Update (Apr. 18, 12:45 p.m.): The Academy has announced that Daniel Fellman, a former Warner Bros. executive and producer of films like Unsane, will replace Bill Mechanic as governor of the Academy’s Executives Branch. He will complete the rest of Mechanic’s term, which ends on June 30, 2019.

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Producer and former Fox chief Bill Mechanic has resigned from his post on the Academy’s Board of Governors—but not with a quick goodbye and a step to the side. Instead, Mechanic took the incendiary route, writing a lengthy letter to Academy President John Bailey and detailing all the ways the Academy has allegedly failed its members and the film community at large. He railed against the bloated length and status of the Oscars, the way inclusive membership has been handled, the response to the #MeToo movement, and the long-awaited Academy Museum, which has for years been a source of anxiety for the organization.

“I feel I have failed the organization,” Mechanic wrote, according to Variety, which posted his letter in full. “I feel we have failed the organization.”

The Academy confirmed Mechanic’s exit with a statement on Tuesday: “The Academy thanks William Mechanic for his five years of service on the board of governors, where he represented the members of the executives branch.”

Mechanic’s fiery letter shows a board member at odds with the organization he was tasked to represent. He began by writing that he had “a great love and respect for the Academy,” but realized the environment had become “fractured.” One of the first issues he addressed in the letter was the way the Academy decided to handle inclusion among its membership ranks.

“We have settled on numeric answers to the problem of inclusion, barely recognizing that this is the industry’s problem far, far more than it is the Academy’s,” he wrote. “Instead we react to pressure. One governor even went as far as suggesting we don’t admit a single white male to the Academy, regardless of merit!”

He continued by taking aim at the Oscars telecast itself, which he claimed had yet to modernize. “We have kept to the same number of awards, which inherently means a long and boring show, and over the past decade we have nominated so many smaller independent films that the Oscars feel like they should be handed out in a tent,” he said.

Mechanic also alluded to recent reports about Bailey, who was accused of sexual harassment. (He denied the claims and was recently cleared of misconduct charges by the Academy.) “We decided to play moral police and most probably someone inside the Academy leaked confidential information in order to compromise the president,” Mechanic wrote, later criticizing how the Academy has decided to handle the ongoing #MeToo movement more broadly: “We have allowed the Academy to be blamed for things way beyond our control and then try to do things which are not in our purview (sexual harassment, discrimination in the industry).”

His thoughts on this particular issue aren’t exactly surprising. Mechanic said back in December that he was not a fan of the rigorous way the Academy had responded to the ongoing conversation about sexual misconduct in the film industry. Specifically, Mechanic was against the passage of a new code of conduct stipulating that the Academy was opposed to “any form of abuse, harassment, or discrimination on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disability, age, religion, or nationality.”

“This should be left to the companies people work for and to the police,” he said then. “Six months ago, all the moral police were silent. Was it wrong for people to be silent six months ago? Yes. Is it wrong to go overboard now? Yes. What you want is rationality to the process.”