Chicago’s Jacqueline Stewart director and president of Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Film scholar Jacqueline Stewart arrives at the BET Awards in Los Angeles in June. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Film scholar Jacqueline Stewart has been named the next director and president of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.

The organization’s board of trustees said Wednesday that Stewart, who previously served as the museum’s chief artistic and programming officer, would succeed Bill Kramer to guide the vision of the museum beginning July 18.