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Last week the list of candidates for the 2020 Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences\u2019 Board of Governors election<\/strong> was released.\u00a0The list of candidates is made up of qualified AMPAS members who actually submit themselves.<\/p>\n Deadline reported that\u00a0the winner in each branch are being chosen directly from these entries rather than whittling it down to four finalists in each, as has been done previously. The winners for the 17 open slots on the 54-member board will be chosen by preferential balloting, just like Best Picture race at the Oscars. Voting begins Monday and ballots are due back June 5.<\/strong><\/p>\n In the actors branch, incumbent governor Whoopi Goldberg is running for re-election against past governor Ed Begley Jr. vying to return to the board. Among the other actors running opposite in this category is Colman Domingo.<\/p>\n For the directors branch, among those vying for a spot against incumbent Kimberley Peirce include\u00a0Reginald Hudlin,\u00a0Ava Duvernay and Kasi Lemmons. Hudlin once\u00a0served as an Oscar-show producer years ago as well an as at-large board member. Terilyn A Shropshire is a nominee in the editors branch.\u00a0Interesting enough, Shropshire was the editor to four of Lemmons’ films and Part One of DuVernay’s When They See Us series. Sound editor Bobbi Banks is a nominee in her respective branch and Oscar winner John Ridley is a nominee in the writers branch.\u00a0 Incumbent\u00a0Wynn P Thomas of the production design category is running again.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the full list of nominees by branch (* = incumbent):<\/strong><\/p>\n Actors<\/strong><\/p>\n Michael Lee Aday Casting Directors<\/strong><\/p>\n Kerry Barden Cinematographers<\/strong><\/p>\n Kerry Barden Costume Designers<\/strong><\/p>\n Molly Maginnis Directors<\/strong><\/p>\n Niki Caro
\nEd Begley, Jr
\nRobert Carradine
\nNicolas Coster
\nColman Domingo<\/strong>
\nRichard Dreyfuss
\nSpencer Garrett
\nBruce Glover
\nWhoopi Goldberg*<\/strong>
\nJames Keach
\nStacy Keach
\nPeter Kwong
\nJodi Long
\nTim Matheson
\nJoe Pantoliano
\nLou Diamond Phillips
\nAndrea Riseborough
\nAndrew Stevens
\nRita Wilson<\/p>\n
\nRichard Hicks
\nMargery Simkin
\nDebra Zane<\/p>\n
\nRichard Hicks
\nMargery Simkin
\nDebra Zane
\nAndrzej Bartkowiak
\nRichard P Crudo
\nSvetlana Cvetko
\nSteven Fierberg
\nMichael Goi
\nJanusz Kaminski
\nNewton Thomas Sigel
\nEric Steelberg
\nKees Van Oostrum
\nAmelia Vincent
\nRoy Wagner
\nMandy Walker*<\/p>\n
\nJudianna Makovsky
\nIsis Mussenden*
\nRita Ryack<\/p>\n
\nScott Cooper
\nAva DuVernay<\/strong>
\nReginald Hudlin<\/strong>
\nKasi Lemmons<\/strong>
\nMichael Mann
\nPhilippe Mora
\nKimberly Peirce*
\nBrett Ratner
\nPeyton Reed
\nJason Reitman
\nFrances-Anne Solomon
\nLewis Teague<\/p>\n