"I see our previous funding model slipping away as a necessary transition and the first step on the road to transforming the Award into a more deeply engaged social enterprise," he said.
In the quarter-century ahead, rapidly changing technology will no doubt transform the award again.
He and Dahan are reportedly locked in a furious battle over the future of the biopic, which is due to open the Cannes film festival on 14 May, with the La Vie en Rose film-maker refusing to make changes which Weinstein believes could transform the project into an awards-season contender.
The cost of the Olympic Stadium has risen to more than £580m, most of it met by taxpayers, with the news that Balfour Beatty has been awarded the £154m contract to transform the venue into one suitable for football and athletics.
A major award can transform the life of a writer lucky enough to win one.
The project to transform the town's Corn Exchange into an arts centre was awarded £500,000 for the next phase of its £1m development last month.
Can we transform the circumstances we are born into?
In the same year, Prada launched a menswear line, and in 1995 she gained international recognition after top Hollywood actress Uma Thurman wore one of her gowns to the Academy Award ceremony, quickly transforming the brand into an international status symbol.
The two men transformed The Angolite into a cutting-edge prison publication that won George Polk and Robert F. Kennedy awards for journalism and played a role in bringing reforms to Angola.
The architect Liz Diller, of Diller Scofidio & Renfro, the award-winning architecture firm whose many projects include re-envisioning New York's Lincoln Center and transforming the High Line into an urban oasis, talks with the Times culture reporter Robin Pogrebin.
He already had transformed the Volunteers into one of the nation's top teams last season, earning him the Naismith Award as national coach of the year.
