

Hugh Bonneville – “Downton Abbey,” “Paddington 2” Kingsley Ben-Adir – “One Night in Miami…,” “Noelle” Maria Bakalova – “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” “XIIa” Yahya Abdul-Mateen II – “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “Us” Oscar winners and nominees were considered without limitation by applicable branches. The Academy’s Board of Governors voted on branch-specific guidelines to be applied in determining this year’s new membership invitees.

Membership selection decisions are based on professional qualifications, with representation, inclusion and equity remaining a priority of Academy Aperture 2025.Įight individuals (noted by an asterisk) have been invited to join the Academy by multiple branches. These individuals must select one branch upon accepting membership. The dramatic slowdown in admitting new members was done to enable steady future growth and to ensure the necessary infrastructure, staff resources and environment to support all Academy members,” according to the AMPAS release. The number of new invitees, an exercise done only once each year, has been dramatically more than in half from last year’s class of 819, a number in line with the expansion of AMPAS membership put in place over the past five years in order to bring in more diversity and increase the numbers of women and underrepresented artists.

The new additions will bring the number of eligible Oscar voters up to somewhere in the neighborhood of 9,750, although that is not an exact number as all 395 must now accept the invites, and there has been some attrition due to deaths from last year’s AMPAS-supplied number of 9,362 eligible voters. How 'The Power Of The Dog' Writer-Director Jane Campion Explores "The Vulnerability, The Brutality, And The Fear" Of Toxic MasculinityĪlthough receiving an Oscar and/or a nomination is a big plus, it does not necessarily guarantee you entrance into the membership, but clearly this year the various branches took their cues from the most recent group of nominees who weren’t able to vote for themselves in April, but now are among the chosen.
