Pictured: Visual effects supervisor Ben Grossmann won an Oscar for Hugo, and was nominated a second time for Star Trek Into Darkness. Other blockbusters that he has been involved in include Alice In Wonderland, Shutter Island, Sin City, The Day After Tomorrow and Master And Commander.
Academy Members Gri-Gz
Updated 12/31/2019
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Stanton Griffis - (Executives Branch, Left the Academy in 1956) Director of Paramount Pictures, Chief of the Office of War Information Motion Picture Bureau, U.S. Ambassador (1/1/1956 Membership List in UCLA’s Herschel Burke Gilbert Collection 268-M Series 6 Box 249 - Name is crossed out, suggesting that he left the Academy later that year) (Does not appear on membership lists from later in his life) (Learn more here)
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Clay A. Griffith - (Production Design Branch, Previously Designers Branch) Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire, Dirty Dancing, Se7en, As Good As It Gets, Stuart Little, We Bought A Zoo, Sweet Home Alabama, Sleepless In Seattle (ClayGriffith.com) (Learn more here)
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Rachel Griffiths - (Actors Branch) (Oscar Nominee) Hilary And Jackie
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Bryan Grill - (Visual Effects Branch) (Oscar Nominee) Captain America The Winter Soldier, Hereafter, Iron Man 3, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Flags Of Our Fathers, Letters From Iwo Jima, Titanic, The Avengers, The Fifth Element, 2012, Armageddon, Being John Malkovich, The Golden Compass, Pirate Of The Caribbean At World’s End, Apollo 13, Star Trek Nemesis, G.I. Joe The Rise Of Cobra (June 2008 Academy Invitation List) (DigitalDomain 6/26/2008) (CGLabs.libsync.com 7/17/2016) (Learn more here)
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Alberto Grimaldi - (Producers Branch?) (Oscar Nominee) Gangs Of New York, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, Last Tango In Paris, Arabian Nights, Man Of La Mancha, Ginger And Fred, Man Of The East, The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, Fellini Satyricon, For A Few Dollars More (Learn more here and here)
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David Gropman - (Production Design Branch, Previously Designers Branch - Production Design) (Oscar Nominee) The Cider House Rules, Life Of Pi, Chocolat, August Osage County, Doubt, The Shipping News, Hairspray, Little Children, Marvin’s Room, Waiting To Exhale
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Larry A. Gross - (Writers Branch) We Don’t Live Here Anymore, 48 Hrs., Another 48 Hrs., True Crime, Streets Of Fire, The Beautiful Country, Rear Window, Geronimo An American Legend, Prozac Nation, Chinese Box, This World Then The Fireworks (June 26, 2014 Academy Invitation List) (Twitter Response to Invite) (Twitter Response 2) (Twitter 1/4/2015) (Learn more here and here)
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Matthew Gross - (Short Films And Feature Animation Branch) (Oscar Nominee) Bronx Cheers, Across The Universe (Deadline.com 5/9/2019) (Learn more here)
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George R. Groves - (Sound Branch, Originally Technicians Branch) (Oscar Winner) My Fair Lady, Sayonara, The Music Man, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, Sunrise At Campobello, The Nun’s Story, The Song Of The Flame, The Great Race (April 1, 1936 Technicians Branch Membership p. 4) (Academy Report Vol 6 No 3 Sept 1961 p. 2) (1/1/1964 Membership List in Academy’s Gregory Peck Papers File 260.f-2729 and Academy’s William Wyler Papers File 42.f-562) (1967-1968 Sound Branch Executive Cmte in Academy’s Gregory Peck Papers, File 260.f-2676) (1967-1968 Sound Effects Award Rules Cmte in Academy’s Gregory Peck Papers, File 260.f-2676) (1967-1968 Scientific or Technical Awards Cmte in Academy’s Gregory Peck Papers, File 260.f-2676) (1/1/1968 Membership List in Academy’s Gregory Peck Papers Files 260.f-2730 and Academy’s Alfred Hitchcock Papers File 111.f-1328) (1/1/1969 Membership List in Academy’s Gregory Peck Papers Files 260.f-2732 and Academy’s Alfred Hitchcock Papers File 111.f-1328) (Learn more here, here and here)
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Dave Grusin - (Originally Music Branch, Left the Academy in early 1970’s, Listed in Music Branch again circa 1980, May have left a second time, Invited to Rejoin the Music Branch again in 2015) (Oscar Winner) (Former Academy Governor) The Milagro Beanfield War, The Firm, Havana, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Tootsie, On Golden Pond, Heaven Can Wait, Skating To New York. This is an interesting case. Despite being an Oscar Winner, multiple time nominee AND a former Academy Governor, Grusin dropped out of the Academy in the early 1970s because he believed there were many non-artistic factors involved in the awards decision-making. He received a new invitation to rejoin the Academy in 2015, which Variety suggests he may have accepted. (1/1/1968 Membership List in Academy’s Gregory Peck Papers Files 260.f-2730 and Academy’s Alfred Hitchcock Papers File 111.f-1328) (1/1/1969 Membership List in in Academy’s Gregory Peck Papers Files 260.f-2732 and Academy’s Alfred Hitchcock Papers File 111.f-1328) (Undated Membership List in Paul Kohner Agency Records file 175.f-1740) (Academy Report 6 Issue 1, Spring 1994 p. 19) (ABQJournal 2/27/04) (June 26, 2015 Academy Invitation List) (Variety 2/2016) (Learn more here)
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Changwei Gu - (Cinematographers Branch) (Oscar Nominee) Farewell My Concubine, Autumn In New York, Hurlyburly, Ju Dou, Peacock (iis.aastocks.com 12/7/2016 p. 11)
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Howard “Peter” Guber - (Executives Branch) Chairman & CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Group and Mandalay Pictures, Former Studio Chief at Columbia, Former CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Rain Man, Batman, The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Gorillas In The Mist, The Witches Of Eastwick, Missing, Flashdance (Executives Branch Invitees 6/1969 to 12/1972 in Academy’s Gregory Peck Papers, File 260.f-2676) (Academy Report Vol 13 No 1, January 1971 p. 4) (1972-1973 Scholarship Cmte in Academy’s Gregory Peck Papers, File 260.f-2676) (Undated Membership List in Paul Kohner Agency Records file 175.f-1740) (Undated Membership List in Guggenheim Production Records, File .f-8046 - May have been reclassified as confidential since my viewing on 2/2/2017) (4/8/1999 Letter from Freida Lee Mock to Charles Guggenheim in Guggenheim Production Records, File .f-8042) (1999 Letter supporting keeping Documentary Shorts as an Oscar category in Academy’s Gregory Peck Papers, File 261.f-2745) (NYTimes.com 2/25/2005) (Gov.ca.gov 6/2/2017)
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Ciro Guerra - (Invited to both Directors Branch and Writers Branch) (Director of an Oscar Nominated Foreign Language Film) Embrace of the Serpent, The Wind Journeys (June 29, 2016 Academy Invitation List) (Learn more here and here)
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Charles E. Guggenheim - (Documentary Branch, Originally At Large Member) (Oscar Winner) (Documentary Awards Executive Committee, per Awards Program: 73rd p. 22) (Academy’s Guggenheim Production Records, File -f.5571 contains a letter from Charles Guggenheim supporting Bill Jersey’s membership) (4/8/1999 Letter from Freida Lee Mock to Charles Guggenheim in Guggenheim Production Records, File .f-8042) (6/19/1999 Letter from Freida Lee Mock that doesn’t say if they’re a member in Guggenheim Production Records, File .f-8042) (10/7/1999 List of Members who also make Documentaries in Guggenheim Production Records, File .f-8042) (List of West Coast Based Documentary Filmmakers circa 1999 that doesn’t say if they’re a member in Guggenheim Production Records, File .f-8042) (Academy Press Releases 1999 p. 221) (Mentioned in Undated Proposal to create Documentary Branch found in Academy’s Guggenheim Production Records, File .f-8045) (1/18/2000 Documentary Awards Executive Committee in Guggenheim Production Records, File .f-8043 - May have been reclassified as confidential since my viewing on 2/2/2017) (5/25/2000 Proposal for Documentary Branch in Guggenheim Production Records, File .f-8043) (11/17/2000 Documentary Awards Executive Committee in Guggenheim Production Records, File .f-8043 - May have been reclassified as confidential since my viewing on 2/2/2017) (4/9/2001 email to Guggenheim regarding potential documentary branch nominating committee members in Guggenheim Production Records, File .f-8044 - May have been reclassified as confidential since my viewing on 2/2/2017) (4/12/2001 Documentary Awards Executive Committee in Guggenheim Production Records, File .f-8044 - May have been reclassified as confidential since my viewing on 2/2/2017) (10/25//2001 Documentary Awards Executive Committee in Guggenheim Production Records, File .f-8044 - May have been reclassified as confidential since my viewing on 2/2/2017) (Doc Branch Exec Cmte 4/16/2002 found in Academy’s Guggenheim Production Records, File .f-8045) (Documentary Branch Roster 6/27/2002 found in Academy’s Guggenheim Production Records, File .f-8045 - May have been reclassified as confidential since my viewing on 2/2/2017) (Hollywoodreporter 10/4/2017 Podcast 13:55) (Learn more here and here)
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Michelle Guish - (Casting Directors Branch) The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Nanny McPhee, The English Patient, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Shakespeare In Love, The Debt, Corpse Bride, The Wings Of The Dove, Sense And Sensibility, Four Weddings And A Funeral (June 26, 2014 Academy Invitation List) (Learn more here)
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Glenn J. Gumpel - (Associate Member - Non-Voting, Originally At Large Member?) Former Executive Director of the DGA (Source: Oscars.org says that sitting executive directors of the DGA are eligible to be At Large Members, and are moved to Associate Status when they retire from that post) (Learn more here and here)
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Danai Gurira - (Actors Branch) Black Panther, Mother of George, The Visitor, Ghost Town, TV’s The Walking Dead, TV’s Treme (June 25, 2018 Academy Invitation List, and Original List, Archived, and App, Archive) (TheWrap 6/25/2018) (Deadline 6/25/2018) (IndieWire 6/25/2018) (ThePlayList.net 6/25/2018) (Academy YouTube 6/25/2018)
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Carla Gutierrez - (Documentary Branch) RBG, When Two Worlds Collide, La Corona, Kingdom Of Shadows, Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers, TV’s Reportero (LATimes 6/2/2016 from prior to invite) (June 25, 2018 Academy Invitation List, and Original List, Archived, and App, Archive) (TheWrap 6/25/2018) (Deadline 6/25/2018) (IndieWire 6/25/2018) (ThePlayList.net 6/25/2018) (Learn more here)
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Gary Gutierrez - (Visual Effects Branch) Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Running Man, The Right Stuff, Jack, The Serpent And The Rainbow (Stage32.com 1) (Stage32.com 2) (Linkedin)
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