Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterAfter years of aggressive growth to expand the racial, ethnic, and gender diversity of its membership roles, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Wednesday that it will dial back the number of new members it invites this year to roughly half that of previous years.In the wake of the back-to-back #OscarsSoWhite scandals in 2014 and 2015 — in which no actors of color were nominated for Academy Awards — the Academy pursued the goal if doubling the number of women and underrepresented ethnic and racial communities by 2020.
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