Every summer, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invites a deluge of new members to join its ranks. Since #OscarsSoWhite back in 2015, the Academy has moved away from its elitist tendencies and toward embracing younger and more diverse artists and executives from all over the world. This year’s invited class is no exception.
If the invitees all accept Academy membership, the total members will number 10,910 and voting members 9,934. And with the addition of the 2024 members, 35 percent of Academy members identify as women, 20 percent of Academy members are from underrepresented ethnic and racial communities, and 20 percent of Academy members are from countries or territories outside the U.S.
As usual, a slew of Oscar nominees and winners are gaining admittance to the club (71 Oscar nominees and 19 winners), including actors Lily Gladstone (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall,” “The Zone of Interest”), and Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“The Holdovers”), costume designer Holly Waddington (“Poor Things”), writer-directors İlker Çatak (“The Teachers’ Lounge”), Cord Jefferson (“American Fiction”), Celine Song (“Past Lives”), and Justine Triet (“Anatomy of a Fall”), producers Ben LeClair (“American Fiction”) and Tom Ackerley (“Barbie”), documentarians Moses Bwayo (“Bobi Wine: The People’s President”), Mstyslav Chernov (“20 Days in Mariupol”), Nisha Pahuja (“To Kill a Tiger”) and .
