奥斯卡邀请新成员投票

A staggering 842 film industry voices — including 50 percent women and 29 percent people of color — have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the prestigious Hollywood organization that votes annually to determine Oscar winners.

Hailing from 59 countries around the world, the new invitees for 2019 include Oscar-winning “A Star Is Born” actress-songwriter Lady Gaga, “Spider-Man: Far From Home” headliner Tom Holland, “The Crown”’s Claire Foy, “A Mighty Heart” star Archie Panjabi, “Crazy Rich Asians” Gemma Chan (as well as that movie’s director, Jon M. Chu), “Black Panther”’s Sterling K. Brown, Winston Duke (“Us”), “Roma”’s Marina de Tavira (who received her first Oscar nod earlier this year), “The Babadook” director Jennifer Kent, “Late Night” helmer Nisha Ganatra, actress-filmmaker Mélanie Laurent, as well as several women representing technical branches like cinematography (Carolina Costa), editing (Anne McCabe), and writing (Gillian Flynn, Marti Noxon, Desiree Akhavan, Kay Cannon).

This year’s class, which also saw 10 branches invite more women than men, increases the Academy’s overall female membership to 32 percent — a 7 percent increase since 2015. Across the same frame, that number jumps from 8 percent to 16 percent for people of color.

Last year, the Academy invited a record 928 new members, while it asked 774 industry professionals to join in 2017. If all of this year’s invitees welcome their invitations (all parties must formally accept their requests to join before becoming official members), the Academy’s membership tally will stand near 10,000.

(SD-Agencies)