Film Academy Invites 683 New Members, Increasing Diversity1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSix months after announcing intentions to double the number of female and minority members in its ranks by 2020, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 683 new members to join the organization. The academy says its invitees are 46 percent female and 41 percent minority, and represent 59 countries.
Should all of the invitees accept, the new class would make the academy’s overall membership 27 percent female and 11 percent nonwhite, up from 25 percent and 8 percent respectively. Idris Elba, Chadwick Boseman, Eva Mendes, America Ferrera, and Anika Noni Rose are among the actors invited to membership. Other potential new members helping to increase the academy’s diversity include Chinese cinematographer Zhao Fei, Japanese production designer Yohei Taneda, Mexican director Patricia Riggen, and musicians such as Fitzgerald Diggs, who’s better known as RZA from Wu Tang Clan.
via: Elle
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