Film Academy’s Longtime Theater Manager Richard Stermer Is Retiring (Exclusive)

Richard Stermer, one of many longest-serving staff of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences, is retiring, The Hollywood Reporter has discovered.

For LA-based members of the Academy, that’s very massive information. Why? As a result of Stermer, since 1994, has been a fixture on the 1,000-seat Samuel Goldwyn Theater throughout the Academy’s Beverly Hills headquarters — initially as deputy theater supervisor, then as theater supervisor and, since January, as senior theater supervisor — presiding over all the pieces from weekend screenings for members to early-morning Oscar nominations bulletins to premieres hosted by studios who rented the venue from the Academy.

The pleasant and unassuming Stermer, who can be a part-time actor, songwriter, composer and voice artist, has additionally been corralled, now and again, to make voiceover declarations at Academy occasions together with the aforementioned Oscar nominations gatherings, which are a magnet for a whole bunch of feisty press and publicists, in addition to Oscar Nominee Luncheons, Sci-Tech packages and extra.

Stermer’s predecessor because the Academy’s theater supervisor, beneath whom he initially served, was Robert Rigamonti, who died immediately in 2013, at which level Stermer was promoted.

Ric Robertson, who was the Academy’s government administrator from 1989 via 2011 and COO from 2011 via 2013, tells THR, “Richard’s wonderful. He’s a superb supervisor, well-organized, and at all times up to the mark. I’d go to screenings and watch him, previous to the movie, stroll up and down the aisles of the Goldwyn greeting individuals and asking them about their children or grandkids. I wish to name him the Mayor of the Goldwyn. He was the last word host, at all times pleasant and making individuals really feel welcome. It was actually exceptional.”

Stermer, in a characteristically self-effacing transfer, declined to remark for this piece.