Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization founded in 1927 by Cecil B. DeMille, Mary Pickford, Richard Barthelmess, Jack L. Warner, Irving Thalberg, Harold Lloyd, Charles Christie, Louis B. Mayer, Raoul Walsh, Joseph M. Schenck, Frank Lloyd, Harry Warner, Fred Niblo, Jesse L. Lasky, Sid Grauman, John M. Stahl, Benjamin Glazer, Joseph W. Farnham, Conrad Nagel, Cedric Gibbons, Bess Meredyth, Milton Sills, Jeanie MacPherson, Carey Wilson, Frank E. Woods, Harry Rapf, M. C. Levee, Douglas Fairbanks, Joseph A. Ball, Roy Pomeroy, King, Henry and Jack Holt.