Jacqueline Stewart

Director and President of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures/University of Chicago

Jacqueline Stewart is the Director and President of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. She is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, where she founded the South Side Home Movie Project. She is the author of Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity, and co-editor of L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema and William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission. Stewart is Chair of the National Film Preservation Board, host of “Silent Sunday Nights” on Turner Classic Movies, and a 2021 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.