additionally, the Television Academy’s Board of Governors has elected the following Peer Group Governors as their representatives on the Executive Committee for the 2025 term: Wendy Aylsworth (Science & Technology), Eddie Bonin (Special Visual Effects), David Hartle (Production Executives) and Christina Lee (Public Relations). They join chair Abrego (Reality Programming), vice chair Sharon Lieblein (Casting Directors), 2nd vice chair Rickey Minor (Music), treasurer Ann Leslie Uzdavinis (Commercials) and secretary Allison Binder (Professional Representatives).

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    Brazil rejoices over first Oscar win. “I’m Still Here” house to be transformed into a film museum

    Tuesday, March 4, 2025
    Fernanda Torres, right, embraces Walter Salles after he wins the award for "I'm Still Here" from Brazil, for best international feature film during the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

    When Spanish actress Penélope Cruz announced "I'm Still Here" as the winner of the international feature at the Academy Awards, millions of Brazilians roared at home and on the streets, where Carnival festivities have been ongoing since Saturday.

    On Monday, as parties continued nationwide, many revelers took time to take a quick look at newspapers, peek on their social media and watch TV to rejoice even more for the country's first-ever Oscar victory. The film shows a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades.

    "I promised I would watch ' I'm Still Here ' again tonight if it won, right after I come back from a Carnival street party, wearing my Wonder Woman costume," said Fernanda Rocha, 38, a pharmacist and tourist from Brasilia. "I live in a city where the military almost helped former President Jair Bolsonaro throw a coup just two years ago. This movie is a win against that too."

    Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes announced an expensive way to celebrate. His administration will buy the house where the film was shot in the upscale region of Urca, currently priced at 20 million Brazilian reais ($3.35 million) so it can be transformed into a cinema museum.

    "We will make it public and open it for visitation, the place that brought Brazil's first Oscar in almost 100 years of the awards," Paes said in his social media channels.

    Rio's O Globo and O Estado de S. Paulo, two of Brazil's most popular newspapers, had almost identical headlines: "At last, Brazil has an Oscar win." The South American country has had four other films nominated for Academy Awards: "Keeper of Promises" (1963), "O Quatrilho" (1996), "Four Days in September" (1998) and "Central Station" (1999).

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