Filmmakers Jason Reitman, Teddy Schwarzman and Tom Dolby, Toho chief Hiro Matsuoka and banker Cindy Huang have been elected to the board of trustees of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the museum announced on Monday.
“The [board] and I are thrilled to welcome Tom, Cindy, Hiro, Jason and Teddy to our Board of Trustees,” Academy Museum director and president Amy Homma said in a statement. “Their deep commitment to the mission of our museum will further help bring exciting exhibitions, screenings, programs, initiatives and collections and help us to grow our audiences from around the globe.”
The new board, which will take its seats on July 1, will also include Olivier de Givenchy, Dr. Eric Esrailian, Patricia Bellinger Balzer, Jim Gianopulos, Howard Berger, Arnaud Boetsch, Effie T. Brown (honorary trustee), Sidonie Seydoux Dumas, Sid Ganis (honorary trustee), Donna Gigliotti, Julia S. Gouw, Ray Halbritter, Tom Hanks, Travis Knight, Academy CEO Bill Kramer, Miky Lee, Eva Longoria, Ryan Murphy, Katherine L. Oliver, Alejandro Ramírez Magaña, Shira Ruderman, Ted Sarandos, Regina K. Scully, Kimberly Steward, outgoing Academy president Janet Yang and Kevin Yeaman, as well as Homma.
“The Academy Museum’s mission is made possible by the support of visionary leadership and a diversity of perspectives,” said de Givenchy, the board’s chair. “I’m thrilled to welcome our new trustees who embody these values and will help guide the museum’s continued growth and impact.”
Below are additional details about the new board members.
Tom Dolby is a filmmaker and the founder of Water’s End Productions. Dolby wrote and directed the feature films Last Weekend (IFC/Sundance Selects, 2014), starring Patricia Clarkson, and The Artist’s Wife (Strand Releasing, 2020), starring Lena Olin and Bruce Dern. Water’s End was the first outside investor, four years before the film was released, in the Academy Award-winning Call Me By Your Name (2017), on which Dolby served as an executive producer. Other producing credits include Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017), Little Woods (2018), Regarding Susan Sontag (2014), and Little Men (2016). Dolby has had four novels published, most recently with HarperCollins. As a stand-up comedian, Dolby has performed at venues including the Hollywood Improv and Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club in Las Vegas. Dolby recently directed Samantha Hale: Horror Nerd, a stand-up special shot live at the Hollywood Improv, to be released by Comedy Dynamics in fall 2025. Born in London and raised in San Francisco, Dolby earned his B.A. in Art History at Yale University, focusing on 20th-century photography. He lives in Los Angeles with his partner, Spencer Alcorn.
Cindy Huang is a highly accomplished banker and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience at Citibank N.A. and HSBC. She co-founded the multibillion-dollar VC Edgewater Investment Group (EWI), focusing on leading Tech VC like SpaceX, Palantir, and Veea-AI. As CEO of EC Lending Group, she oversees a billion-dollar private credit capacity and co-founded the FinTech venture Swift Plus, specializing in open banking and cross-border payments. Currently, she leads Apex Financial Holdings, which aims to expand U.S. banking into the digital banking era. In February 2025, Cindy joined the Board of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. Actively involved in philanthropy, she promotes AAPI empowerment and serves as CEO of the California State Friendship Committee. Cindy holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Science from National Taiwan University, focusing on global climate research and GPS systems, and resides in Los Angeles.
Hiro Matsuoka is President and CEO of Toho Co., Ltd., Japan’s leading entertainment company since 1932. Since its founding, Toho has produced some of the world’s most iconic cinema, including the Godzilla series and Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. Matsuoka began his media career at International Creative Management in Los Angeles as an agent trainee and has since spent his career bridging Hollywood and the Japanese film and television industry. At Toho, he has led the exponential growth of the company’s international business, including Godzilla Minus One (2023), which became the third-highest-grossing non-English language film in the U.S. and won the 2024 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, and (in partnership with Legendary Pictures) Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019), each grossing more than $350 million U.S. at the global box office. Toho operates production and distribution of its anime entertainment through TOHO Animation (including the renowned My Hero Academia and Jujutsu Kaisen). Matsuoka received his Bachelor’s degree from Keio University in Tokyo and MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a member of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, Inc., and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He also serves on the boards of several companies, including The Pokémon Company.
Jason Reitman is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker who most recently directed Saturday Night (2024). Reitman made his feature film debut with the 2006 Sundance hit Thank You for Smoking (2005). He earned Academy Award® nominations for directing Juno (2007) and Up in the Air (2009). Reitman has collaborated with screenwriter Diablo Cody on four critically acclaimed films, including Young Adult (2011), Tully (2018), and Jennifer’s Body (2009). As a producer, Reitman oversaw four seasons of the Hulu comedy series Casual. He also produced the Academy Award-winning film Whiplash (2014) and Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition (2015). In 2020, during the height of the COVID pandemic, Reitman created and directed the Home Movie: The Princess Bride, raising over a million dollars for World Central Kitchen. In 2021, Reitman directed and co-wrote Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and in 2023, produced and co-wrote its sequel, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. In early 2024, Reitman assembled 35 prominent film directors in order to save the Westwood Village Theater.
Teddy Schwarzman is the CEO of Black Bear, an award-winning, multi-faceted media company. Under Schwarzman’s leadership, Black Bear produces, finances, and distributes film and television around the world, including in the UK and Canada, where Black Bear releases films directly. An Academy Award nominee and driving creative force behind more than forty feature films, Schwarzman’s credits include such acclaimed films as The Imitation Game (2014), nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Mudbound (2017), nominated for four Academy Awards, Sing Sing (2023), nominated this past year for three Academy Awards, and Nyad, nominated the year prior for two Academy Awards. More recently, among other projects, Schwarzman produced Clint’s Bentley’s Train Dreams (2025), which Netflix will release this fall, David Michôd’s upcoming Christy Martin biopic starring Sydney Sweeney, and The Rivals of Amziah King (2025), starring Matthew McConaughey. Schwarzman also executive produced David Ayer’s action hit A Working Man (2025), starring Jason Statham, last year’s horror sensation, Longlegs (2024), and one of this year’s highest grossing documentaries, October 8 (2025), examining the shocking rise of antisemitism in America in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel. A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Producers Guild of America, Schwarzman sits on the Board of Directors of the Gotham Film Institute, the Cedar-Sinai Board of Governors, and is an honorary member of the Duke University School of Law Board of Visitors.