Motion picture academy renews Chief Executive Dawn Hudson’s contract

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences renewed the contract of its sometimes controversial chief executive, Dawn Hudson, at a meeting of its board of governors Tuesday night.

Hudson, who joined the academy in 2011 under a three-year deal set to expire in June, was offered a three-year contract to continue running the day-to-day operations of the organization, which had revenues last year of $180.1 million.

Hudson has taken a prominent role in the development of the academy’s planned museum, which is scheduled to open on the site of the former May Company building on Wilshire Boulevard in 2017, and has spearheaded efforts to diversify the organization’s staff and membership.

Details of the contract, and whether Hudson’s responsibilities would change, were not known.