Janet Yang (born July 13, 1956) is an American film producer serving as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2021.
Yang has been credited on films and television including The Joy Luck Club, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Dark Matter, Indictment: The McMartin Trial, Zero Effect, Shanghai Calling, High Crimes, and the Academy Award-nominated animated feature Over the Moon.
Yang also served as executive producer of the groundbreaking film The Joy Luck Club, based on the best-selling novel by Amy Tan and directed by Wayne Wang.
Yang executive produced Indictment: The McMartin Trial for which she won both Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Made for Television Movie.
Yang produced the acclaimed film Dark Matter, directed by Chen Shi-Zheng and starring Chinese actor Liu Ye and Meryl Streep.
Yang was as an Executive Producer on the film, Documented,[1] written and directed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas.
[5] This made her the first Asian American President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the fourth woman to hold that position.