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- The Academy Foundation earlier this month laid off all five staffers with its Oral History Projects team, effectively dissolving the department responsible for conducting and preserving interviews with notable members of the film industry.
- Two of those laid off were transitioned into different union roles within the Academy Foundation, the organization confirmed, Friday. The layoffs were part of a consolidation of the collections department at the Academy Foundation, which along with the Academy Museum is operated under the umbrella of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- Four of the five staffers who previously comprised the Oral History Projects department were in union roles.
