(Hollywood Reporter) Oscar winner Gerald Molen wrote in a letter Thursday: "I am grateful to the leadership of the Academy as well as the voters for returning integrity and balance to a revered and respected national iconic organization."
Michael Moore has lost his position as a governor on the Academy's documentary board, and Oscar-winning producer Gerald Molen, one of the film industry's rare outspoken conservatives, is belatedly taking a victory lap.
In a letter to Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the recently elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Molen wrote: "On behalf of my fellow filmmakers and the vast American Heartland which, on occasion, has felt disenfranchised by the Academy, I want to personally thank you and the Academy for removing Mr. Moore and restoring a fair and impartial voting process to the documentary category of the Oscars."
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