Movie Academy Invites 397 Members To 2022 Class; Ariana DeBose, Billie Eilish, Troy Kotsur On List
deadline.comThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday that it is inviting 397 artists and executives to join the Oscar organizer’s membership ranks.
The prospective 2022 class includes 71 Oscar nominees and 15 winners, with 44% of the invitees women, and 37% of the group belongs to underrepresented communities.See the full list below.Among this year’s Oscar winners on the list are Ariana DeBose and Troy Kotsur, and Kotsur’s CODA writer-director Siân Heder, who has been invited into both the Directors and Writers branches.
Among those invited into multiple branches, the new member must pick one. There are a total of 17 AMPAS branches, along with 25 who today received members-at-large invitations.Others on the list include this year’s Oscar Original Song winners Billie Eilish and brother Finneas O’Connell; actors Caitríona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Jesse Buckley, Michael Greyeyes, Olga Merediz, Jesse Plemons, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Anya Taylor-Joy; writers Zach Baylin, Jeremy O Harris, Adele Lim and Jon Spaihts; and The Queen of Basketball‘s Ben Proudfoot in the Documentary branch.Among the 53 invitees that hail from outside the U.S.
include Suriya, Drive My Car writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Flee writer-director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom writer-director Pawo Choyning Dorji and The Worst Person in the World star Renate Reinsve.Executives on the list include Disney’s Kareem Daniel and Dana Walden, and Paramount’s Brian Robbins.The Academy said that those who accept invitations will be the only additions to the membership in 2022.
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