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# Academy Invites Largest, Most Diverse Class of New Members Ever

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#### What bank is built for life today?

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* Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account.
* No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle.
* Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner.
* Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.

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## Oliver Gettell / Entertainment Weekly


Jun 29, 2016 10:14 PM UTC

![John Boyega and Oscar Isaac attend the European Premiere of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' at Leicester Square on December 16, 2015 in London, England.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb260f2c272e258c/6988793da988ca18946b6211/oscar-isaac-poe-dameron-comic-book.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=3:2)

John Boyega and Oscar Isaac attend the European Premiere of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' at Leicester Square on December 16, 2015 in London, England.

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## Oliver Gettell / Entertainment Weekly


Jun 29, 2016 10:14 PM UTC

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the largest and most diverse class of new members in its 89-year history, with John Boyega, Eva Mendes, Oscar Isaac, Emma Watson, James Wan, and Lana and Lilly Wachowski among the 683 invitees.

The group underscores the academy’s ongoing efforts to broaden its ranks — which have historically been overwhelmingly white, male, and older — in the wake of the #OscarsSoWhite controversy that erupted earlier this year when [no actors of color](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/14/oscars-so-white-2016) were nominated for Oscars (for the second year in a row). The controversy prompted the academy to [drastically overhaul](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/22/oscars-diversity-membership-changes) its membership rules and goals.

The new class is more than double last year’s 322 invitees, and the academy highlighted the group’s diversity in an announcement Wednesday. Forty-six percent of the new members are female, and 41 percent are people of color. Those numbers are enough to bring the overall makeup of the 7,000-plus-member organization up to 27 percent female (from 25 percent) and 11 percent people of color (from 8 percent).

The new class also includes 283 international members from 59 countries, while the group’s ages range from 24 to 91.

Other invitees include actors Brie Larson, Idris Elba, Carmen Ejogo, America Ferrera, Freida Pinto, and Michael B. Jordan; writers Tina Fey, Abi Morgan, Takeshi Kitano, and O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson (also invited as an actor); and directors Cary Joji Fukunaga, Ryan Coogler (also selected as a writer), Lexi Alexander, Xavier Dolan, and Ana Lily Amirpour. Individuals invited to multiple branches, as in the case of Coogler and Jackson, must choose one group upon accepting their membership.


“This class continues our long-term commitment to welcoming extraordinary talent reflective of those working in film today,” Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs said in the announcement. “We encourage the larger creative community to open its doors wider, and create opportunities for anyone interested in working in this incredible and storied industry.”

The 2016 invitees are:

**Actors**  
 Mahershala Ali — The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button  
 Anthony Anderson — The Departed, Hustle & Flow  
 Adam Beach — Suicide Squad, Flags of Our Fathers  
 Kate Beckinsale — Love & Friendship, The Aviator  
 Chadwick Boseman — Captain America: Civil War, Get on Up  
 John Boyega — Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Attack the Block  
 Betty Buckley — Wyatt Earp, Carrie  
 Rose Byrne — X-Men: First Class, Bridesmaids  
 Julie Carmen — The Milagro Beanfield War, Gloria  
 Enrique Castillo — Déjà Vu, Bound by Honor  
 Morris Chestnut — G.I. Jane, Boyz N the Hood  
 Cliff Curtis — Live Free or Die Hard, Training Day  
 Loretta Devine — Crash, I Am Sam  
 Carmen Ejogo — Selma, Sparkle  
 Idris Elba — Beasts of No Nation, Pacific Rim  
 America Ferrera — Cesar Chavez, End of Watch  
 Vivica A. Fox — Kill Bill, Independence Day  
 Andrew Garfield — 99 Homes, The Amazing Spider-Man  
 Greta Gerwig — Frances Ha, To Rome with Love  
 Jesse D. Goins — The Ugly Truth, Patriot Games  
 Bruce Greenwood — Flight, Star Trek  
 Carla Gugino — Watchmen, Night at the Museum  
 Luis Guzmán — Punch-Drunk Love, Carlito’s Way  
 Dennis Haysbert — Dear White People, Wreck-It Ralph  
 Tom Hiddleston — Crimson Peak, Marvel’s The Avengers  
 James Hong — Safe, Mulan  
 Oscar Isaac — Ex Machina, A Most Violent Year  
 O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson\* — Ride Along, Friday  
 Dakota Johnson — Black Mass, Fifty Shades of Grey  
 Cherry Jones — Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Signs  
 Michael B. Jordan — Creed, Fruitvale Station  
 Daniel Dae Kim — The Divergent Series: Insurgent, Crash  
 Regina King — Ray, Jerry Maguire  
 Brie Larson — Room, Trainwreck  
 Byung-Hun Lee — Terminator Genisys, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra  
 Nia Long — Keanu, Boyz N the Hood  
 Sal Lopez — The Astronaut Farmer, Full Metal Jacket  
 Ignacio López Tarso — Under the Volcano, Nazarin  
 Patti LuPone — Parker, Driving Miss Daisy  
 Peter Mackenzie — Trumbo, 42  
 Rachel McAdams — Spotlight, Midnight in Paris  
 Eva Mendes — The Place beyond the Pines, Hitch  
 Tatsuya Nakadai — Ran, Kagemusha  
 Adepero Oduye — The Big Short, 12 Years a Slave  
 Marisa Paredes — The Skin I Live In, All about My Mother  
 Nate Parker — Beyond the Lights, Red Tails  
 Harold Perrineau — Zero Dark Thirty, 28 Weeks Later  
 Jorge Perugorría — Che, Strawberry and Chocolate  
 Silvia Pinal — Vintage Model, The Exterminating Angel  
 Freida Pinto — Immortals, Slumdog Millionaire  
 Michelle Rodriguez — Avatar, Girlfight  
 Anika Noni Rose — For Colored Girls, Dreamgirls  
 Cecilia Roth — Lucia Lucia, All about My Mother  
 Mark Rylance — Bridge of Spies, The Other Boleyn Girl  
 Pepe Serna — The Black Dahlia, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez  
 Martin Starr — I’ll See You in My Dreams, Adventureland  
 Elizabeth Sung — Memoirs of a Geisha, The Joy Luck Club  
 Sharmila Tagore — Dhadkan, The World of Apu  
 Tessa Thompson — Creed, Dear White People  
 Lorraine Toussaint — Selma, Middle of Nowhere  
 Glynn Turman — Super 8, Men of Honor  
 Gabrielle Union — Top Five, Bad Boys II  
 Jacob Vargas — The 33, Jarhead  
 Alicia Vikander — The Danish Girl, Ex Machina  
 Emma Watson — The Bling Ring, The Perks of Being a Wallflower  
 Damon Wayans, Jr. — Big Hero 6, Let’s Be Cops  
 Marlon Wayans — The Heat, Requiem for a Dream  
 Rita Wilson — It’s Complicated, Runaway Bride  
 Daphne Zuniga — Staying Together, Spaceballs


**Casting Directors**  
 Shaheen Baig — Youth, The Impossible  
 Sharon Bialy — Secret in Their Eyes, Mr. Holland’s Opus  
 Sara Bilbatua — Pan’s Labyrinth, The Devil’s Backbone  
 Antoinette Boulat — Diary of a Chambermaid, The Grand Budapest Hotel  
 Deirdre Bowen — Eastern Promises, Billy Madison  
 Jacqueline Brown — Akeelah and the Bee, Jackie Brown  
 Carmen Cuba — The Martian, Side Effects  
 Christian Kaplan — The Book of Life, Rio  
 Moonyeenn Lee — Avengers: Age of Ultron, Blood Diamond  
 Natalie Lyon — Inside Out, Toy Story 3  
 Walter Rippell — Everybody Has a Plan, The Secret in Their Eyes  
 Richard Rousseau — Saint Laurent, Renoir  
 Kim Taylor-Coleman — Dope, Oldboy  
 Manuel Teil — Babel, Y Tu Mamá También

**Cinematographers**  
 Bárbara Alvarez — The Second Mother, Whisky  
 C. Mitchell Amundsen — Ride Along 2, Now You See Me  
 Adam Arkapaw — Macbeth, McFarland, USA  
 Sergio Armstrong — No, The Maid  
 Michael Barrett — Ted 2, A Million Ways to Die in the West  
 Natasha Braier — The Rover, The Milk of Sorrow  
 Lula Carvalho — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, RoboCop  
 Caroline Champetier — Holy Motors, Of Gods and Men  
 Enrique Chediak — The 5th Wave, The Maze Runner  
 Charlotte Bruus Christensen — Far from the Madding Crowd, The Hunt  
 Sofian El Fani — Timbuktu, Blue Is the Warmest Color  
 Mátyás Erdély — Son of Saul, The Quiet Ones  
 Frank Griebe — A Hologram for the King, Cloud Atlas  
 Kirsten Johnson\* — CitizenFour, This Film Is Not Yet Rated  
 Judith Kaufmann — 13 Minutes, Inbetween Worlds  
 Jeanne Lapoirie — Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, My Little Princess  
 Hélène Louvart — The Wonders, Pina  
 Félix Monti — Our Last Tango, The Secret in Their Eyes  
 Peter Pau — The Forbidden Kingdom, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon  
 Daniel Pearl — Friday the 13th, Aliens vs. Predator — Requiem  
 Poon Hang-Sang — Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster, Kung Fu Hustle  
 Gökhan Tiryaki — Winter Sleep, Once upon a Time in Anatolia  
 Kim White — Inside Out, Toy Story 3  
 Jo Willems — The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire  
 Steve Yedlin — Carrie, Looper  
 Nelson Yu Lik-Wai — A Simple Life, 24 City  
 Haris Zambarloukos — Cinderella, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit  
 Zhao Fei — The Sun Also Rises, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion


**Costume Designers**  
 Olivier Bériot — Lucy, Taken  
 Madeline Fontaine — The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, Yves Saint Laurent  
 Pierre-Yves Gayraud — Albert Nobbs, The Bourne Identity  
 Sonia Grande — Magic in the Moonlight, Even the Rain  
 Suttirat Anne Larlarb — Steve Jobs, 127 Hours  
 Manon Rasmussen — Nymphomaniac, A Royal Affair

**Designers**  
 Yoshihito Akatsuka — The Left Ear, Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale  
 Kokayi Ampah — Knight and Day Flags of Our Fathers  
 Jille Azis — Magic in the Moonlight, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy  
 Hannah E. Beachler — Miles Ahead, Creed  
 Bert Berry — Inside Out, Cars 2  
 Celia Bobak — The Martian, Shanghai  
 Stephanie Carroll — Elsa & Fred, Monsoon Wedding  
 Sue Chan — Gone Girl, 300: Rise of an Empire  
 Rodolfo Damaggio — Tomorrowland, Terminator Genisys  
 Rena DeAngelo — Bridge of Spies, The Judge  
 Warren Drummond — Straight Outta Compton, Nightcrawler  
 Colin Gibson — Mad Max: Fury Road, Happy Feet Two  
 Bernhard Henrich — Bridge of Spies, Unfinished Business  
 Kalina Ivanov — Max, Little Miss Sunshine  
 Michael Anthony Jackson — Gods of Egypt, Fantastic Four  
 Philip Keller — Jurassic World, The Last Witch Hunter  
 Carolyn A. Loucks — Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, RoboCop  
 Chris Lowe — Spectre, Into the Woods  
 Ina Mayhew — Barbershop: The Next Cut, Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds  
 Alice Normington — Suffragette, Nowhere Boy  
 Hamish Purdy — The Revenant, Step Up All In  
 Peter Ramsey\* — Penguins of Madagascar, Shrek the Third  
 Pilar Revuelta — Exodus: Gods and Kings, Pan’s Labyrinth  
 Mark Ricker —Trumbo, Get on Up  
 Dena Roth — The Wedding Ringer, Think Like a Man Too  
 David Schlesinger — True Story, Annie  
 Richard Sherman — The Gift, Beautiful Creatures  
 Michael Standish — The Danish Girl, Victor Frankenstein  
 Yohei Taneda — Monster Hunt, The Hateful Eight  
 Lisa Thompson — Mad Max: Fury Road, San Andreas  
 Patrice Vermette — Sicario, The Young Victoria  
 Frank Walsh — The Huntsman: Winter’s War, High-Rise


**Directors**  
 Lenny Abrahamson — Room, Frank  
 Naji Abu Nowar — Theeb  
 Maren Ade — Everyone Else, The Forest for the Trees  
 Lexi Alexander — Punisher: War Zone, Green Street Hooligans  
 Haifaa al-Mansour — Wadjda  
 Ana Lily Amirpour — A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night  
 Amma Asante — Belle, A Way of Life  
 Katie Aselton — Black Rock, The Freebie  
 Ramin Bahrani — 99 Homes, At Any Price  
 Anna Boden — Mississippi Grind, It’s Kind of a Funny Story  
 Catherine Breillat — The Sleeping Beauty, Sex Is Comedy  
 Israel Cárdenas — Sand Dollars, Carmita  
 Carlos Carrera — Backyard, El Crimen del Padre Amaro  
 Nuri Bilge Ceylan — Winter Sleep, Once upon a Time in Anatolia  
 Souleymane Cissé — Brightness, The Wind  
 Isabel Coixet — Learning to Drive, Elegy  
 Ryan Coogler\* — Creed, Fruitvale Station  
 Scott Cooper — Black Mass, Crazy Heart  
 John Crowley — Brooklyn, Closed Circuit  
 Julie Dash — Daughters of the Dust  
 Tamra Davis — Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, Billy Madison  
 Jonathan Dayton — Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine  
 Dominique Deruddere — Flying Home, Everybody Famous!  
 Xavier Dolan — Mommy, Tom at the Farm  
 Cheryl Dunye — My Baby’s Daddy, The Watermelon Woman  
 Deniz Gamze Ergüven — Mustang  
 Valerie Faris — Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine  
 Shana Feste — Endless Love, Country Strong  
 Hannah Fidell — A Teacher  
 Anne Fletcher — The Proposal, Step Up  
 Ari Folman — The Congress, Waltz with Bashir  
 Anne Fontaine — Gemma Bovery, Coco before Chanel  
 Cary Joji Fukunaga — Beasts of No Nation, Jane Eyre  
 Nicole Garcia — A View of Love, Charlie Says  
 Juan Antonio Garcia Bayona — The Impossible, The Orphanage  
 Sarah Gavron — Suffragette, Brick Lane  
 Lesli Linka Glatter — The Proposition, Now and Then  
 Ciro Guerra\* — Embrace of the Serpent, The Wind Journeys  
 Laura Amelia Guzmán — Sand Dollars, Carmita  
 Sanaa Hamri — Just Wright, Something New  
 Mia Hansen-Løve\* — Eden, The Father of My Children  
 Mahamet-Saleh Haroun — Grigris, Our Father  
 Mary Harron — The Notorious Bettie Page, American Psycho  
 Marielle Heller\* — The Diary of a Teenage Girl  
 Albert Hughes — The Book of Eli, Dead Presidents  
 Hou Hsiao-Hsien — The Assassin, Three Times  
 Patty Jenkins — Wonder Woman, Monster  
 Naomi Kawase\* — Still the Water, The Mourning Forest  
 Abdellatif Kechiche — Blue Is the Warmest Color, Black Venus  
 Abbas Kiarostami — Certified Copy, Taste of Cherry  
 So Yong Kim — For Ellen, In Between Days  
 Kiyoshi Kurosawa — Seventh Code, Pulse  
 Karyn Kusama — Jennifer’s Body, Girlfight  
 Francis H. Lawrence — The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, I Am Legend  
 Tobias Lindholm\* — A War, A Hijacking  
 Phyllida Lloyd — The Iron Lady, Mamma Mia!  
 Ken Loach — The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Kes  
 Julia Loktev — The Loneliest Planet, Day Night Day Night  
 Ami Canaan Mann — Jackie & Ryan, Texas Killing Fields  
 Lucrecia Martel — The Headless Woman, The Holy Girl  
 Adam McKay\* — The Big Short, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy  
 Deepa Mehta — Midnight’s Children, Water  
 Ursula Meier — Sister, Home  
 Rebecca Miller\* — The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Personal Velocity  
 Karen Moncrieff — The Dead Girl, Blue Car  
 Cristian Mungiu\* — Graduation, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days  
 Anna Muylaert — The Second Mother  
 László Nemes\* — Son of Saul  
 María Novaro — The Good Herbs, Lola  
 Victor Nunez — Spoken Word, Ulee’s Gold  
 Euzhan Palcy — Siméon, A Dry White Season  
 Park Chan-wook\* — Stoker, Oldboy  
 Lucía Puenzo — The German Doctor, El Niño Pez  
 Lynne Ramsay — We Need to Talk about Kevin, Morvern Callar  
 Dee Rees — Pariah  
 Nicolas Winding Refn — Only God Forgives, Drive  
 Patricia Riggen — The 33, Girl in Progress  
 Gillian Robespierre — Obvious Child  
 Patricia Rozema — Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, Mansfield Park  
 Marjane Satrapi — The Voices, Persepolis  
 Sam Taylor-Johnson — Fifty Shades of Grey, Nowhere Boy  
 George Tillman, Jr. — Notorious, Soul Food  
 Luis Valdez — La Bamba, Zoot Suit  
 Melvin Van Peebles — Identity Crisis, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song  
 Margarethe von Trotta — Rosenstrasse, Marianne and Juliane  
 Lana Wachowski — Cloud Atlas, The Matrix Trilogy  
 Lilly Wachowski — Cloud Atlas, The Matrix Trilogy  
 Taika Waititi — Hunt for the Wilderpeople, What We Do in the Shadows  
 James Wan — The Conjuring, Saw  
 Keenan Ivory Wayans\* — Scary Movie, A Low Down Dirty Shame  
 Apichatpong Weerasethakul — Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Tropical Malady


**Documentary**  
 Joslyn Barnes — The House I Live In, Trouble the Water  
 Danielle Renfrew Behrens — Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, The Queen of Versailles  
 Joe Bini\* — Tales of the Grim Sleeper, Encounters at the End of the World  
 Douglas Blush — The Hunting Ground, The Invisible War  
 Rachel Boynton — Big Men, Our Brand Is Crisis  
 Irene Taylor Brodsky — The Final Inch, Hear and Now  
 Margaret Brown — The Great Invisible, The Order of Myths  
 Nancy Buirski — Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq, The Loving Story  
 Maro Chermayeff — Marina Abramovic The Artist Is Present, The Kindness of Strangers  
 Ramona S. Diaz — Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Imelda  
 James Gay-Rees — Amy, Senna  
 Haile Gerima — Teza, Ashes and Embers  
 Laurens Grant — The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Freedom Riders  
 Richard Hankin — Art and Craft, God Loves Uganda  
 Kazuo Hara — A Dedicated Life, The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On  
 Thomas Allen Harris — Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People, Twelve  
 Disciples of Nelson Mandela  
 Matthew Heineman — Cartel Land, Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare  
 Judith Helfand — The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement, Blue Vinyl  
 Amy Hobby — What Happened, Miss Simone?, Shepard & Dark  
 Kirsten Johnson\* — Cameraperson, CitizenFour  
 Asif Kapadia — Amy, Senna  
 Aviva Kempner — Rosenwald, The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg  
 Pedro Kos\* — The Square, Waste Land  
 Victor Kossakovsky — Vivan las Antipodas!, The Belovs  
 Anita Lee — Stories We Tell, Everybody’s Children  
 Shola Lynch — Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, Chisholm ’72 — Unbought & Unbossed  
 Louis Massiah — W.E.B. Dubois: A Biography in Four Voices  
 Amanda Micheli — La Corona, Double Dare  
 Spencer Nakasako — Refugee, A.K.A. Don Bonus  
 Emiko Omori — Rabbit in the Moon, Regret to Inform  
 Joshua Oppenheimer — The Look of Silence, The Act of Killing  
 Dawn Porter — Trapped, Gideon’s Army  
 Gini Reticker — Pray the Devil Back to Hell, Asylum  
 Azin Samari\* — Ethel, The September Issue  
 Jessica Sanders — After Innocence, Sing!  
 Regina Scully — The Hunting Ground, Alive Inside  
 Signe Byrge Sørensen — The Look of Silence, The Act of Killing  
 David Teague — Cutie and the Boxer, Freeheld  
 Trinh T. Minh-ha — Forgetting Vietnam, Surname Viet Given Name Nam  
 Jean Tsien — Shut Up & Sing, Scottsboro: An American Tragedy  
 Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi — Meru, Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love  
 Wang Bing — Three Sisters, West of the Tracks


**Executives**  
 Pam Abdy  
 Courtney D. Armstrong  
 Arturo Barquet  
 Arianna Bocco  
 Nicole Brown  
 Rona Cosgrove  
 Craig Dehmel  
 Zanne Devine  
 Lisa Ellzey  
 Monique Esclavissat  
 Pauline Fischer  
 DeVon Franklin  
 David W. Greenbaum  
 Matthew Greenfield  
 Erica Huggins  
 Peter Kujawski  
 Pamela Kunath  
 Christine Langan  
 Bonni Lee  
 James F. Lopez  
 Xavier Marchand  
 Anikah Elizabeth McLaren  
 James Rupert Jacob Murdoch  
 Lachlan K. Murdoch  
 Gigi Pritzker  
 Josh Sapan  
 Scott Shooman  
 Adrian Smith  
 Frank H. Smith  
 Darren Dennis Throop  
 Jason D. Young

**Film Editors**  
 Niels Pagh Andersen — The Look of Silence, The Act of Killing  
 Joe Bini\* — We Need to Talk about Kevin, Cave of Forgotten Dreams  
 Bettina Böhler — Phoenix, Barbara  
 Pernille Bech Christensen — The Salvation, In a Better World  
 Raúl Antonio Dávalos — The Amateurs, Meet Wally Sparks  
 Marie-Hélène Dozo — Two Days, One Night, L’Enfant  
 Amy E. Duddleston — Elegy, Laurel Canyon  
 Suzy Elmiger — Lola Versus, Mighty Fine  
 Sim Evan-Jones — Shaun the Sheep Movie, Shrek  
 Sarah Flack — Away We Go, Lost in Translation  
 Affonso Gonçalves — Carol, Winter’s Bone  
 Matthew Hamachek — Cartel Land, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front  
 Chris King — Amy, Exit through the Gift Shop  
 Pedro Kos\* — The Square, Waste Land  
 Sylvie Landra — Catwoman, The Fifth Element  
 Tom McArdle — Spotlight, The Station Agent  
 Adam Nielsen — A War, A Hijacking  
 Kevin Nolting — Inside Out, Up  
 Nathan Nugent — Room, Frank  
 Stan Salfas — Morning, Let Me In  
 Azin Samari\* — Ethel, The September Issue  
 Margaret Sixel — Mad Max: Fury Road, Happy Feet  
 Mary Stephen — Blind Mountain, A Tale of Winter  
 Troy Takaki — Baggage Claim, The Bounty Hunter  
 Camilla Toniolo — His Way, Company Man  
 Bernat Vilaplana — Crimson Peak, Pan’s Labyrinth  
 Pax Wassermann — Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer  
 Julia Wong — Hercules, Extract  
 Mark Yoshikawa — The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2), The Tree of Life


**Makeup Artists and Hairstylists**  
 Karen Asano-Myers — Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 42  
 Pierce Austin — Concussion, After Earth  
 Julie Dartnell — The Grand Budapest Hotel, Les Misérables  
 Beatrice De Alba — Away We Go, Frida  
 Dave Elsey — Mr. Holmes, The Wolfman  
 Camille Friend — The Hateful Eight, Django Unchained  
 Anita Gibson — Beyond the Lights, Top Five  
 Giorgio Gregorini — The Impossible, Apocalypto  
 Siân Grigg — The Revenant, Ex Machina  
 Norma Hill-Patton — X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Company You Keep  
 Duncan Jarman — The Revenant, Rush  
 Love Larson — The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, The Girl Who Played with  
 Fire  
 Angela Levin — Cake, Horrible Bosses  
 Ivana Primorac — Anna Karenina, The Reader  
 Beverly Jo Pryor — Straight Outta Compton, Selma  
 Jan Sewell — The Danish Girl, The Theory of Everything  
 Maurizio Silvi — The Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge  
 Heba Thorisdottir — The Hateful Eight, Bridesmaids  
 Lesley Vanderwalt — Mad Max: Fury Road, The Great Gatsby  
 Eva von Bahr — The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo


**Music**  
 Lesley Barber — The Moth Diaries, Los Locos  
 Wendy Blackstone — Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger, To Be Heard  
 Mary J. Blige — The Help, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire  
 Kathryn Bostic — Dear White People, The New Black  
 Carl Davis — The Understudy, Scandal  
 Joseph S. DeBeasi — The Revenant, Sicario  
 Joanie Diener — Merchants of Doubt, The Skulls  
 Fitzgerald Diggs (RZA) — Django Unchained, The Man with the Iron Fists  
 Germaine Franco — Dope, Mr. and Mrs. Smith  
 Sia Furler — Zootopia, Fifty Shades of Grey  
 Peter Golub — Audrey, Countdown to Zero  
 Amanda Goodpaster — Pitch Perfect 2, Diary of a Wimpy Kid  
 Tanya Noel Hill — Ant-Man, Chef  
 Deborah Lurie — Safe Haven, Dear John  
 Heather McIntosh — Z for Zachariah, Honeymoon  
 Marcus Miller — About Last Night, Deliver Us from Eva  
 Antonio Pinto — Amy, Senna  
 Raphael Saadiq — Epic, Love and Basketball  
 Jim Schultz — Black Mass, Inglourious Basterds  
 Del Spiva — Fury, Prometheus  
 Taura Stinson — Rio 2, Black Nativity  
 Joseph Trapanese — Straight Outta Compton, Nightcrawler  
 Shigeru Umebayashi — The Grandmaster, 2046  
 Fernando Velázquez — Crimson Peak, Mama  
 Will.i.am — The Great Gatsby, Rio  
 Marcelo Zarvos — Rock the Kasbah, The Beaver


**Producers**  
 Belén Atienza — Out of the Dark, The Impossible  
 Amy Baer — A Storm in the Stars, Last Vegas  
 David Barron — Cinderella, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Parts 1 and 2)  
 Ram Bergman — Don Jon, Looper  
 Virginie Besson-Silla — Lucy, The Lady  
 Fernando Bovaira — Biutiful, The Sea Inside  
 Anne Carey — Mr. Holmes, The Savages  
 Debra Martin Chase — Sparkle, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants  
 Bonnie Curtis — Albert Nobbs, Minority Report  
 Susan Downey — The Judge, Sherlock Holmes  
 Ed Guiney — Room, Frank  
 Paul E. Hall — Peeples, For Colored Girls  
 Rachael Horovitz — Maggie’s Plan, Moneyball  
 Mark Huffam — The Martian, Exodus: Gods and Kings  
 Elizabeth Karlsen — Carol, Made in Dagenham  
 Gail Katz — Pawn Sacrifice, The Perfect Storm  
 Amy Kaufman — Beasts of No Nation, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints  
 Neil Kopp — Green Room, Wendy and Lucy  
 Kristie Macosko Krieger — Bridge of Spies, Lincoln  
 David Lancaster — Eye in the Sky, Whiplash  
 Albert Lee — Chinese Zodiac, Let the Bullets Fly  
 Roy Lee — The Lego Movie, Abduction  
 Mynette Louie — Land Ho!, Cold Comes the Night  
 Daniela Taplin Lundberg — Beasts of No Nation, The Kids Are All Right  
 Lori McCreary — The Magic of Belle Isle, Invictus  
 Edward L. McDonnell — Sicario, Insomnia  
 Jamie Patricof — Mississippi Grind, Blue Valentine  
 Amanda Posey — Brooklyn, An Education  
 Heather Rae — The Dry Land, Frozen River  
 Alexander Rodnyansky — Leviathan, Stalingrad  
 Esther García Rodríguez — Wild Tales, The Skin I Live In  
 Anish Savjani — Green Room, Meek’s Cutoff  
 Allison Shearmur — Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Cinderella  
 Michael Sugar — Spotlight, The Fifth Estate  
 Robert Teitel — Barbershop: The Next Cut, Men of Honor  
 Rodrigo Teixeira — The Witch, Mistress America  
 Nina Yang Bongiovi — Dope, Fruitvale Station


**Public Relations**  
 Michael S. Agulnek  
 Marina Bailey  
 Jacqueline L. Bazan  
 Stephen D. Bruno  
 Cassandra O. Butcher  
 Zachary Eller  
 Linda Guerrero  
 Barry Dale Johnson  
 Kate Lee  
 Amy Mastriona  
 R.J. Millard  
 Kelly Bush Novak  
 Fumiko Kitahara Otto  
 Jack Pan  
 Terra Potts  
 Arnold Robinson  
 David Stern  
 Lisa Taback  
 Jean-Pierre Vincent  
 David S. Waldman  
 Ryan Werner  
 Katherine Willing

**Short Films and Feature Animation**  
 Alê Abreu — Boy and the World, Cosmic Boy  
 Line K. Andersen — The Croods, Monsters vs Aliens  
 Bruce Anderson — Rio 2, Rio  
 Graham Annable — The Boxtrolls, ParaNorman  
 Guillaume Aretos — Puss in Boots, Shrek the Third  
 Serena Armitage — Stutterer, Scorned  
 Sanjay Bakshi — The Good Dinosaur, Monsters University  
 Maxwell Boas — Kung Fu Panda 3, Rise of the Guardians  
 Lydia Bottegoni — Hotel Transylvania, Surf’s Up  
 Rebecca Wilson Bresee — Zootopia, Frozen  
 Mark Burton — Shaun the Sheep Movie, Gnomeo & Juliet  
 Chris Butler — ParaNorman, Coraline  
 Clément Calvet — Cafard, Song of the Sea  
 Tom Cardone — Rio 2, Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!  
 Marci Carlin — The Soul of Nashville, Human Destiny  
 Galen Tan Chu — Epic, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs  
 Benjamin Cleary — Love Is a Sting, Stutterer  
 Pam Coats — Gnomeo & Juliet, Mulan  
 Melissa Beth Cobb — Kung Fu Panda 3, Kung Fu Panda 2  
 Deborah Cook — The Boxtrolls, ParaNorman  
 Jamie Oliver Donoughue — Shok, Life on the Line  
 Renato Dos Anjos — Wreck-It Ralph, Bolt  
 Jeff Draheim — Frozen, The Princess and the Frog  
 Karen Dufilho — Duet, For the Birds  
 Pato Escala — Bear Story  
 Katie Fico — Zootopia, Feast  
 Michael Fong — Inside Out, Toy Story 3  
 Lori Forte — Epic, Ice Age Continental Drift  
 Oorlagh George — The Shore  
 Jonathan Gibbs — Turbo, The Croods  
 Steven Goldberg — Frozen, Tangled  
 Judith Gruber-Stitzer — Wild Life, When the Day Breaks  
 Jorge R. Gutierrez — The Book of Life, Carmelo  
 Jane Hartwell — The Croods, Madagascar  
 Georgina Hayns — The Boxtrolls, ParaNorman  
 Janet Healy — Minions, Despicable Me 2  
 Tang K. Heng — Kung Fu Panda 2, Kung Fu Panda  
 Jon W.S. Huertas — The Box, Lone  
 Raman Hui — Monster Hunt, Shrek the Third  
 Claire Jennings — Coraline, Father and Daughter  
 Yong Duk Jhun — The Croods, Shrek Forever After  
 Sahim Omar Kalifa — Bad Hunter, Baghdad Messi  
 Scott Kersavage — Zootopia, Wreck-It Ralph  
 Basil Khalil — Ave Maria, Shooter  
 Michael Knapp — Epic, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs  
 Robert Kondo — The Dam Keeper, La Luna  
 Shawn Krause — Inside Out, Cars 2  
 Max Lang — Room on the Broom, The Gruffalo  
 Nicolas Marlet — Kung Fu Panda 3, How to Train Your Dragon 2  
 Steve Martino — The Peanuts Movie, Ice Age Continental Drift  
 Dale Mayeda — Planes: Fire & Rescue, Frozen  
 Brian McLean — The Boxtrolls, ParaNorman  
 Mike Mitchell — Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Shrek Forever After  
 Joe Moshier — Penguins of Madagascar, How to Train Your Dragon 2  
 James Ford Murphy — Lava, Cars  
 Kiel Murray — Up, Cars  
 Yoshiaki Nishimura — When Marnie Was There, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya  
 Kyle Odermatt — Big Hero 6, Paperman  
 Linda Campos Olszewski — Car-Ma’, A Bad Hair Day  
 Gabriel Osorio — Bear Story, Residuos  
 Sanjay Patel — Sanjay’s Super Team, Tokyo Mater  
 Martin Pope — Room on the Broom, Chico & Rita  
 Christian Potalivo — The New Tenants, The Pig  
 Tina Price — Dinosaur, Fantasia/2000  
 Peter Ramsey\* — Rise of the Guardians, Monsters vs Aliens  
 Denise Ream — The Good Dinosaur, Cars 2  
 Julie Roy — Carface, Kali the Little Vampire  
 Damon Russell — Curfew, Brink  
 William Salazar — Kung Fu Panda 3, Monsters vs Aliens  
 Scott Santoro — Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Flushed Away  
 Katherine Sarafian — Brave, Lifted  
 Kent Seki — Rocky and Bullwinkle, Megamind  
 Osnat Shurer — One Man Band, Boundin’  
 Mireille Soria — Home, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted  
 Richard Starzak — Shaun the Sheep Movie, A Matter of Loaf and Death  
 Michael D. Surrey — The Princess and the Frog, The Lion King  
 Galyn Susman — Ratatouille, Toy Story 2  
 Imogen Sutton — Prologue, The Thief and the Cobbler  
 Dice Tsutsumi — The Dam Keeper, Monsters University  
 Nora Twomey — Song of the Sea, The Secret of Kells  
 Pablo Valle — How to Train Your Dragon 2, Turbo  
 Michael Venturini — The Good Dinosaur, Toy Story 3  
 Pierre-Olivier Vincent — How to Train Your Dragon 2, How to Train Your Dragon  
 Patrick Vollrath — Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut), The Jacket (Die Jacke)  
 Dan Wagner — Kung Fu Panda 3, Kung Fu Panda 2  
 Koji Yamamura — Muybridge’s Strings, Mt. Head  
 Hiromasa Yonebayashi — When Marnie Was There, The Secret World of Arrietty  
 Raymond Zibach — Kung Fu Panda 3, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas


**Sound**  
 Pud Cusack — Free State of Jones, The Mask of Zorro  
 Susan Dawes — Deadpool, Wild  
 Chris Duesterdiek — The Revenant, Elysium  
 Tammy Fearing — Trainwreck, Bridesmaids  
 Roberto Fernandez — St. Vincent, Drive  
 Eric Flickinger — The Big Short, World War Z  
 Gabriel Gutiérrez — Automata, Mama  
 Matthew Harrison — Paper Towns, The Maze Runner  
 Nina Hartstone — The Book Thief, Gravity  
 Michael Hertlein — The Hateful Eight, American Hustle  
 Paul Hsu — Spotlight, Salt  
 George Lara — Chi-Raq, Spotlight  
 Anna MacKenzie — Spectre, Prometheus  
 John G. Marquis — Godzilla, Beautiful Creatures  
 James Harley Mather — Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, Sherlock Holmes  
 Chuck Michael — Mad Max: Fury Road, X-Men: Days of Future Past  
 Timothy Karl Nielsen — Racing Extinction, War Horse  
 Eric Norris — Unbroken, Man of Steel  
 Ben Osmo — Mad Max: Fury Road, Happy Feet Two  
 Eliza Paley — Miles Ahead, Carol  
 Glenfield Payne — Beasts of No Nation, Blue Jasmine  
 Michele Perrone — The Revenant, Straight Outta Compton  
 Lisa Pinero — Steve Jobs, Fury  
 Mac Ruth — The Martian, World War Z  
 Christopher Scarabosio — Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Grand Budapest Hotel  
 Paul P. Soucek — Fright Night, Michael Clayton  
 Nancy Nugent Title — Spy, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes  
 Richard Toenes — Iron Man 3, Warrior  
 Todd Toon — The Revenant, The Princess and the Frog  
 Bernard Weiser — American Hustle, The Hurt Locker  
 David White — Mad Max: Fury Road, The Railway Man  
 Byron Wilson — Black Mass, True Grit  
 Matthew R. Wood — Star Wars: The Force Awakens, WALL-E  
 Tamás Zányi — Son of Saul, Delta


**Visual Effects**  
 Kevin Baillie — The Walk, Transformers: Age of Extinction  
 Sara Bennett — Ex Machina, Hercules  
 Theo Bialek — The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Smurfs 2  
 Richard Bluff — The Big Short, Unbroken  
 Steve Cremin — Hail, Caesar!, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2)  
 Lindy Wilson De Quattro — Pacific Rim, Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol  
 Adrian de Wet — The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire  
 Matt Dessero — Jupiter Ascending, Divergent  
 Deak Ferrand — By the Sea, Lucy  
 Ronald Frankel — Gods of Egypt, Riddick  
 John Gibson — X-Men: Days of Future Past, Snow White and the Huntsman  
 Martin Hill — The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2, Furious Seven  
 Bruce L. Holcomb — Ant-Man, Avengers: Age of Ultron  
 Andrew Jackson — Mad Max: Fury Road, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies  
 Matthew Jacobs — Gods of Egypt, Deliver Us from Evil  
 Anders Langlands — The Martian, X-Men: Days of Future Past  
 Seth Maury — Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, Maleficent  
 Rich McBride — The Revenant, Gravity  
 Kelvin McIlwain — Furious Seven, Snow White and the Huntsman  
 Paul Norris — Ex Machina, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation  
 Dan Oliver — Gods of Egypt, Mad Max: Fury Road  
 Edward M. Pasquarello — Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, Tomorrowland  
 Betsy Paterson — The Hunger Games, The Incredible Hulk  
 Matthew Shumway — The Revenant, Life of Pi  
 Jason Smith — The Revenant, Super 8  
 Kevin Andrew Smith — Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Krampus  
 Simone Kraus Townsend — Ant-Man, Avengers: Age of Ultron  
 Stefano Trivelli — Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Pan  
 Adam Valdez — Maleficent, World War Z  
 David Vickery — Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, Fast & Furious 6  
 Steven Warner — The Brothers Grimsby, The Martian  
 Andrew Whitehurst — Ex Machina, Paddington  
 Andy Williams — Mad Max: Fury Road, Fury  
 Tom Wood — Mad Max: Fury Road, The Last Witch Hunter


**Writers**  
 Jonathan Aibel — Kung Fu Panda series, Monsters vs Aliens  
 Sherman Alexie — The Business of Fancydancing, Smoke Signals  
 Glenn Berger — Kung Fu Panda series, Monsters vs Aliens  
 Andrea Berloff — Straight Outta Compton, World Trade Center  
 Vera Blasi — Tortilla Soup, Woman on Top  
 Ryan Coogler\* — Creed, Fruitvale Station  
 Destin Daniel Cretton — Short Term 12, I Am Not a Hipster  
 Emma Donoghue — Room  
 Tina Fey — Mean Girls  
 Efthimis Filippou — The Lobster, Dogtooth  
 Jennifer Flackett-Levin — Little Manhattan, Wimbledon  
 Ryan Fleck — Mississippi Grind, Half Nelson  
 Alex Garland — Ex Machina, 28 Days Later  
 Drew Goddard — The Martian, Cloverfield  
 Ciro Guerra\* — Embrace of the Serpent, The Wind Journeys  
 Mia Hansen-Løve\* — Eden, The Father of My Children  
 Marielle Heller\* — The Diary of a Teenage Girl  
 David Henry Hwang — Possession, Golden Gate  
 O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson\* — The Players Club, Friday  
 Jia Zhangke — Mountains May Depart, Still Life  
 Miranda July — The Future, Me and You and Everyone We Know  
 Laeta Kalogridis — Terminator Genisys, Shutter Island  
 Naomi Kawase\* — Still the Water, Firefly  
 Richard Kelly — Domino, Donnie Darko  
 Takeshi Kitano — Outrage, Kikujiro  
 Hirokazu Koreeda — “Like Father, Like Son, Nobody Knows  
 Yorgos Lanthimos — The Lobster, Dogtooth  
 Lee Chang-dong — Poetry, Oasis  
 Sebastián Lelio — Gloria, Navidad  
 Mark Levin — Journey to the Center of the Earth, Nim’s Island  
 Tobias Lindholm\* — A War, The Hunt  
 Adam McKay\* — The Big Short, The Other Guys  
 Rebecca Miller\* — Maggie’s Plan, The Ballad of Jack and Rose  
 Abi Morgan — Suffragette, The Iron Lady  
 Cristian Mungiu\* — Beyond the Hills, Occident  
 Phyllis Nagy — Carol  
 László Nemes\* — Son of Saul  
 Park Chan-wook\* — Thirst, Oldboy  
 Charles Randolph — The Big Short, The Life of David Gale  
 Carlos Reygadas — Silent Light, Battle in Heaven  
 Clara Royer — Son of Saul  
 Misan Sagay — Belle, The Secret Laughter of Women  
 Lorene Scafaria — The Meddler, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist  
 Josh Singer — Spotlight, The Fifth Estate  
 Keenan Ivory Wayans\* — White Chicks, A Low Down Dirty Shame  
 Alice Winocour — Mustang, Home


**Members-at-Large**  
 Tina Anderson  
 M. James Arnett  
 Dana Belcastro  
 Schawn Belston  
 Katherine Beyda  
 Lynwen Brennan  
 Camille Cellucci  
 Annie Chang  
 Yolanda T. Cochran  
 Gary Combs  
 Jenny Fulle  
 Theodore E. Gluck  
 Hal H. Haenel  
 Ramzi Haidamus  
 Eunice Huthart  
 Jeff Imada  
 Stephanie A. Ito  
 Mike Knobloch  
 Ravi D. Mehta  
 Sunny Park  
 Manny Perry  
 Ana Maria Quintana  
 Nancy St. John  
 Philip Steuer  
 Keith Woulard  
 Susan Zwerman

**Associates**  
 Adriana Alberghetti  
 Michelle Bohan  
 David Bugliari  
 John Campisi  
 Esther Chang  
 Maha Dakhil  
 David DeCamillo  
 Jerome Duboz  
 Helen du Toit  
 Jeff Gorin  
 Julie Huntsinger  
 Tracey R. Jacobs  
 Adam J. Kanter  
 Craig Kestel  
 Franklin Leonard  
 Betsy A. McLane  
 Cameron Mitchell  
 Andrea Nelson Meigs  
 Emanuel Nunez  
 Joanelle Romero  
 Rena Ronson  
 Lara Sackett  
 Carin Sage  
 Phillip Sun  
 Joanne Roberts Wiles  
 Warren Zavala

\*Eighteen individuals have been invited to join the academy by multiple branches and will have to select one branch upon accepting membership.

_This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/29/oscars-academy-invites-683-new-members) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://ew.com)

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