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Oscars Break Record with 774 New Member Invites, Including Jordan Peele & Gal Gadot
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences continues to make strides to diversify its membership, and 2017’s invites to film professionals to join the Academy surpasses last year’s record with a whopping 774 potential new members. Ever since the #OscarsSoWhite fiasco, outgoing Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs has taken serious strides to invite a more dynamic range of professionals to join the Academy and vote in the Oscars. Just a couple years of this resulted, in my estimation, in some serious surprises at this past Oscars where every prognosticator’s ballot died a firey death. Long-held traditions and bellwethers fell as the Academy members seemed to be voting more from the heart rather than following the same old pattern.
From 2015 to 2017 alone there has been a 359% increase in women invited to join the Academy and a 331% increase in people of color, and this year’s new class is 39% female and 30% persons of color. Seven branches invited more women than men, including the actors, executives, and film editors...
I like how they tout this 774 number even though that also includes even more white people. Also, these were Academy membership stats in 2012:
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Wikipedia
According to a February 2012 study conducted by the Los Angeles Times (sampling over 5,000 of its 5,765 members), the Academy at that time was 94% white, 77% male, 86% age 50 or older, and had a median age of 62. A third of members were previous winners or nominees of Academy Awards themselves. Of the academy's 43-member board of governors, only six were female; Cheryl Boone Isaacs was the sole person of color on the board.[31]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences continues to make strides to diversify its membership, and 2017’s invites to film professionals to join the Academy surpasses last year’s record with a whopping 774 potential new members. Ever since the #OscarsSoWhite fiasco, outgoing Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs has taken serious strides to invite a more dynamic range of professionals to join the Academy and vote in the Oscars. Just a couple years of this resulted, in my estimation, in some serious surprises at this past Oscars where every prognosticator’s ballot died a firey death. Long-held traditions and bellwethers fell as the Academy members seemed to be voting more from the heart rather than following the same old pattern.
From 2015 to 2017 alone there has been a 359% increase in women invited to join the Academy and a 331% increase in people of color, and this year’s new class is 39% female and 30% persons of color. Seven branches invited more women than men, including the actors, executives, and film editors...
I like how they tout this 774 number even though that also includes even more white people. Also, these were Academy membership stats in 2012:
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Wikipedia
According to a February 2012 study conducted by the Los Angeles Times (sampling over 5,000 of its 5,765 members), the Academy at that time was 94% white, 77% male, 86% age 50 or older, and had a median age of 62. A third of members were previous winners or nominees of Academy Awards themselves. Of the academy's 43-member board of governors, only six were female; Cheryl Boone Isaacs was the sole person of color on the board.[31]
