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- Bruce Davis, former Academy chief executive, died at 83 after battling leukemia.
- He led the Academy from 1989 to 2011 after joining in 1981.
- Davis founded the Academy Film Archive, opened at the Pickford Center in 2002.
- He championed the Academy Museum concept, realized when the museum opened in 2021.
- His 2022 book *The Academy and the Award* traced the Oscar nickname to assistant Eleanore Lilleberg.
