Business Execs at the Oscars, Afterparty: From Bob Iger to Sergey Brin

• The Oscars on Sunday drew massive names from Hollywood — and enterprise.
• Disney CEO Bob Iger was on the Oscars, and Sergey Brin, the Google cofounder, was on the Vainness Honest after celebration.
• Large names from corporations 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 Vainness Honest’s after celebration.

Among the most essential individuals in tech and enterprise had been additionally on pink carpets at Sunday’s occasion the place Sean Baker’s “Anora” received 5 Oscars, together with greatest movie and greatest actress for Mikey Madison.

This 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 pink carpet together with his spouse, Willow Bay.

Pamela Abdy, Warner Bros. Movement Footage Group CEO

Pamela Abdy introduced her household to the Oscars and, like she did final yr, posed for photographs along with her daughter Mackensie Whittaker.

Abdy’s leads the manufacturing corporations below 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 pink carpet, which he walked together with his spouse Nicole Avant, Sarandos addressed the controversy surrounding “Emilia Perez.”

“Every part we have poured into that is concerning the movie, all the time concerning the movie, we simply caught to that,” he instructed 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 growth, lodges, and power.

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

Jim Gianopulos, former Paramount Footage CEO

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

The New York Occasions reported this was as a result of ViacomCBS, Paramount’s father or mother firm, wished to concentrate on its streaming efforts, whereas Gianopulos wished to keep up theatrical releases.

He was on the pink carpet together 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 Vainness Honest Oscars after celebration, after sparking controversy by arguing the corporate’s AI workers work 60-hour weeks.