OSCAR HISTORY: Presidents of the Motion Picture Academy 
The various presidents of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have come from a broad range of talents in the film industry ... from actors to producers to film directors ... and here are the men and women who have served the Academy through their leadership as the organization's President ever since the beginning.
July 2022 - Present: Janet Yang
July 2019 - July 2022: David Rubin
July 2017 - July 2019: John Bailey
July 2013 - July 2017: Cheryl Boone Isaacs
July 2012 - July 2013: Hawk Koch
July 2009 - July 2012: Tom Sherak
July 2005 - July 2009: Sid Ganis
July 2001 - July 2005: Frank Pierson
July 1997 - July 2001: Robert Rehme
July 1993 - July 1997: Arthur Hiller
July 1992 - July 1993: Robert Rehme
July 1989 - July 1992: Karl Malden
July 1988 - July 1989: Richard Kahn
July 1985 - July 1988: Robert Wise
July 1983 - July 1985: Gene Allen
July 1979 - July 1983: Fay Kanin
May 1977 - July 1979: Howard W. Koch
May 1973 - May 1977: Walter Mirisch
May 1970 - May 1973: Daniel Taradash
May 1967 - May 1970: Gregory Peck
May 1963 - May 1967: Arthur Freed
July 1961 -- May 1963: Wendell Corey
September 1960 -- July 1961: Valentine Davies
June 1959 - September 1960: B.B. Kahane
May 1958 - June 1959: George Stevens
May 1955 - May 1958: George Seaton
May 1949 - May 1955: Charles Brackett
October 1945 - May 1949: Jean Hersholt
December 1941 - October 1945: Walter Wanger
October 1941 - December 1941: Bette Davis
December 1939 - October 1941: Walter Wanger
October 1935 - December 1939: Frank Capra
October 1934 - October 1935: Frank Lloyd
April 1933 - October 1934: J. Theodore Reed
October 1932 - April 1933: Conrad Nagel
October 1931 - October 1932: M.C. Levee
October 1929 - October 1931: William C. DeMille
May 1927 - October 1929: Douglas Fairbanks