Last week’s Academy invitations brought us 276 new names, bringing our grand total of identified Academy members to 3,943 (about 57% of the full Academy membership).
The Board of Governors seems to be taking seriously the demographic problems of the Academy, and making an effort to increase the diversity by inviting more women, people of color and young(er) people than we’ve seen in the past.
As expected, several of last year’s Oscar nominees and winners are present, but there were still over 50 of this year’s nominees who weren’t invited. Adele and Quvenzhane Wallis are the most obvious misses, but the total should once again serve as a caution to those who simply assume that all nominees get invited.
As if to reinforce the point, we also had several previous Oscar nominees and winners who are just now being invited, including:
Marcel Ophuls - first nominated in 1972, WON in 1989
Prince - WON in 1985
Robert Stone - first nominated in 1988
Christine Choy - first nominated in 1989
Renee Tajima-Pena - first nominated in 1989
Lisa Westcott - first nominated in 1998, WON in 2013
Pieter Jan Brugge - first nominated in 2000
Fred Baron - first nominated in 2002
John C. Donkin - first nominated in 2004
Julie Delpy - first nominated in 2005
Simon Bright - first nominated in 2006
Siedah Garrett - first nominated in 2007
Todd Phillips - first nominated in 2007
Andrea Nix Fine - first nominated in 2008
Sean Fine - first nominated in 2008
Sarah Polley - first nominated in 2008
Trevor Wood - WON in 2008
Thomas Floutz - first nominated in 2009
Richard Pryke - WON in 2009
Rebecca Cammisa - first nominated in 2010
Finola Dwyer - first nominated in 2010
Elise Pearlstein - first nominated in 2010
Roger Ross Williams - WON in 2010
Stephan Trojansky - first nominated in 2011, Technical Achievement Award in 2008
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy - WON in 2012
Brandon Oldenburg - WON in 2012
Lisa Tomblin - first nominated in 2012
Stuart Wilson - first nominated in 2012
Check out all of the identified Academy members using the index below:
(About) (Origins) (Branch Statistics) (Progress Updates) ( A ) ( B ) ( C ) ( D ) ( E ) ( F ) ( G ) ( H ) ( I ) ( J ) ( K ) ( L ) ( M ) ( N ) ( O ) ( P ) ( Q ) ( R ) ( S ) ( T ) ( U ) ( V ) ( W ) ( X ) ( Y ) ( Z ) (Non-Members)
Know of an Academy member that we have missed? Think we have included someone who shouldn’t be here? The Academy Members Project is a work in progress, and welcomes your input! Additions, suggestions, corrections and verifications may be submitted in the comments section, or by emailing nevertooearlymoviepredictions@gmail.com.
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So glad to see invites going out to a younger and more ethnically representative group of folks.
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