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Wednesday
Jun282017

Welcome to the Academy (2017 Invitee List)

The Academy continues its diversity push this year with a record 774 new invitations for membership including people from all over the world. The youngest this year is Elle Fanning and the oldest is Betty White. The list is 39% female this year and 30% people of color.

Chinese superstar screen partners Maggie Cheung & Tony Leung Chiu Wai are finally invited!We must also note that AMPAS's diversity push is also doubling as a major expansion. They're not just inviting differently (i.e. less white men and more women and people of color) but MORE in general. If all of the invitees accepted the invites from this year and last that's 1400ish new members in two years for an institution that previously kept its ranks steady around the 6,000 member mark. 

Everyone's gagging over Gal Gadot being invited but that's obvious. She's in a phenomenon sized hit at the moment and timing is everything -- see also Riz Ahmed whose career is also white hot at this very second and who is also invited... 

The most surprising names on the list to me are actually Debbie Allen and Maggie Cheung in the actors branch. I figured Debbie was already a member since she's worked with the Academy so often on awards ceremonies (as choreographer) in decades past. But it's surprising because both are all but retired from acting in the movies... and for several years at that. The Academy had previously suggested that they were trying to thin out the ranks of older, non-working members. I don't know if Debbie Allen is still doing her recurring role on Grey's Anatomy but Maggie Cheung hasn't worked in quite some time despite filmmaker attempts to lure her back to the big screen. [The complete list of invitees by category is after the jump...]

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…”
Monica Bellucci – “Spectre,” “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”
Gil Birmingham – “Hell or High Water,” “Twilight” series
Nazanin Boniadi – “Ben-Hur,” “Iron Man”
Daniel Brühl – “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” “Inglourious Basterds”

Both "In the Mood" stars were invited this year. The Academy is only 17 years late here but finally!

Maggie Cheung – “Hero,” “In the Mood for Love”
John Cho – “Star Trek” series, “Harold & Kumar” series
Priyanka Chopra – “Baywatch,” “Barfi!”
Matt Craven – “X-Men: First Class,” “A Few Good Men”
Terry Crews – “The Expendables” series, “Draft Day”
Warwick Davis – “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Harry Potter” series
Colman Domingo – “The Birth of a Nation,” “Selma”
Adam Driver – “Silence,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
Joel Edgerton – “It Comes at Night,” “Loving”
Chris Evans – “Captain America” series, “Snowpiercer”
Luke Evans – “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Girl on the Train”
Fan Bingbing – “I Am Not Madame Bovary,” “Cell Phone”
Elle Fanning – “The Beguiled,” “20th Century Women”
Golshifteh Farahani – “Paterson,” “AboutElly”
Anna Faris – “Scary Movie” series, “Brokeback Mountain”
Tom Felton – “A United Kingdom,” “Harry Potter” series
Rebecca Ferguson – “The Girl on the Train,” “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation”
Lou Ferrigno – “The Incredible Hulk,” “Hercules”


Gal Gadot – “Wonder Woman,” “Fast & Furious” series
Charlotte Gainsbourg – “Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer,” “Melancholia”
Jeff Garlin – “Safety Not Guaranteed,” “WALL-E”
Spencer Garrett – “Public Enemies,” “Thank You for Smoking”
Domhnall Gleeson – “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “Ex Machina”
Sharon Gless – “The Star Chamber,” “Airport 1975”
Donald Glover – “The Martian,” “Magic Mike XXL”
Judy Greer – “Jurassic World,” “13 Going on 30”
Rupert Grint – “Moonwalkers,” “Harry Potter” series
Noel Gugliemi – “Lowriders,” “The Fast and the Furious”
Jon Hamm – “Baby Driver,” “The Town”
Armie Hammer – “The Birth of a Nation,” “The Social Network”
Naomie Harris – “Moonlight,” “Skyfall”
Leila Hatami – “A Separation,” “Leila”
Anne Heche – “Rampart,” “DonnieBrasco”
Lucas Hedges – “Manchester by the Sea,” “Moonrise Kingdom”
Chris Hemsworth – “Thor” series, “Rush”
Ciarán Hinds – “Silence,” “Munich”
Aldis Hodge – “Hidden Figures,” “Straight Outta Compton”
Bryce Dallas Howard – “Jurassic World,” “The Help”
Bonnie Hunt – “The Green Mile,” “Jerry Maguire”
Jiang Wen – “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Let the Bullets Fly”
Dwayne Johnson – “Moana,” “Central Intelligence”
Leslie Jones – “Ghostbusters,” “Masterminds”

Both Keegan-Michael Key and his former comedy partner Jordan Peele were invited this year

Keegan-Michael Key – “Don’t Think Twice,” “Keanu”
Aamir Khan – “3 Idiots,” “Lagaan”
Irrfan Khan – “Life of Pi,” “Slumdog Millionaire”
Salman Khan – “Sultan,” “Bajrangi Bhaijaan”
Rinko Kikuchi – “Pacific Rim,” “Babel”
Zoë Kravitz – “Divergent” series, “Mad Max: Fury Road”
Sanaa Lathan – “Out of Time,” “Love and Basketball”
Carina Lau – “Infernal Affairs 2,” “Days of Being Wild”
Tony Leung – “The Grandmaster,” “Lust, Caution”
Rami Malek – “Short Term 12,” “The Master”
Leslie Mann – “Funny People,” “Knocked Up”
Kate McKinnon – “Ghostbusters,” “Office Christmas Party”
Sienna Miller – “The Lost City of Z,” “American Sniper”
Janelle Monáe – “Hidden Figures,” “Moonlight”
Michelle Monaghan – “Patriots Day,” “Gone Baby Gone”
Viggo Mortensen – “Captain Fantastic,” “The Lord of the Rings” series

Ruth Negga – “Loving,” “Warcraft”
Franco Nero – “The Lost City of Z,” “Django”
Elizabeth Olsen – “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Martha Marcy May Marlene”
Deepika Padukone – “xXx: Return of Xander Cage,” “Piku”
Sarah Paulson – “Blue Jay,” “12 Years a Slave”
Robert Picardo – “Hail, Caesar!,” “TheMeddler”
Amy Poehler – “Inside Out,”“Sisters”
Chris Pratt – “Guardians of the Galaxy” series, “Jurassic World”
Zachary Quinto – “Star Trek” series, “Snowden”
Édgar Ramírez – “The Girl on the Train,” “Joy”
Phylicia Rashad – “Creed,” “For Colored Girls”
Margot Robbie – “Suicide Squad,” “The Wolf of Wall Street”
Maya Rudolph – “Maggie’s Plan,” “Bridesmaids”
Hiroyuki Sanada – “Life,” “The Twilight Samurai”
Henry G. Sanders – “Selma,” “Whiplash”
Rodrigo Santoro – “300,” “Love Actually”
Rade Šerbedžija – “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1,” “The Quiet American”
Nestor Serrano – “The Insider,” “Lethal Weapon 2”
Amanda Seyfried – “Les Misérables,” “Mean Girls”
Molly Shannon – “Other People,” “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”
Anna Deavere Smith – “Rachel Getting Married,” “Philadelphia”
Hailee Steinfeld – “The Edge of Seventeen,” “True Grit”
Kristen Stewart – “Café Society,” “Twilight” series
Omar Sy – “Inferno,” “The Intouchables”
Wanda Sykes – “Snatched,” “Evan Almighty”
Channing Tatum – “Hail, Caesar!,” “Foxcatcher”

Aaron Taylor-Johnson – “Nocturnal Animals,” “Kick-Ass”
Lauren Tom – “The Joy Luck Club,” “Cadillac Man”
Jeanne Tripplehorn – “The Firm,” “Basic Instinct”
Paz Vega – “Kill the Messenger,” “Sex and Lucía”
Dee Wallace – “Grand Piano,” “E.T. 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 – “10 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

PoPing AuYeung – “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

Pedro's ace DP José Luis Alcaine

José Luis Alcaine – “The Skin I Live In,” “Volver”
Affonso Beato – “Love in the Time of Cholera,” “The Queen”
Walter Carvalho – “Carandiru,” “Central Station”
Chung-Hoon Chung – “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” “Stoker”
Kiko de la Rica – “Blancanieves,” “Sex and Lucía”
Crystel Fournier – “A Place on Earth,” “Tomboy”
Robert Hardy – “Ex Machina,” “Boy A”
Camilla Hjelm Knudsen – “Land of Mine,” “Little Soldier”
Dan Laustsen – “John Wick: Chapter 2,” “Crimson Peak”
James Laxton – “Moonlight,” “Medicine for Melancholy”
Ernesto Pardo – “Tempestad,” “The Naked Room (El Cuarto Desnudo)”
Linus Sandgren – “La La Land,” “Joy”
André Turpin – “Mommy,” “It’s Not Me, I Swear!”
Zhao Xiaoding – “The Flowers of War,” “House of Flying Daggers”

Costume Designers

Renée April – “Arrival,” “The Red Violin”
Erin Benach – “Loving,” “Blue Valentine”
Suzy Benzinger – “Café Society,” “Blue Jasmine”

Arjun Bhasin – “Three Generations,” “Monsoon Wedding”
Diana Cilliers – “The Last Face,” “District 9”
Michele Clapton – “Queen of the Desert,” “Separate Lies”
Bina Daigeler – “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” “Only Lovers Left Alive”
Julian Day – “Inferno,” “Brighton Rock”
Jenny Eagan – “Beasts of No Nation,” “Now You See Me”
Steven Noble – “A Monster Calls,” “Under the Skin”
Karen Patch – “Seven Psychopaths,” “The Royal Tenenbaums”
Monique Prudhomme – “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” “Best in Show”
Trish Summerville – “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Melissa Toth – “Manchester by the Sea,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”

Production Designers

Javier Ameijeiras – “Black Nativity,” “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
Toni Barton – “The Big Wedding,” “Sherlock Holmes”
Danielle Berman – “The Fate of the Furious,” “Memento”
Kelly Berry – “Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials,” “Spy”
Stefania Cella – “Black Mass,” “The Great Beauty”
Ellen Christiansen – “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Across the Universe”
Jim Clay – “Woman in Gold,” “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin”
Beverley Dunn – “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” “The Great Gatsby”
Brad Einhorn – “Hail, Caesar!,” “A Time to Kill”
Antxón Gómez – “Julieta,” “Che”
Regina Graves – “Café Society,” “The Taking of Pelham 123”
Isabelle Guay – “Arrival,” “The Revenant”
Paul Hotte – “Arrival,” “300”
Elston Howard – “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back,” “Ray”
Helen Jarvis – “Monuments Men,” “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
Tina Jones – “Belle,” “The Last King of Scotland”
Kathy Lucas – “The Divergent Series: Allegiant,” “Foxcatcher”
Naomi Shohan – “Winter’s Tale,” “American Beauty”
Carl Sprague – “Infinitely Polar Bear,” “The Royal Tenenbaums”
Jon Gary Steele – “Burlesque,” “American History X”
Patrick M. Sullivan, Jr. – “J. Edgar,” “Memoirs of a Geisha”
Karen J. TenEyck – “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

Diane Kruger kissing Fatih Akin at Cannes this year. He directed her to the Best Actress prize

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 Begić * – “Children of Sarajevo,” “Snow”
Emmanuelle Bercot – “Standing Tall,” “On My Way”
Martin Butler – “Tanna,” “Contact”
Patricia Cardoso – “Real Women Have Curves,” “The Water Carrier”
Peter Ho-Sun Chan – “Dragon,” “Perhaps Love”
Derek Cianfrance – “The Light between Oceans,” “Blue Valentine”
Pedro Costa – “Horse Money,” “Blood”
Garth Davis – “Lion”
Bentley Dean – “Tanna,” “Contact”
Lav Diaz * – “A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,” “Norte, the End of History”
Carlos Diegues – “Orfeu,” “Bye Bye Brazil”
Nelson Pereira dos Santos * – “How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,” “Barren Lives”
Nana Dzhordzhadze – “27 Missing Kisses,” “A Chef in Love”
Ildikó Enyedi * – “Simon Magus,” “My Twentieth Century”
Amat Escalante – “The Untamed,” “Heli”
Safi Faye * – “Mossane,” “Lettre Paysanne”
Tom Ford – “Nocturnal Animals,” “A Single Man”
Goutam Ghose * – “Dekha,”“Paar”
Jessica Hausner – “Amour Fou,” “Lourdes”
Joanna Hogg – “Archipelago,” “Exhibition”
Hannes Holm – “A Man Called Ove,” “Behind Blue Skies”
Ann Hui – “A Simple Life,” “Summer Snow”
Christine Jeffs – “Sunshine Cleaning,” “Sylvia”
Barry Jenkins * – “Moonlight,” “Medicine for Melancholy”
Alejandro Jodorowsky * – “The Holy Mountain,” “El Topo”
Kim Ki-duk * – “3-Iron,” “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring”
Zacharias Kunuk – “Searchers,” “The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)”
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina * – “Chronicle of the Years of Embers,” “The Winds of the Aures”
David Mackenzie – “Hell or High Water,” “Starred Up”
Sharon Maguire – “Incendiary,” “Bridget Jones’s Diary”
Theodore Melfi – “Hidden Figures,” “St. Vincent”
Kleber Mendonça Filho – “Aquarius,” “Neighboring Sounds”
Brillante Mendoza – “Thy Womb,” “Kinatay”
Márta Mészáros * – “Diary for My Children,” “Adoption”

omg. just try and imagine Takashi Miike's Oscar ballot. Haha

Takashi Miike – “13 Assassins,” “Ichi the Killer”
Orlando Montiel – “The Son of No One,” “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints”
Jocelyn Moorhouse – “The Dressmaker,” “Proof”
Kira Muratova – “The Tuner,” “The Asthenic Syndrome”
Héctor Olivera – “El Mural,” “Funny Dirty Little War”
Idrissa Ouedraogo * – “Tilaï,” “Yaaba”
Jordan Peele * – “Get Out”
Mohammad Rasoulof * – “Manuscripts Don’t Burn,” “Goodbye”
Eran Riklis * – “The Human Resources Manager,” “Lemon Tree”
Arturo Ripstein – “Deep Crimson,” “The Beginning and the End”
Guy Ritchie – “Sherlock Holmes,” “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”
Anthony Russo – “Captain America: Civil War,” “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”
Joseph Russo – “Captain America: Civil War,” “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”
Mrinal Sen * – “The Case Is Closed,” “In Search of Famine”
Cate Shortland – “Lore,” “Somersault”
Peter Sollett – “Freeheld,” “Raising Victor Vargas”
Juan Carlos Tabío – “Guantanamera,” “Strawberry and Chocolate”
Rawson Marshall Thurber – “Central Intelligence,” “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story”
Johnnie To – “Election,” “Exiled”
Tran Anh Hung * – “Norwegian Wood,” “The Scent of Green Papaya”
Pablo Trapero – “The Clan,” “Lion’s Den”
Athina Rachel Tsangari – “Chevalier,” “Attenberg”
Paula van der Oest – “Black Butterflies,” “Zus & Zo”
Susanna White – “Our Kind of Traitor,” “Nanny McPhee Returns”
Martin Zandvliet * – “Land of Mine,” “A Funny Man”

Documentary

Ricardo Acosta – “Sembene!,” “Marmato”
John Akomfrah – “The Stuart Hall Project,” “The Nine Muses”
Natalia Almada – “The Night Watchman (El Velador),” “The General”
Mirra Bank – “The Only Real Game,” “LastDance”
Geof Bartz – “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness,” “Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1”
Diane Becker – “We Are X,” “Jujitsu-ing Reality”
Edet Belzberg – “Watchers of the Sky,” “Children Underground”
Don Bernier – “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” “Audrie & Daisy”
Ruby Chen – “Plastic China,” “The Rocking Sky”
S. 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,” “LaLee’s Kin: The Legacy of Cotton”
Tabitha Jackson – “20,000 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: 270 Years of Resistance”
Eva Orner – “Chasing Asylum,” “Taxi to the Dark Side”
Heloísa Passos – “Manda Bala (Send a Bullet),” “Viva Volta”
Anand Patwardhan – “Jai Bhim Comrade,” “Pitra, Putra Aur Dharamyuddha (Father, Son and Holy War)”
Leanne Pooley – “Beyond the Edge,” “The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls”
Gianfranco Rosi – “Fire at Sea,” “Sacro Gra”
AJ Schnack – “Speaking Is Difficult,” “We Always Lie to Strangers”
Fisher Stevens – “Before the Flood,” “The Cove”
Jean-Marie Téno – “Lieux Saints (Sacred Places),” “Chef! (Chief!)”
Ben Tsiang – “The Chinese Mayor,” “Go Grandriders”
Orlando von Einsiedel – “The White Helmets,” “Virunga”
Aaron Wickenden – “Best of Enemies,” “Finding Vivian Maier”
Marina Zenovich – “Water & Power: A California Heist,” “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired”

Executives

Hussain Amarshi
Robert Bakish
Glen Basner
David Beaubaire
Dori Begley
Jonathan Berg
Gillian E. 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
DanTram Nguyen
Rachel O’Connor
Hengameh Panahi
Eric Paquette
John Penotti
Abhijay Prakash
Elizabeth Raposo
Shari Redstone
Emily Russo
Erin Siminoff
Alison Thompson
Michael Wright

Film Editors

Editor, director, and star of Selma image source

Spencer Averick – “13th,” “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”
Céline Kélépikis – “The Red Turtle,” “Now or Never”
Melissa Kent – “American Pastoral,” “The Age of Adaline”
Juan Carlos Macías – “Wild Horses,” “The Official Story”
Jim May – “Goosebumps,” “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
Fredrik Morheden – “A Man Called Ove,” “The New Country”
Christopher Murrie * – “Kubo and the Two Strings,” “Coraline”
Tania Michel Nehme – “Tanna,” “Charlie’s Country”
Tia Nolan – “Annie,” “Friends with Benefits”
Anne Østerud – “The Hunt,” “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Gregory Perler – “Sing,” “Despicable Me”
Jacopo Quadri – “Fire at Sea,” “The Dreamers”
Fabienne Rawley – “Zootopia,” “MonsterHouse”
Jake Roberts – “Hell or High Water,”“Brooklyn”
Hayedeh Safiyari – “The Salesman,” “A Separation”
Nat Sanders – “Moonlight,” “Short Term 12”
Per Sandholt – “Land of Mine,” “A Funny Man”
Suzanne Spangler – “Imperial Dreams,” “Smashed”
Molly Malene Stensgaard – “Land of Mine,” “Melancholia”
Alexandra Strauss – “I Am Not Your Negro,” “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence”
Christian Wagner – “The Fate of the Furious,” “Furious Seven”
Monika Willi – “Amour,” “The Piano Teacher”
Kate Williams – “The Whole Truth,” “Frozen River”
Dan Zimmerman – “The Dark Tower,” “The Maze Runner”
Lucia Zucchetti – “Their Finest,” “The Queen”
Eric Zumbrunnen – “Her,” “Adaptation”

Makeup Artists and Hairstylists

Richard Alonzo – “Star Trek Beyond,” “Alice in Wonderland”
Alessandro Bertolazzi – “Suicide Squad,” “Fury”
Christine Beveridge – “The Monuments Men,” “Under the Skin”
Felicity Bowring – “Gold,” “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”
Jerry DeCarlo – “Carol,” “Julie & Julia”
Patricia DeHaney – “Sully,” “Interstellar”
Naomi Donne – “Cinderella,” “Philomena”
Linda Dowds – “RoboCop,” “Rampart”
Audrey Doyle – “Legend,” “Mad Max: Fury Road”
Tina Earnshaw – “The Promise,” “Titanic”
Rick Findlater – “L’Odyssée (The Odyssey),” “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”

Paul Gooch

Paul Gooch – “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” “Maleficent”
Fae Hammond – “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” “The Legend of Tarzan”
Miia Kovero – “Inherent Vice,” “The Master”
Michael Marino – “American Pastoral,” “The Wrestler”
Frances Mathias – “Saving Mr. 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 Branch

Mark Adler – “Merchants of Doubt,” “Food, Inc.”
Edesio Alejandro – “La Pared de las Palabras,” “Suite Habana”
Nancy Allen – “Collateral Beauty,” “Black Swan”
David Amram – “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Splendor in the Grass”
Craig Armstrong – “Snowden,” “The Great Gatsby”
Angelo Badalamenti – “Mulholland Drive,” “Cousins”
Nicholas Britell – “Moonlight,” “The Big Short”
Nick Cave – “Hell or High Water,” “The Road”
Jordan Corngold – “War Dogs,” “Bridge of Spies”
Warren Ellis – “Hell or High Water,” “The Road”
Lisa Gerrard – “Jane Got a Gun,” “Layer Cake”
Justin Hurwitz – “La La Land,” “Whiplash”
Jimmy Jam – “Akeelah and the Bee,” “Poetic Justice”
Todd Kasow – “Miles Ahead,” “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Abel Korzeniowski – “Nocturnal Animals,” “A Single Man”
Mica Levi – “Jackie,” “Under the Skin”
Terry Lewis – “Akeelah and the Bee,” “Poetic Justice”
Lin-Manuel Miranda – “Moana,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
Atli Örvarsson – “The Edge of Seventeen,” “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones”
Benj Pasek – “La La Land,” “Trolls”
Justin Paul – “La La Land,” “Trolls”
Laurent Perez Del Mar – “The Red Turtle,” “Fear(s) of the Dark”
Jocelyn Pook – “Augustine,” “William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice”
Laura Rossi – “Unfinished Song,” “London to Brighton”
Philip Sheppard – “Love, Marilyn,” “The Tillman Story”
Stephen James Taylor – “Southside with You,” “Why Do Fools Fall in Love”
Justin Timberlake – “The Book of Love,” “Trolls”
Benjamin Wallfisch – “Hidden Figures,” “Lights Out”
Debbie Wiseman – “Middletown,” “Wilde”

Producers

Khadija Alami – “Insoumise (Rebellious Girl),” “Itar El-Layl (Narrow Frame of Midnight)”
Joshua Astrachan – “Paterson,” “Short Term 12”
Fred Berger – “The Autopsy of Jane Doe,” “La La Land”
Jason Michael Berman – “Burning Sands,” “The Birth of a Nation”
Moritz Borman – “Snowden,” “W.”
Karin Chien – “Circumstance,” “The Exploding Girl”
Michael Costigan – “Ghost in the Shell,” “A Bigger Splash”
Pablo Cruz – “Cesar Chavez,” “Miss Bala”
Mel Eslyn – “Lamb,” “The One I Love”
Howard Gertler – “How to Survive a Plague,” “Shortbus”
Aaron L. Gilbert – “Beatriz at Dinner,” “The Birth of a Nation”
Mindy Goldberg – “Low Down,” “Junebug”
Carla Hacken * – “The Book of Henry,” “Hell or High Water”
Jordan Horowitz – “La La Land,” “The Kids Are All Right”
Lars Knudsen – “American Honey,” “Beginners”
Juan de Dios Larraín – “Jackie,” “No”
Sophia Lin – “Z for Zachariah,” “Take Shelter”
Michel Merkt – “Elle,” “Toni Erdmann”
Bertha Navarro – “Pan’s Labyrinth,” “The Devil’s Backbone”
Alex Orlovsky – “The Place beyond the Pines,” “Blue Valentine”
Adele Romanski – “Moonlight,” “Morris from America”
Robert Salerno – “Nocturnal Animals,” “We Need to Talk about Kevin”
Jeffrey Sharp – “The Yellow Birds,” “You Can Count on Me”
Nansun Shi – “Flying Swords of Dragon Gate,” “A Simple Life”
Gabrielle Tana – “Philomena,” “The Invisible Woman”
Jenno Topping – “Hidden Figures,” “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”
Frida Torresblanco – “Rudo y Cursi,” “Pan’s Labyrinth”
Jay Van Hoy – “Complete Unknown,” “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”
Julie Yorn – “Hell or High Water,” “The Other Woman”

Public Relations

Clive Baillie
Michael Brown
Matt Cowal
Tomy Drissi
Sonya Y. Ede-Williams
Lynne Frank
Jonathan Garson
Peter Giannascoli
Marvin Gray
Simon Hewlett
Melissa Holloway
Angela Johnson
Wellington Love
Michelle Marks
Bill Neil
Douglas Neil
Angela Paura
Heather Johnson Phillips
Tom Piechura
Pamela Rodi
Ivette Rodriguez
Jeff Sanderson
Jerry Schmitz
Lauren Schwartz
Carol Sewell
Michael Singer
Afrat Spalding
Kristin Stark
Maggie Todd
Norman Wang
Bumble Ward
Joe Whitmore
Lea Yardum
Kevin Allen Yoder

Short Films and Feature Animation

Sélim Azzazi – “Ennemis Intérieurs,” “Enterrez Nos Chiens (Bury Our Dogs)”
Matt Baer – “The Croods,” “How to Train Your Dragon”
Kyle Balda – “Despicable Me 3,” “Minions”
Aske Bang – “Silent Nights,” “The Stranger”
Jacquie Barnbrook – “Live Music,” “The ChubbChubbs!”
Claude Barras – “My Life as a Zucchini,” “Banquise (Icefloe)”
Eric Beckman – “When Marnie Was There,” “Song of the Sea”
Jared Bush * – “Zootopia,” “Moana”
Carlos E. Cabral – “Big Hero 6,” “Frozen”
Giacun Caduff – “La Femme et le TGV,” “2B or Not 2B”
John K. Carr – “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” “Over the Hedge”
Jeeyun Sung Chisholm – “Ice Age: Collision Course,” “The Peanuts Movie”
Jericca Cleland – “Ratchet & Clank,” “Arthur Christmas”
Andrew Coats – “Smash and Grab,” “Borrowed Time”
John Cohen – “The Angry Birds Movie,” “Despicable Me”
Lindsey Collins – “Finding Dory,” “WALL-E”
Devin Crane – “Megamind,” “Monsters vs Aliens”
Ricardo Curtis – “The Book of Life,” “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who”
Richard Daskas – “Turbo,” “Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas”
Kristof Deák – “Sing,” “Losing It”
Jason Deamer – “Piper,” “Monsters University”
David DeVan – “Finding Dory,” “Brave”
Walt Dohrn – “Trolls,” “Mr. Peabody & Sherman”
Rob Dressel – “Moana,” “Big Hero 6”
Stefan Eichenberger – “Heimatland (Wonderland),” “Parvaneh”
David Eisenmann – “Pearl,” “Toy Story 3”
Patrik Eklund – “Seeds of the Fall,” “Instead of Abracadabra”
Steve Emerson * – “Kubo and the Two Strings,” “The Boxtrolls”
Lise Fearnley – “Me and My Moulton,” “The Danish Poet”
Mathias Fjellström – “Seeds of the Fall,” “Instead of Abracadabra”
Arish Fyzee – “The Pirate Fairy,”“Planes”
Juanjo Giménez – “Timecode,” “Maximum Penalty”
Andrew Gordon – “Monsters University,” “Presto”
Jinko Gotoh – “The Little Prince,” “9”
Eric Guillon – “Sing,” “The Secret Life of Pets”
Lou Hamou-Lhadj – “Borrowed Time,” “Day & Night”
John Hill – “Turbo,” “Shrek Forever After”
Steven “Shaggy” Hornby – “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” “Rise of the Guardians”
Steven Clay Hunter – “Brave,” “The Incredibles”
Alessandro Jacomini – “Big Hero 6,” “Tangled”
Christopher Jenkins – “Home,” “Surf’s Up”
Sean D. Jenkins – “Wreck-It Ralph,” “Bolt”
Phil Johnston * – “Zootopia,” “Wreck-ItRalph”
Oliver Jones * – “Kubo and the Two Strings,” “ParaNorman”
Mohit Kallianpur – “Frozen,” “Tangled”
Max Karli – “My Life as a Zucchini,” “Victoria”
Michael Kaschalk – “Big Hero 6,” “Paperman”
Karsten Kiilerich – “Albert,” “When Life Departs”
Timothy Lamb – “Trolls,” “Mr. Peabody & Sherman”
Gina Warr Lawes – “Zootopia,” “Kung Fu Panda 2”
Sang Jun Lee – “Rio 2,” “Epic”
Meg LeFauve – “The Good Dinosaur,” “Inside Out”
Jenny Lerew – “Mr. Peabody & Sherman,” “Flushed Away”
Brad Lewis – “Storks,” “Ratatouille”
Carl Ludwig – “Rio,” “Ice Age”
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean – “Feels Good,” “Sikumi (On the Ice)”
MaryAnn Malcomb – “Free Birds,” “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron”
Anders Mastrup – “Albert,” “When Life Departs”
Moon Molson – “The Bravest, the Boldest,” “Crazy Beats Strong Every Time”
Dave Mullins – “Cars 2,” “Up”
Michelle Murdocca – “Hotel Transylvania,” “Open Season”
Christopher Murrie * – “Kubo and the Two Strings,” “Coraline”
Ramsey Naito – “The Boss Baby,” “The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie”
Damon O’Beirne – “Kung Fu Panda 3,” “Rise of the Guardians”
Hyrum Virl Osmond – “Moana,” “Frozen”
Greg Pak – “Happy Fun Room,” “Super Power Blues”
James Palumbo – “Ice Age: Collision Course,” “Ice Age: Continental Drift”
Christine Panushka – “The Content of Clouds,” “The Sum of Them”
Pierre Perifel – “Rise of the Guardians,” “Kung Fu Panda 2”
Jeffrey Jon Pidgeon – “Monsters University,” “Up”
David Pimentel – “Moana,” “Big Hero 6”
Elvira Pinkhas – “Ice Age: Collision Course,” “Rio 2”
Kori Rae – “Monsters University,” “Tokyo Mater”
Mahesh Ramasubramanian – “Home,” “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted”
Ferenc Rofusz – “Gravitáció (Gravitation),” “The Fly”
Vicki Saulls – “The Peanuts Movie,” “Ice Age: Continental Drift”
Brad Schiff * – “Kubo and the Two Strings,” “The Boxtrolls”
William Schwab – “Frozen,” “Wreck-It Ralph”
Gina Shay – “Trolls,” “Shrek Forever After”
Jeff Snow – “Over the Hedge,” “The Road to El Dorado”
Peter Sohn – “The Good Dinosaur,” “Partly Cloudy”
Debra Solomon – “My Kingdom,” “Getting Over Him in 8 Songs or Less”
David Soren – “Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie,” “Turbo”
Cara Speller – “Pear Cider and Cigarettes,” “Pearl”
Peggy Stern – “Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood,” “The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation”
Michael Stocker – “Finding Dory,” “Toy Story 3”
Arianne Sutner – “Kubo and the Two Strings,”“ParaNorman”
Ennio Torresan – “Turbo,” “Till Sbornia Takes Us Apart”
Géza M. Toth – “Mama,” “Maestro”
Anna Udvardy – “Sing,” “Deep Breath”
Wayne Unten – “Frozen,” “Tick Tock Tale”
Theodore Ushev – “Blind Vaysha,” “Gloria Victoria”
Robert Valley – “Pear Cider and Cigarettes,” “Shinjuku”
Timo von Gunten – “La Femme et le TGV,” “Mosquito”
Gil Zimmerman – “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” “Puss in Boots”
Marilyn Zornado – “Old-Time Film,” “Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase”
Sound
Peter Albrechtsen – “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki,” “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Christopher Assells – “John Wick: Chapter 2,” “Spectre”
David Bach – “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” “Suicide Squad”
Sylvain Bellemare – “Arrival,” “Incendies”
Miriam Biderman – “Don’t Call Me Son,” “The Second Mother”
Charlotte Buys – “Call Me Thief,” “White Wedding”
Charlie Campagna – “Blade Runner 2049,” “Nocturnal Animals”
Harry Cohen – “The Fate of the Furious,” “The Hateful Eight”
Mohammad Reza Delpak – “The Salesman,” “A Separation”
Yann Delpuech – “The Founder,” “Saving Mr. Banks”
José Luis Díaz – “Wild Tales,” “The Secret in Their Eyes”
Jesse K-D. Dodd – “The Fate of the Furious,” “Jurassic World”
Amrit Pritam Dutta – “Kochadaiiyaan,” “Slumdog Millionaire”
Ezra Dweck – “Black Mass,” “Metallica Through the Never”
William Files – “Deadpool,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
Bernard Gariépy Strobl – “Arrival,” “War Witch”
Mariusz Glabinski – “The Wall,” “The Fifth Estate”
Peter Grace – “Hacksaw Ridge,” “The Square”
Gu Changning – “Monk Comes Down the Mountain,” “Caught in the Web”
Robert Hein – “Café Society,” “Blue Jasmine”
Douglas Jackson – “Logan,” “Schindler’s List”
Jonathan Klein – “Live by Night,” “Argo”
Claude La Haye – “Arrival,” “The Red Violin”
Robert Mackenzie – “Hacksaw Ridge,” “The Grandmaster”
Tony Martinez – “Carol,” “Revolutionary Road”
Steve A. Morrow – “La La Land,” “Up in the Air”
Jean-Paul Mugel – “Jackie,” “Paris, Texas”
Cheryl Nardi – “Captain America: Civil War,” “Brave”
Al Nelson – “Alice through the Looking Glass,” “Jurassic World”
Marc Orts – “A Monster Calls,” “Che”
Daniel Pagan – “All Eyez on Me,” “Frost/Nixon”
Geoffrey Patterson – “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” “Twister”
Margit Pfeiffer – “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” “Warrior”
Becki Ponting – “Philomena,” “Atonement”
Andy Potvin – “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “Life of Pi”
Richard Quinn – “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Gone Girl”
Jacob Ribicoff – “Manchester by the Sea,” “The Wrestler”
Robert L. Sephton – “Smurfs: The Lost Village,” “Remember the Titans”
Guntis Sics – “Kong: Skull Island,” “Moulin Rouge”
Jane Tattersall – “Barney’s Version,” “American Psycho”
Steven Ticknor – “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” “The Lincoln Lawyer”
Derek Vanderhorst – “Hidden Figures,” “The Ides of March”
Bryon E. Williams – “Kubo and the Two Strings,” “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 & 2)”
Katy Wood – “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” “True Grit”
Andy Wright – “Hacksaw Ridge,” “Ponyo”

Visual Effects

Arundi Asregadoo – “The Legend of Tarzan,” “The Revenant”
Steve Begg – “Spectre,” “Casino Royale”
Félix Bergés – “A Monster Calls,” “The Impossible”
Angus Bickerton – “Victor Frankenstein,” “Dark Shadows”
Jason Billington – “Deepwater Horizon,”“Avatar”
Nafees Bin Zafar – “Kung Fu Panda 3,” “How to Train Your Dragon 2”
Rod Bogart – “John Carter,” “Brave”
Cosmas Paul Bolger, Jr. – “Frozen,” “The Day the Earth Stood Still”
Pierre Buffin – “The Divergent Series: Allegiant,” “Life of Pi”
Sonja Burchard – “Rise of the Guardians,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Mark Byers – “Hidden Figures,” “The Sea of Trees”
Mike Chambers – “Alice through the Looking Glass,” “Inception”
Vincent Cirelli – “Doctor Strange,” “Captain America: Civil War”
Brian Cox – “The Wolverine,” “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”
Joyce Cox * – “The Jungle Book,” “Avatar”
Jan Philip Cramer – “Independence Day: Resurgence,” “Deadpool”
Janelle Croshaw – “Tron: Legacy,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Denise Davis – “Pixels,” “X-Men: FirstClass”
Brennan Doyle – “Marvel’s The Avengers,” “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
Pauline Duvall – “Deadpool,” “Star Trek Beyond”
Christopher D. Edwards * – “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” “Doctor Strange”
Steve Emerson * – “Kubo and the Two Strings,” “The Boxtrolls”
Doug Epps – “Mars Needs Moms,” “Disney’s A Christmas Carol”
Conny Fauser – “Tomorrowland,” “Iron Man”
Paul Giacoppo – “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Pacific Rim”
Joachim Grüninger – “The Impossible,” “John Rabe”
Rhonda C. Gunner – “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” “Wrath of the Titans”
Craig Hammack – “Deepwater Horizon,” “Tomorrowland”
Jonathan Harb – “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1,” “Elysium”
Darren Hendler – “Furious Seven,” “Maleficent”
Erik Henry – “Dead Man Down,” “The Expendables 2”
David Hodgins – “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” “2012”
Matt Johnson – “Into the Woods,” “X-Men: First Class”
Oliver Jones * – “Kubo and the Two Strings,”“ParaNorman”
Nikos Kalaitzidis – “The Fate of the Furious,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past”
Daniel Kramer – “Ghostbusters,” “Edge of Tomorrow”
Francois Lambert – “Ant-Man,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”
Mohen Leo – “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Deepwater Horizon”
John M. Levin – “Jurassic World,” “Lucy”
Jacqui Lopez – “Elysium,” “The Great Gatsby”
Fumi Mashimo – “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor”
Glen McIntosh – “The Mummy,” “Jurassic World”
Keith Francis Miller – “Wonder Woman,” “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”
Mohsen Mousavi – “Independence Day: Resurgence,” “The Amazing Spider-Man”
Colette Mullenhoff – “Doctor Strange,” “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”
Peter Muyzers – “Elysium,” “District 9”
Kenneth Nakada – “Fantastic Four,” “Life of Pi”
Steve Nichols – “Suicide Squad,” “Guardians of the Galaxy”
David Niednagel – “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
Brett Northcutt – “Lucy,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”
Danielle Plantec – “Immortals,” “Hereafter”
Darren Michael Poe – “The Hateful Eight,” “Godzilla”
Nordin Rahhali – “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” “Iron Man 3”
Philippe Rebours – “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Avatar”
Jay Redd – “Alice through the Looking Glass,” “Men in Black 3”
Jonathan Rothbart – “Deadpool,” “Avatar”
Brad Schiff * – “Kubo and the Two Strings,” “ParaNorman”
J.D. Schwalm – “The Fate of the Furious,” “The Jungle Book”
Thomas J. Smith – “Argo,” “Contagion”
Jason Snell – “Deepwater Horizon,” “Now You See Me”
Robert Stadd – “War Dogs,” “Public Enemies”
Paul Story – “The Jungle Book,” “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”
Ryan Tudhope – “Deadpool,” “Looper”
Robert Weaver – “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows,” “Star Trek Into Darkness”
Louis Zutavern – “The Dictator,” “Elf”

Writers

Karim Aïnouz – “Love for Sale,” “Madame Satã”
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad – “Under the Skin of the City,” “The May Lady”
Siddiq Barmak * – “Opium War,” “Osama”
Aida Begić * – “Children of Sarajevo,” “Snow”
Jeremy Brock – “True Crimes,” “The Last King of Scotland”
Jared Bush * – “Zootopia,” “Moana”
John Collee – “Tanna,” “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World”
Buddhadeb Dasgupta – “The Wrestlers,” “The Red Door”
Kenneth Angelo Daurio, Jr. – “The Secret Life of Pets,” “Despicable Me”
Luke Davies – “Lion,” “Life”
Mohamed Diab – “Clash,” “Cairo 678”
Lav Diaz * – “A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,” “Norte, the End of History”
Katie Dippold – “Snatched,” “Ghostbusters”
Nelson Pereira dos Santos * – “How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,” “Barren Lives”
Ildikó Enyedi * – “Simon Magus,” “My Twentieth Century”
Safi Faye * – “Mossane,” “Lettre Paysanne”
Feng Xiaogang – “If You Are the One,” “A World without Thieves”
Paz Alicia Garciadiego – “Bleak Street,” “Deep Crimson”
Bahman Ghobadi – “Turtles Can Fly,” “A Time for Drunken Horses”
Goutam Ghose * – “Shankhachil,” “Paar”
Eric Heisserer – “Arrival,” “Lights Out”

 

Barry Jenkins invited to both writers and director's branches

Barry Jenkins * – “Moonlight,” “Medicine for Melancholy”
Alejandro Jodorowsky * – “The Holy Mountain,” “El Topo”
Phil Johnston * – “Zootopia,” “Wreck-It Ralph”
Kim Ki-duk * – “3-Iron,” “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring”
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina * – “Chronicle of the Years of Embers,” “The Winds of the Aures”
Brit Marling – “The East,” “Another Earth”
Márta Mészáros * – “Diary for My Children,” “Adoption”
Mike Mills – “20th Century Women,” “Beginners”
Idrissa Ouedraogo * – “Tilaï,” “Yaaba”
Éva Pataki – “The Seventh Room,” “Diary for My Loves”
Cinco Paul – “The Secret Life of Pets,” “DespicableMe”
Jordan Peele * – “Get Out,” “Keanu”
Simon Pegg – “Run Fat Boy Run,” “Shaun of the Dead”
Mohammad Rasoulof * – “Manuscripts Don’t Burn,” “Goodbye”
Eran Riklis * – “Lemon Tree,” “The Syrian Bride”
Céline Sciamma – “My Life as a Zucchini,” “Tomboy”
Mrinal Sen * – “The Case Is Closed,” “In Search of Famine”
Taylor Sheridan – “Hell or High Water,” “Sicario”
Sooni Taraporevala – “Mississippi Masala,” “Salaam Bombay!”
Tran Anh Hung * – “Norwegian Wood,” “The Scent of Green Papaya”


Joss Whedon – “Marvel’s The Avengers,” “The Cabin in the Woods”
William Wheeler – “Queen of Katwe,” “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”
Yau Nai-hoi – “Three,” “Election”
Mauricio Zacharias – “Little Men,” “Love Is Strange”
Martin Zandvliet * – “Land of Mine,” “A Funny Man”

Members-at-Large

Pippa Anderson
Margaret Bodde
Dan Bradley
Brooke Breton
Chris Brigham
Jill Brooks
Stephen Broussard
Stephen Campanelli
Joyce Cox *
Charles Croughwell
Andrew Z. Davis
Steve M. Davison
Bill Draper
Mitch Dubin
Christopher D. Edwards *
Mickey Giacomazzi
Richard Glasser
Jeffrey W. Harlacker
Thomas R. Harper
Jill Hopper
Craig Hosking
Gary Hymes
Andrea Kalas
Jeanie King
Natasha Léonnet
Todd London
Erika McKee
Mary McLaglen
Ujwal Narayan Nirgudkar
Cyndi Ochs
Howard Paar
Darwyn Peachey
Louis Phillips
Susan Pickett
Thomas Poole
Darrin Prescott
Bérénice Robinson
Lee Rosenthal
Rebekah Rudd
P. Scott Sakamoto
Dana Sano
William O. Schultz
Ellen H. Schwartz
William Sherak
Brian Smrz
John Stoneham, Jr.
David Taritero
Garrett Warren
Raymond Yeung
Associates
Rowena Arguelles
Peter Benedek
Jim Berkus
George Freeman
Harry Gold
Scott Greenberg
Brandt Joel
Keya Khayatian
Richard Klubeck
Jessica Lacy
Jon Levin
Rhonda Price
Hylda Queally
Philip Raskind
Stephanie Ritz
Rajendra Roy
Mick Sullivan

* Invited to join the Academy by multiple branches. This means the invitee will have to choose which branch they would like to join because you can't join multiple in one year. So Barry Jenkins for example, will have to decide if he wants to be in the Directors or Writers branch to begin with.

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Reader Comments (59)

Debbie Allen is primarily a television director these days.

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered Commenter/3rtful

BETTY WHITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterDAVID

I'm happy for Betty White!

And also Brian Smrz - it's nice to see some stunt performers make it in.

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterErik

Viggo Mortensen was NOT a member already?! Okay, Academy.

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterBVR

Betty White, a national treasure!

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered Commenterbrandz

Two words: Anne Heche. (Yaaaaas!)

AMPAS continues to flummox. How, for example, are Angelo Badalamenti, Jocelyn Moorhouse, and two-time nominee Viggo Mortensen *not* already members? Does being Oscar nominated not automatically translate to being invited?

Also, is Joss Whedon only a [soon-to-be] member of the writers' branch, not the directors' branch? (And in the same year that Suicide Squad's Margot Robbie and David Ayer gets invited. Ouch.)

Super happy for Judy Greer and Sarah Paulson, too.

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterMareko

Mareko -- from my understanding these lists are just who they invited but not everyone accepts the invitation. Perhaps Viggo turned it down in the past? Weirdly it is not automatic to get in if you're nominated.

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterNATHANIEL R

For some reason I'm most excited about Mary Elizabeth Winstead!

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterBushwick

Viggo DID turn it down in the past but is accepting now.

Question though: do all members of the academy get screeners of the movies released for consideration?

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterChuck

Some notable LGBTQ people too: Colman Domingo, Kate McKinnon, Zachary Quinto, Wanda Sykes, B.D. Wong, Tom Ford. Probably more...

The biggest "sticks out like a sore thumb" one for me is Lou Ferrigno. Not trying to begrudge him, good for him.

And that is a LOT of animators lol.

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterKirby

Here's a great resource to see who is currently an Academy member: http://nevertooearlymoviepredictions.blogspot.com/

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterKirby

Thank you for all that list making.

But it does look like, once you got yourself a name, you've gotten yourself into the Academy. Let's just hope this does break up the monotony.

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered Commenterforever1267

Shocked that Chris Pine wasn't invited - Pratt, Evans, and Hemsworth all were!

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterTyler

I also find it odd that the Academy will invite people to present on the show, but then wait a while to invite them into the Academy (e.g., McKinnon, Evans, Timberlake, and Tatum).

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterErik

How bollywood heavy is this list!

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterRizz

They watch a lot of TV, like we all do.

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterPeggy Sue

Some of these choices are A+ - Sarah Paulson (!!!), Jon Hamm, Judy Greer, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Kristen Stewart, and all this year's past Oscar nominees (Mortensen, Negga, Hedges, etc.).

Leslie Jones, Priyanka Chopra? I'm sorry but what have they contributed to the cinematic landscape? Their careers are so young and they primarily work in television. I can even understand Janelle Monae's invite over them (she had a fantastic movie debut with her first two films being nominated for best picture).

I hope Isabelle Huppert is already a member. Because that is completely awful if they overlooked her.

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterAaron

Rizz: I noticed that too. Poor Abhishek Bachchan. "Was there a third invitation in the mail?"

Aaron: Priyanka Chopra has a slim American resume, but she did enough work in India before crossing over to TV's Quantico.

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterBrevity

Does this make it more expensive for studios to campaign/send screeners? Sounds like they are increasing membership a shitload which could be trouble for smaller studios (and a benefit for the big ones).


That's what I'm interested in.

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered Commenterhuh

huh -- that's a very good point.

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterPeggy Sue

Yeah. That's why a lot of groups have a restricted membership that votes in any given year (a rotation of sorts). I don't think oscar is like that yet. And, if I recall, when they were making all the rule changes, the academy was very clear that even non-active/non-voting members would get screeners, right?

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterHuh

The Riz Ahmed and Adam Driver invites make me think of John Boyega - another Star Wars star with charisma & talent, but he wasn't invited - what gives?

I also don't mind invites for people like Terry Crews, Jon Hamm, Keegan-Michael Key, and Jordan Peele* being invited - even if their filmographies are not very substantial as compared to their tv work, they are talented & likable. I could see how it might grate that some film legends are not invited, but I think the answer is to expand who gets invited to include legends and people who have worked extensively in movies but are less famous (e.g. Greta Gerwig or Melanie Lynskey), not to exclude folks who are more famous but have done quite a bit of tv work.

Absolutely love invites for Leung, Cheung, Irrfan Khan, Charlotte Gainsbourg (how was she not already invited?), Domhnall Gleeson, and Anna Deavere Smith.

@Tyler - plus Pine was the lead in a BP nominee, something none of the other Hollywood Chrises have gotten even close to doing!

*I know he was invited to the Director's branch, but there's almost no way his fame from acting didn't factor in.

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterRebecca

Huh -- yes, this will make it much more difficult for the indies money-wise because they have to produce way more screeners now.

June 28, 2017 | Registered CommenterNATHANIEL R

Appreciate the strong love for (the 2000s) Hong Kong cinema! Not only Cheung and Leung but also (Mrs. Leung) Carina Lau, Donnie Yen, Ann Hui and Johnnie To. I really hope this will lead to a Chinese actor being nominated eventually...

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered Commenterkin

Apparently Chris Pine has already been a member since 2015.

http://www.vulture.com/2017/06/academy-members-chris-pratt-chris-hemsworth-chris-evans.html

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterAmanda

ANNE HECHE!!!!!! YAY

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterAmandaBuffamonteezi

Aaron, I feel like I remember her name being on last year's list.

I know when I think of Charlotte Gainsbourg, my mind immediately goes to "Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer"!

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterGlenn Dunks

10 years ago, and Lindsay Lohan would've been an invitée. Ditto for Jennifer Love Hewitt. Imagine that.

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterMareko

Look, I love their initiative to invite more POCs, women, and I personally love all the international invitees but there's more than a few names that feel like they're scraping from the bottom of the barrel and they REALLY shouldn't be. I mean not EVERYONE should be invited, right?

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterRyan T.

@Mareko, Over the months, I've noticed that yourself and myself have always singled out Anne Heche for (extraordinarily deserved and over-due) praise. Do you feel as if her career in a bit of a turning point these days? She's always clearly been willing and very able to work but I feel as if we could see potentially major changes in her film offers these coming months. Not that the invitation to the AMPAS has changed that directly, just something I've noticed in following her career all these years.

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterAmandaBuffamonteezi

My aunt Augusta is sad that she wasn't invited.

June 28, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterMelchiades

John Boyega - another Star Wars star with charisma & talent, but he wasn't invited - what gives?// = I think he was invited last year.

June 29, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterIrvin

@Irvin and others - thank you for correcting my mistake. I hope John Boyega has already been invited, but it is difficult to find a list of current Academy members - the list on Wikipedia is for board members, the Academy only lists ways to become a member. If you have other ways of finding a list, I would appreciate it.

June 29, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterRebecca

Debbie Allen wasn't already a member? Wow

June 29, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterSteve

I cannot wait to read/hear Nick Cave's public response this news.

June 29, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterEz

Tyler - Chris Pine is AMPAS member is 2015: http://www.oscars.org/news/academy-invites-322-membership

Albeit not perfect, this inclusion is really refreshing and can open new doors for diversity.

Also for the weird names (Like Ferrigno), sometimes these people can surprise you with their cinephile tastes.

June 29, 2017 | Unregistered Commenterleon

And yes. Huppert, Braga and Boyega ARE AMPAS members. Please, before reclaiming, check this link.

http://nevertooearlymoviepredictions.blogspot.mx/2012/04/the-academy-members-project-bo-to-bq.html
http://nevertooearlymoviepredictions.blogspot.mx/2012/05/the-academy-members-project-ho-to-hz.html
http://nevertooearlymoviepredictions.blogspot.mx/2012/04/the-academy-members-project-br-to-bz.html

June 29, 2017 | Unregistered Commenterleon

@Brevity: LOL! Even in writing that is super awkward. But the list tries to be so hip with these Bolywood stars, Deepika Padukone over Shabana Aazmi or Tabu, even Kajol. That just looks suspect.

June 29, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterRizz

Berlin and Venice Film Festival winner Lav Diaz, along with Cannes winner Brillante Mendoza are the first Filipino filmmakers and fully-pledged Filipino citizens to be invited by the AMPAS.

The fact that they are festival fixtures and have been churning acclaimed films for decades (Lav Diaz started as a "pito-pito" (seven days to make a film for a less than a million pesos budget) writer-director in 1996 while Brillante Mendoza is a former production designer and an independent film director (and occasional TV series director for GMA-7 Network) since 2005) shows they have the credentials necessary to be a member (if they will accept which I know they will especially in the case of Diaz who is also invited as a writer).

So they are willing to drop the quality and add Bollywood and TV Stars in order to show that they are diverse. Tragic.

June 29, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterNO.

I mean really. They are supposed to reward excellence in film. How can you participate if all your films are bad/generic or if you haven't been doing movies ?

June 29, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterNO.

NO. Please, this is a really elitist and snobbist criticism. First of all, AMPAS was full of white middle aged men with dubious credentials (And even many of them were actually TV actors). But no, white men are allowed. Then, just because actors are mostly known as TV stars don't mean their credentials are unvalid. Talent is talent regardless the medium. And yep also theater should apply.

Next, people should really be surprised how the preferences can be really opposed of the success or talent of the person in consideration. I bet any of you watch some of their lists of their favorite movies and actors, you will be surprised (As AW mentioned, recently most of the acclaimed auteurs as presidents gave us some of the most middling Palme d'Or winners in history of Cannes, while some of the other presidents which people critizied gave the Palme to excellent, changeling and artistic films). TFE favorite actor (Jake Gyllenhaal) mentioned his favorite film was "Jerry Maguire" or how Sofia Coppola really loved "Daddy's Home" while people like Sienna Miller (Eisenstein's October) or Rob Reiner (Rocco and his brothers) mentioned masterpieces.

And last, Bollywood like any other film industry around the world produced garbage, but it's also a respectable group of talents and great films behind. While the system isn't perfect, this allowes more doors open and opportunities.

June 29, 2017 | Unregistered Commenterleon

"They are supposed to reward excellence in film. How can you participate if all your films are bad/generic or if you haven't been doing movies ?"

In a perfect world, it must work like that, but this isn't a perfect world and people can be more complicated than that. Just because actors appear in questionable films or directors do these kind of films doesn't mean they have bad taste. Art is really subjective and the line of work can be completely different than judging the work of others or even develop a certain taste. An actor can't have talent or opportunities (If there's a POC, which it's relegated on TV) but that doesn't mean he/she can't appreciated a film. That also happen with the average people.

June 29, 2017 | Unregistered Commenterleon

So what ? Is the answer to white people with dubious credentials added to add more people with dubious credentials to show diversity ? Why repeat mistakes of the past ?
You are also using examples that are based on possibility. In reality, making TV shows and Bollywood films differs from making quality Hollywood films. One who has been a part of such films has more understanding of the business. And yes, those people MAY have good taste but in general they don't have that deaper understanding of film as other members do. I'm not opposed to actually talented people being added. I'm opposed to semi-untalented people added such as Gal Gadot, Priyanka Chopra and Dwayne Johnson (two of which just made the dreadful Baywatch and haven't contributed anything in any way to the movie industry) just because they are "diverse". Give me Barry Jenkins anyday over them.
And finally, in the last two years they have added around 1,500 people in the Academy. This can result in making the Oscar Race a popularity competition, as indie film makers will find it increasingly difficult to campaign.

June 29, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterNO.

This can result in making the Oscar Race a popularity competition, as indie film makers will find it increasingly difficult to campaign.

The full irony of this point is in the last year, the indie circle has become more open and succesful at the Oscars than before and the lineups have become blurred

One who has been a part of such films has more understanding of the business. And yes, those people MAY have good taste but in general they don't have that deaper understanding of film as other members do.

Again, does it matter? This question of deeper understanding is more like an elitist excuse for opposing more opinions beyond the common ground of decision. And sorry, but also taste is influential in the point of voting (Look with the honest votes). This is like the reasoning of "You can't sit with us. We're the smarter".

June 29, 2017 | Unregistered Commenterleon

Sorry - it was in the last years.

June 29, 2017 | Unregistered Commenterleon

Well up to 2015, the voters were 1,500 less than this year. So we'll see what happens in the future.

This is like the reasoning of "You can't sit with us. We're the smarter".

Again you oversimplify matters. If you think Dwayne Johnson should determine who wins Best Picture in the most prestigious and most watched awards show worldwide that is known for its high quality then go on, keep on supporting your opinion. I'm done.

June 29, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterNO.

Again you oversimplify matters. If you think Dwayne Johnson should determine who wins Best Picture in the most prestigious and most watched awards show worldwide that is known for its high quality then go on, keep on supporting your opinion. I'm done.

Because perhaps since the beginning this award was given with an unwarranted prestige? Lol. The Oscars may pretend for high quality, but this line is simple naif. So if you really believe blindly it's your problem and blindness.

Anyway, I care for results not for status. If these admissions gave us inspired noms and wins, well bring them. Results matters at the end. These levels of status is just a ridicule etiquette

June 29, 2017 | Unregistered Commenterleon

Good for Argentine director Pablo Trapero (Lion's Den, The Clan). But Adolfo Aristarain? Really? I loved his work but his last movie was back in 2004!

Shouldn't they have invited Santiago Mitre (The Student, Paulina and the up-coming The Summit)? Or Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn, of The Distinguished Citizen?

I don't know if she is already a member, but what about Lucrecia Martel? I believe Damián Szifrón is a member.

And don't get me started on actors: the ever-present Ricardo Darín (though I have to admit he would probably decline), Oscar Martínez, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Rodrigo de la Serna, Dolores Fonzi and Soledad Villamil.

This wish-list is obviously a bit unrealistic, I know. But all of the above have been in films that received nominations or great international acclaim.

June 29, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterMarcos

Yeah leon. Good luck with the inspired noms and wins.

June 29, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterNO.
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