AMPAS Invites 928 New Members

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. @TheAcademy invites record 928 new members https://t.co/eIxP3aosDm pic.twitter.com/PVsdHd6mAV
- Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 25, 2018

• AMPAS has invited 928 new members this year, eclipising the 600+ and 700+ invites of the past two years.
• At the beginning of 2016, the Academy's 6,241 voting members were approximately 92 percent white and 75 percent

Comments

[babarsuhail]

how op didn't mention my good sis Tiffany Haddish being included is beyond me, especially when she is in the picture on the top of the article.

[scriptedending]

To be fair, it's a very long list. I just skimmed and picked a few big/notable names - I didn't want to spend too much time on it and then have it be rejected while someone else submitted it with less info. I'll add a few more people now, though.

[asterope]

with some of these people it's like how have they just been invited, but then there's some that are....Unnecessary

[babarsuhail]

Amy Schumer being the latter.

[asterope]

for sure lmao

[zazie_toujours]

yess new blood, and a lot of my favs! esp Michael K Williams jfc the soft spot i have for that man

[itsme_eloise]

MKW not being invited till now is embarrassing for the Academy, tbh. he's phenomenal.

[just444]

some of these are random af

[just444]

Emmanuelle Seigner - “Venus in Fur,” “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”

so the Polanski household is still getting screeners

[numbedtoe]

I think honestly they invited damn near every woman even remotely working in film, and every minority they could think of as well, to make the numbers look good. since there really are some on there that leave you shaking your head.

i saw the Seigner thing too and it felt like classic con man hollywood bullshit. a bait and switch. "Roman we're not mad at you, it's the times, it'll blow over. see, we're fine, we're inviting your wife to be a member!"

[buzzybhn]

Michel Gondry is just now in? Damn, bitch.

Some of these names though, legit embarrassing, lmao.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Happy for him but whooooooo it's laaaaaaaaate. He won back in 2005 :0!!!

[ms_mmelissa]

MTE.

I wonder if he's rejected membership and they just keep inviting him back because otherwise WTF. He's white, male, and a double Oscar winner. Makes no sense he wouldn't be a member unless he didn't want to.