viduals both benefit from periodic shifts in perspective.  He was succeeded by Dawn Hudson, who remained in the job until 2022 when Bill Kramer, the current CEO, was hired.

Davis, in the years after his retirement, maintained an office at the Pickford Center and was frequently at the Herrick Library, conducting research for a history of the organization that would be published by Brandeis University Press in 2022 as The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Among other things, it got further than any other effort in determining the origin of the nickname for the Academy Award,  Oscar. 

Ric Robertson, who succeeded Davis as the Academy's executive administrator in 1989 and served as his top deputy from then through Davis' retirement, tells THR,  Bruce was a remarkable man - a great leader, a great mentor and a great friend. 

In 2011, the day before he retired, Davis told the Associated Press,  I don't think I've been bored for a minute in 30 years here. I feel like such a rube sometimes. To this day, when I get out of the car on Oscar night and step up there onto that carpet, you get that rush of energy. The lights are popping - not that anybody's aiming at me - but still I think it's one of the great rushes, emotionally speaking, that a person can have. I have never gotten tired of that. 

In addition to his wife, survivors include their daughters, Brangien, Alexandra, Archer and Roxanne, all of whom were with him at the end.