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July 1, 2020

ACADEMY INVITES 819 TO MEMBERSHIP

ACADEMY SURPASSES GOAL TO DOUBLE NUMBER OF WOMEN AND UNDERREPRESENTED ETHNIC/RACIAL COMMUNITIES BY 2020.

Photo: America Ferrera arrives on the red carpet of The 92nd Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA, on Sunday, February 9, 2020. Image provided by & Copyright © Nick Argo / A.M.P.A.S. [File Photo]

Photo: Penélope Cruz arrives on the red carpet of The 92nd Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA, on Sunday, February 9, 2020. Image provided by & Copyright © Nick Argo / A.M.P.A.S. [File Photo]

LOS ANGELES, CA - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 819 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. The 2020 class is 45% women, 36% underrepresented ethnic/racial communities, and 49% international from 68 countries. There are 75 Oscar nominees, including 15 winners, and five recipients of Scientific and Technical Awards.

• Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2020.

“The Academy is delighted to welcome these distinguished fellow travelers in the motion picture arts and sciences. We have always embraced extraordinary talent that reflects the wide variety of our global film community, and never more so than now,” said Academy President David Rubin.

In 2016, the Academy set specific inclusion goals as part of its initiative to double the number of women and underrepresented ethnic/racial communities by 2020. Through dedicated and intentional work by the Board of Governors and members on the branch executive committees, the Academy has surpassed both these goals.

The Academy recently announced the next phase of its equity and inclusion initiative, Academy Aperture 2025, which will further the organization’s ongoing efforts to advance inclusion in the entertainment industry and increase representation within its membership and the greater film community. The initial phase of Academy Aperture 2025 outlined specific goals for the Oscars and Academy governance, association, and workplace culture.

“We take great pride in the strides we have made in exceeding our initial inclusion goals set back in 2016, but acknowledge the road ahead is a long one. We are committed to staying the course. We look forward to fostering an Academy that reflects the world around us in our membership, our programs, our new Museum, and our awards,” said Academy C.E.O. Dawn Hudson.

The 2020 invitees include:

• Actors

• Yalitza Aparicio - “Roma”
• Awkwafina - “The Farewell,” “Crazy Rich Asians”
• Zazie Beetz - “Joker,” “High Flying Bird”
• Alia Bhatt - “Gully Boy,” “Raazi”
• Bobby Cannavale - “The Irishman,” “The Station Agent”
• Choi Woo-Shik - “Parasite,” “The Divine Fury”
• Zendaya Coleman - “Spider-Man: Far from Home,” “The Greatest Showman”
• Tyne Daly - “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” “Spider-Man: Homecoming”
• Mackenzie Davis - “Terminator: Dark Fate,” “Tully”
• Ana de Armas - “Knives Out,” “Blade Runner, 2049.”
• Kaitlyn Dever - “Booksmart,” “Detroit”
• Cynthia Erivo - “Harriet,” “Widows.”
• Pierfrancesco Favino - “The Traitor,” “Rush”
• Beanie Feldstein - “Booksmart,” “Lady Bird”
• Zack Gottsagen - “The Peanut Butter Falcon”
• David Gyasi - “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil,” “Interstellar”
• Adèle Haenel - “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” “B.P.M. (Beats Per Minute)”
• Kelvin Harrison Jr. - “Waves,” “Luce”
• Brian Tyree Henry - “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “Widows”
• Huang Jue - “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” “The Lady in the Portrait”
• Jang Hye-Jin - “Parasite,” “Poetry”
• Jo Yeo-Jeong - “Parasite,” “The Target”
• Udo Kier - “The Painted Bird,” “Shadow of the Vampire”
• Lee Jung-Eun - “Parasite,” “Okja”
• Eva Longoria - “Overboard,” “Harsh Times”
• Natasha Lyonne - “Honey Boy,” “American Pie”
• Tzi Ma - “The Farewell,” “Arrival”
• George MacKay - “1917,” “Captain Fantastic”
• Tim McGraw - “Country Strong,” “The Blind Side”
• Thomasin McKenzie - “Jojo Rabbit,” “Leave No Trace”
• Ben Mendelsohn - “Ready Player One,” “Animal Kingdom”
• Rob Morgan - “Just Mercy,” “Mudbound”
• Niecy Nash - “Downsizing,” “Selma”
• Genevieve Nnaji - “Lionheart,” “Road to Yesterday”
• Park So-Dam - “Parasite,” “The Priests”
• Teyonah Parris - “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “Chi-Raq”
• Florence Pugh - “Little Women,” “Lady Macbeth”
• Hrithik Roshan - “Super 30,” “Jodhaa Akbar”
• James Saito - “Always Be My Maybe,” “Big Eyes”
• Alexander Siddig - “Cairo Time,” “Syriana”
• Lakeith Stanfield - “Knives Out,” “Sorry to Bother You”
• Yul Vazquez - “Gringo,” “Last Flag Flying”
• John David Washington - “BlacKkKlansman,” “Monsters and Men”
• Olivia Wilde - “Meadowland,” “Rush”
• Constance Wu - “Hustlers,” “Crazy Rich Asians”
• Wu Jing - “The Wandering Earth,” “Wolf Warrior”
• Zhao Tao - “Ash Is Purest White,” “Mountains May Depart”

• Directors

• Ali Abbasi - “Border,” “Shelley”
• Levan Akin - “And Then We Danced,” “The Circle”
• Francesca Archibugi - “A Question of the Heart,” “Tomorrow”
• Ari Aster - “Midsommar,” “Hereditary”
• Icíar Bolláin - “Even the Rain,” “Take My Eyes”
• Kat Candler - “Hellion,” “Jumping off Bridges”
• Felipe Cazals - “El Año de la Peste,” “Canoa: A Shameful Memory.”
• Cristina Comencini - “Latin Lover,” “Don’t Tell.”
• Sebastián Cordero - “Europa Report,” “Crónicas”
• Terence Davies - “The House of Mirth,” “The Long Day Closes”
• Sophie Deraspe - “Antigone,” “A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile”
• Mati Diop - “Atlantics,” “A Thousand Suns.”
• Robert Eggers - “The Lighthouse,” “The Witch”
• Luis Estrada - “The Perfect Dictatorship,” “Herod’s Law”
• Sydney Freeland - “Deidra & Laney Rob a Train,” “Drunktown’s Finest”
• Bette Gordon - “Handsome Harry,” “Variety”
• Maggie Greenwald - “Sophie and the Rising Sun,” “The Ballad of Little Jo”
• Megan Griffiths - “Sadie,” “The Night Stalker”
• Alma Har’el - “Honey Boy,” “Bombay Beach.”
• Sterlin Harjo - “Mekko,” “Barking Water”
• Kathleen Hepburn - “The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open,” “Never Steady, Never Still”
• Jan Komasa - “Corpus Christi,” “Warsaw ’44”
• Tamara Kotevska - “Honeyland.”
• Alejandro Landes - “Monos,” “Porfirio”
• John H. Lee - “Operation Chromite,” “71: Into the Fire”
• Ladj Ly - “Les Misérables.”
• Victoria Mahoney - “Yelling to the Sky”
• Samira Makhmalbaf - “At Five in the Afternoon,” “The Apple”
• Mai Masri - “3000 Nights,” “33 Days”
• Akin Omotoso - “Vaya,” “Tell Me Sweet Something”
• Matt Reeves - “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” “Cloverfield”
• Ljubo Stefanov - “Honeyland.”
• Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers - “The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open,” “the city before the city.”
• Maria Tognazzi - “Me, Myself & Her,” “A Five Star Life”
• Jorge Alí Triana - “Bolívar Soy Yo,” “A Time to Die”
• Matthew Vaughn - “Kick-Ass,” “Layer Cake”
• Lulu Wang - “The Farewell,” “Posthumous.”
• Wash Westmoreland - “Still Alice,” “Quinceanera”
• Andrés Wood - “Arana,” “Violeta Went to Heaven”

Source: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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