Enterprise Execs on the Oscars, Afterparty: From Bob Iger to Sergey Brin

• The Oscars on Sunday drew large names from Hollywood — and enterprise.
• Disney CEO Bob Iger was on the Oscars, and Sergey Brin, the Google cofounder, was on the Self-importance Truthful after get together.
• Large names from firms together with Netflix had been additionally on the ceremony in Los Angeles.

Hollywood’s greatest actors and administrators aren’t the one ones invited to the Oscars and Self-importance Truthful’s after get together.

Among the most vital folks in tech and enterprise had been additionally on crimson carpets at Sunday’s occasion the place Sean Baker’s “Anora” gained 5 Oscars, together with finest movie and finest actress for Mikey Madison.

Here is who confirmed up.

Bob Iger, Walt Disney CEO

Bob Iger — who retired as Walt Disney CEO after 15 years in 2020 solely to return in late November 2022 after his successor was dismissed — was on the Oscars crimson carpet along with his spouse, Willow Bay.

Pamela Abdy, Warner Bros. Movement Photos Group CEO

Pamela Abdy introduced her household to the Oscars and, like she did final 12 months, posed for images together with her daughter Mackensie Whittaker.

Abdy’s leads the manufacturing firms underneath the Warner Bros. umbrella, together with New Line Cinema, DC Studios, and Warner Animation. She works alongside her co-CEO, Michael De Luca.

Ted Sarandos, Netflix co-CEO

Ted Sarandos has labored at Netflix since 2000 and have become its co-CEO in 2020, alongside the corporate’s founder Reed Hastings. When Hastings stepped down in 2023, Sarandos was joined by Greg Peters.

On the Oscars crimson carpet, which he walked along with his spouse Nicole Avant, Sarandos addressed the controversy surrounding “Emilia Perez.”

“The whole lot we have poured into that is in regards to the movie, at all times in regards to the movie, we simply caught to that,” he advised Deadline.

Christopher Cheng, Chow Tai Fook Enterprises co-CEO

Christopher Cheng and his spouse Tina had been each on the Academy Awards. The co-CEO of Chow Tai Fook Enterprises was appointed its North Asia head final August. The conglomerate owns a various checklist of companies, and works in jewellery, property improvement, inns, and power.

Final November, controversy surrounded the household when Henry Cheng, Christopher’s father and the manager director of the corporate, instructed that he may search for an inheritor outdoors of the household.

Jim Gianopulos, former Paramount Photos CEO

Jim Gianopulos was the CEO of Paramount Photos from 2017 to 2021, when he was changed by Nickelodeon’s Brian Robbins.

The New York Instances reported this was as a result of ViacomCBS, Paramount’s father or mother firm, wished to deal with its streaming efforts, whereas Gianopulos wished to take care of theatrical releases.

He was on the crimson carpet along with his spouse, Ann.

Sergey Brin, Google cofounder

Sergey Brin, the cofounder of Google who left the corporate in 2019 however continues to be closely concerned, attended the Self-importance Truthful Oscars after get together, after sparking controversy by arguing the corporate’s AI staff work 60-hour weeks.