TV Article Oscars: Academy invites 683 new members 41 percent of the invitees are people of color; 46 percent are women By Oliver Gettell Oliver Gettell Senior news editor, EW.com EW's editorial guidelines Published on June 29, 2016 09:02PM EDT Photo: Eamonn McCormack/Getty Images; John Lamparski/WireImage; Samir Hussein/WireImage 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 were nominated for Oscars (for the second year in a row). The controversy prompted the academy to drastically overhaul 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.