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AMPAS now boasts overall female membership to 2. Academy’s stated journey to doubling those areas by 2. Elle Fanning is the youngest invitee at 1. Betty White at 9. The list of actors also includes Wonder Woman. SNL is heavily represented with current and former cast members invited including Amy Poehler, Kate Mc. Kinnon, Leslie Jones, Maya Rudolph , and Molly Shannon .

There are quite a few veteran TV names not known for movie work in the class including Sharon Gless, Lou Ferrigno, Debbie Allen (who choreographed the Oscar show for several years though) and White. It seems some of the branches dug deep to come up with names for this year’s list  which also includes 2.

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Oscar winners and 9. Among directors, Get Out contender Jordan Peele, Moonlight’s Barry Jenkins, the Russo brothers, and  Tom Ford are on the list which is heavily dominated by international names.

The latter development is for me the most impressive in terms of this continuing membership drive. It appears the Academy is really trying to become the United Nations of cinema and if they keep  going at this rate they just may succeed.

And I believe that they vote based on their knowledge of particular skill sets , and that’s what they look for . It’s not just the Oscars,” she said.

As for the record number of invitees this year , and the ongoing membership drive, she said she is not necessarily counting on it being this big each year. What we are looking for is inclusion. Whether the numbers will continue to be at these levels we will know each year, but probably not. We are not looking to grow the organization. We are looking to have our organization more representative of men and women, here and around the world who are participating in the art form,”  she said adding there are a lot of factors involved and that includes a larger global footprint. The goal is instead to increase a diverse membership that represents us around the world.”Here’s the full list of invitees: Actors. Riz Ahmed – “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Nightcrawler”Debbie Allen – “Fame,” “Ragtime”Elena Anaya – “Wonder Woman,” “The Skin I Live In”Aishwarya Rai Bachchan – “Jodhaa Akbar,” “Devdas”Amitabh Bachchan – “The Great Gatsby,” “Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham.

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Sanders – “Selma,” “Whiplash”Rodrigo Santoro – “3. Love Actually”Rade . The Extra- Terrestrial”Ming- Na Wen – “Mulan,” “The Joy Luck Club”Betty White – “You Again,” “The Proposal”Rebel Wilson – “Pitch Perfect” series, “Bridesmaids”Mary Elizabeth Winstead – “1.

Cloverfield Lane,” “Swiss Army Man”B. D. Wong – “Mulan,” “Jurassic Park”Shailene Woodley – “The Spectacular Now,” “The Descendants”Donnie Yen – “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Ip Man”Casting Directors. Po. Ping Au. Yeung – “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny,” “Man of Tai Chi”Yael Aviv – “A Borrowed Identity,” “Miral”Constance Demontoy – “Elle,” “Monsieur Lazhar”Corinna Glaus – “Aloys,” “Night Train to Lisbon”Lindsay Graham – “The Magnificent Seven,” “Suicide Squad”Kimberly Hardin – “Hustle & Flow,” “Friday”Richard Hicks – “Hell or High Water,” “Gravity”Priscilla John – “Logan,” “Captain America: The First Avenger”Valorie Massalas – “The Wedding Ringer,” “Gods and Monsters”Reg Poerscout- Edgerton – “Crooked House,” “Kingsman: The Secret Service”Johanna Ray – “Snowpiercer,” “Inglourious Basterds”Jamie Sparer Roberts – “Moana,” “Frozen”Anna Maria Sambucco – “Youth,” “The Great Beauty”Harika Uygur – “Mustang,” “Three Monkeys”Francesco Vedovati – “I Am Love,” “The Last Kiss”Cinematographers. Jos. Sullivan, Jr. Edgar,” “Memoirs of a Geisha”Karen J. Ten. Eyck – “Alice through the Looking Glass,” “The Master”Shane Andrew Vieau – “Suicide Squad,” “Juno”David Wasco – “La La Land,” “Pulp Fiction”Elizabeth Wilcox – “The BFG,” “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”Directors.

Fatih Akin – “In the Fade,” “The Edge of Heaven”Adolfo Aristarain – “Common Places,” “A Place in the World”David Ayer – “Suicide Squad,” “Fury”Nabil Ayouch – “Horses of God,” “Ali Zaoua”Siddiq Barmak * – “Opium War,” “Osama”Aida Begi. Vincent”Kleber Mendon. Leo Chiang – “Out Run,” “Mr. Cao Goes to Washington”John Davey – “In Jackson Heights,” “National Gallery”Keiko Deguchi * – “God Knows Where I Am,” “Captivated The Trials of Pamela Smart”Abigail E. Disney – “The Armor of Light,” “Pray the Devil Back to Hell”Ezra Edelman – “O. J.: Made in America,” “Cutie and the Boxer”Bob Eisenhardt – “Meru,” “Shut Up & Sing”Diana El Jeiroudi – “The Mulberry House,” “Dolls – A Woman from Damascus”Jihan El- Tahri – “Nasser,” “Cuba: An African Odyssey”Geeta Gandbhir – “Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington,” “Music by Prudence”Lina Gopaul – “The Stuart Hall Project,” “The Nine Muses”Nadia Hallgren – “Motherland,” “Trapped”Nick Higgins – “The Crash Reel,” “First Position”John Hoffman – “Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman,” “La.

Lee’s Kin: The Legacy of Cotton”Tabitha Jackson – “2. Days on Earth,” “The Imposter”Kristi Jacobson – “Solitary,” “A Place at the Table”Janus Billeskov Jansen * – “The Act of Killing,” “Burma VJ”Judy Kibinge – “Wagalla – The Story of a Massacre,” “Headlines in History”Brian Knappenberger – “Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press,” “The Internet’s Own Boy”Dan Krauss – “Extremis,” “The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club”Penny Lane – “Nuts!,” “Our Nixon”Grace Lee – “American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs,” “The Grace Lee Project”Lisa Leeman – “Awake: The Life of Yogananda,” “One Lucky Elephant”Audrey Marrs – “Inside Job,” “No End in Sight”Hilla Medalia – “Dancing in Jaffa,” “Web Junkie”Jonas Mekas – “Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania,” “The Brig”Justine Nagan – “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,” “Life Itself”Joanna Natasegara – “The White Helmets,” “Virunga”Marilyn Ness – “Cameraperson,” “Trapped”Peter Nicks – “The Force,” “The Waiting Room”Orwa Nyrabia – “Return to Homs,” “Dolls – A Woman from Damascus”Alanis Obomsawin – “Hi- Ho Mistahey!,” “Kanehsatake: 2. Sci Fi Movies Dvd X Men Apocalypse (2016). Years of Resistance”Eva Orner – “Chasing Asylum,” “Taxi to the Dark Side”Helo! Bohrer. Jim Burke. Elizabeth Cantillon.

Jeff Clanagan. Stuart Ford. Nancy Gerstman. Andrea Giannetti. Kira Goldberg. Julie Goldstein. Peter Goldwyn. Carla Hacken *Mike Hopkins. Matt Jackson. Zygi Kamasa.

Scott Kennedy. Charles D. King. Eda Kowan. Niija Kuykendall. Winnie Lau. Miky Lee. Helen Lee- Kim. Peter Levinsohn. Alison Lima. Laurie May. Tendo Nagenda. Dan. Tram Nguyen. Rachel O’Connor.

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Elizabeth Raposo. Shari Redstone. Emily Russo. Erin Siminoff. Alison Thompson. Michael Wright. Film Editors. Spencer Averick – “1. Selma”Alexandre de Franceschi – “Lion,” “Bright Star”Keiko Deguchi * – “God Knows Where I Am,” “Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus”Tracy Granger – “Still Life,” “Boys Don’t Cry”Sabine Hoffman – “Maggie’s Plan,” “Elvis & Nixon”Edie Ichioka – “The Boxtrolls,” “Toy Story 2”Janus Billeskov Jansen * – “The Hunt,” “The Act of Killing”C. Banks,” “Beginners”Christopher Nelson – “Suicide Squad,” “Frank Miller’s Sin City”Elaine Offers – “The Kids Are All Right,” “Far from Heaven”Conor O’Sullivan – “The Dark Knight,” “Saving Private Ryan”Daniel Phillips – “Florence Foster Jenkins,” “The Queen”Luigi Rocchetti – “Ben- Hur,” “The Nativity Story”Morag Ross – “Hugo,” “The Aviator”Nikoletta Skarlatos – “Free State of Jones,” “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 & 2)”Vittorio Sodano – “Il Divo,” “Apocalypto”Shane Thomas – “The Dressmaker,” “Hacksaw Ridge”Kenneth Walker – “Loving,” “For Colored Girls”Kerry Warn – “The Great Gatsby,” “Australia”Carla White – “Hands of Stone,” “August: Osage County”Ann Pala Williams – “Live by Night,” “Click”Jeremy Woodhead – “Doctor Strange,” “Snowpiercer”Music.

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