Academy extends 397 membership invitations, including Indian actors Kajol and Suriya

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that they have extended invitations to 397 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures, to join the organisation. The 2022 class is 44 per cent women, 37 per cent belong to underrepresented ethnic/racial communities, and 50 per cent are from 53 countries and territories outside the United States. 

Membership selection is based on professional qualifications, with an ongoing commitment to representation, inclusion and equity remaining a priority. There are 71 Oscar nominees, including 15 winners, among the invitees. Four individuals (noted by an asterisk) have been invited to join the Academy by multiple branches. These individuals must select one branch upon accepting membership.

Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2022. The list of invitees include:

Actors: 

Funke Akindele – Omo Ghetto: The Saga, Jenifa

Caitríona Balfe – Belfast, Ford v Ferrari

Reed Birney – Mass, Changeling

Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter, I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Lori Tan Chinn – Turning Red, Glengarry Glen Ross

Daniel K. Daniel – The Fugitive, A Soldier’s Story

Ariana DeBose – West Side Story, The Prom

Robin de Jesús – tick, tick…BOOM!, The Boys in the Band

Jamie Dornan – Belfast, Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar

Michael Greyeyes – Wild Indian, Woman Walks Ahead

Gaby Hoffmann – C’mon C’mon, Wild

Amir Jadidi – A Hero, Cold Sweat

Kajol – My Name Is Khan, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…

Troy Kotsur – CODA, The Number 23

Vincent Lindon – Titane, The Measure of a Man

BarBara Luna – The Concrete Jungle, Five Weeks in a Balloon

Aïssa Maïga – The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Mood Indigo

Selton Mello – My Hindu Friend, Trash

Olga Merediz – In the Heights, Adrift

Sandra Kwan Yue Ng – Echoes of the Rainbow, Portland Street Blues

Hidetoshi Nishijima – Drive My Car, Cut

Rena Owen – The Last Witch Hunter, The Dead Lands

Jesse Plemons – The Power of the Dog, Judas and the Black Messiah

Sheryl Lee Ralph – Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, The Distinguished Gentleman

Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World, Welcome to Norway

Marco Rodriguez – El Chicano, Unspeakable

Joanna Scanlan – After Love, Notes on a Scandal

Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog, Let Me In

Suriya – Jai Bhim, Soorarai Pottru

Anya Taylor-Joy – The Northman, Last Night in Soho

Casting Directors:

Rich Delia – King Richard, The Disaster Artist

Elodie Demey – Happening, Summer of 85

Yngvill Kolset Haga – The Worst Person in the World, One Night in Oslo

Louise Kiely – The Green Knight, Sing Street

Meagan Lewis – Blast Beat, Free State of Jones

Karen Lindsay-Stewart – Marie Antoinette, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Juliette Ménager – A Bag of Marbles, As Above/So Below

Kate Ringsell – The Lost City of Z, Justice League

Toby Whale – Dunkirk, The History Boys

Cinematographers:

Ava Berkofsky – The Sky Is Everywhere, Free in Deed

Josh Bleibtreu – Dark Phoenix, Shazam!

Alice Brooks – In the Heights, tick, tick…BOOM!

Daria D’Antonio – The Hand of God, Ricordi?

Mike Eley – The Duke, Woman Walks Ahead

Sturla Brandth Grøvlen – The Innocents, Another Round

Ruben Impens – Titane, Beautiful Boy

Shabier Kirchner – Small Axe, Bull

Martin Ruhe – The Tender Bar, The Midnight Sky

Kasper Tuxen – The Worst Person in the World, Riders of Justice

Costume Designers:

Joan Bergin – The Prestige, In the Name of the Father

Antonella Cannarozzi – A Five Star Life, I Am Love

Andrea Flesch – Midsommar, Colette

Lizzy Gardiner – Hacksaw Ridge, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Dorothée Guiraud – Murder Party, French Tech

Suzie Harman – The Personal History of David Copperfield, Extinction

Tatiana Hernández – The Japon, Lope

Louise Stjernsward – Made in Italy, The Mercy

Elisabeth Tavernier – The Man in the Basement, Tanguy Is Back

Paul Tazewell – West Side Story, Harriet

Mitchell Travers – The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Hustlers

Directors:

Newton Aduaka – One Man’s Show, Ezra

Andrew Ahn – Fire Island, Spa Night

Bruno Villela Barreto – Four Days in September, The Kiss

Mariano Barroso – Ants in the Mouth, Ecstasy

Rolf de Heer – Charlie’s Country, Bad Boy Bubby

Jeferson Rodrigues de Rezende – The Malê Revolt, Bróder!

*Pawo Choyning Dorji – Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

Blessing Egbe – African Messiah, Iquo’s Journal

Briar Grace-Smith – Cousins , Waru

Reinaldo Marcus Green – King Richard, Monsters and Men

*Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

*Sian Harries Heder – CODA, Tallulah

Gil Kenan – City of Ember, Monster House

Amanda Kernell – Charter, Sami Blood

Mary Lambert – The In Crowd, Pet Sematary II

Blackhorse Lowe – Chasing the Light, 5th World

Nalin Pan – Last Film Show, Samsara

Jonas Poher Rasmussen* – Flee, Searching for Bill

Isabel Sandoval – Lingua Franca, Apparition

Amy Seimetz – She Dies Tomorrow, Sun Don’t Shine

Rachel Talalay – A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting, Tank Girl

Documentary:

Julie Anderson – God Is the Bigger Elvis, Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World

Susan Bedusa – Procession, Bisbee ’17

Opal H. Bennett – A Broken House, Águilas

Shane Boris – Stray, The Edge of Democracy

Joe Cephus Brewster – American Promise, Slaying Goliath

Ellen Bruno – Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy, Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia

Traci A. Curry – Attica, Boss: The Black Experience in Business

Jason DaSilva – When We Walk, When I Walk

Emílio Domingos – Favela Is Fashion, L.A.P.A.

Sushmit Ghosh – Writing with Fire, Timbaktu

Lyn Goldfarb – Eddy’s World, With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade

Susanne Guggenberger – Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes, The Beekeeper and His Son

Cristina Ibarra – The Infiltrators, Las Marthas

Oren Jacoby – On Broadway, Sister Rose’s Passion

Isaac Julien – Derek, Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask

Deborah Kaufman – Company Town, Blacks and Jews

Firouzeh Khosrovani – Radiograph of a Family, Fest of Duty

Jessica Kingdon – Ascension, Commodity City

Mehret Mandefro – How It Feels to Be Free , Little White Lie

Mary Manhardt – Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl), Racing Dreams

Amanda McBaine – Boys State, The Overnighters

Peter Jay Miller – Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

Elizabeth Mirzaei – Three Songs for Benazir, Laila at the Bridge

Gulistan Mirzaei – Three Songs for Benazir, Laila at the Bridge

Bob Moore – Dope Is Death, China Heavyweight

Omar Mullick – Footprint, These Birds Walk

Mohammed Ali Naqvi – Insha’Allah Democracy, Among the Believers

Sierra Pettengill – Riotsville, USA, The Reagan Show

Ben Proudfoot – The Queen of Basketball, A Concerto Is a Conversation

*Jonas Poher Rasmussen – Flee, Searching for Bill

Gabriel Rhodes – The First Wave, Time

Lynne Sachs – Film about a Father Who, Investigation of a Flame

Brett Story – The Hottest August, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

Thorsten Thielow – The First Wave, Mayor Pete

Rintu Thomas – Writing with Fire, Dilli

Nathan Truesdell – Ascension, Balloonfest

Jenni Wolfson – Pray Away, One Child Nation

Jialing Zhang – In the Same Breath, One Child Nation

Executives:

Steve Asbell

Carole Baraton

Steven Bardwil

Jeff Blackburn

Liesl Copland

Kareem Daniel

Eva Diederix

Scott Foundas

Brenda Gilbert

Joshua Barnett Grode

Gene Yoonbum Kang

Jenny Marchick

Ori Joseph Marmur

Anna Marsh

Katherine Oliver

Joel Pearlman

Elizabeth Polk

Louie Provost

Amber Rasberry

Brian Robbins

Marc Schaberg

Ron Schwartz

Aditya Sood

Frederick Tsui

Dana Walden

Clifford Werber

Film Editors:

Geraud Brisson – CODA, Dark Hearts

Olivier Bugge Coutté – The Worst Person in the World, Thelma

Shannon Baker Davis – The Obituary of Tunde Johnson, The Photograph

Billy Fox – Dolemite Is My Name, Hustle & Flow

Myron Kerstein – tick, tick…BOOM!, Crazy Rich Asians

Jeremy Milton – Encanto, Zootopia

Úna Ní Dhonghaíle – Belfast, Stan & Ollie

Heike Parplies – Invisible Life, Toni Erdmann

Joshua L. Pearson – Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), What Happened, Miss Simone?

Peter Sciberras – The Power of the Dog, The King

Aljernon Tunsil – Attica, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

Azusa Yamazaki – Drive My Car, Asako I & II

Makeup Artists and Hairstylists:

Jacenda Burkett – King Richard, Concussion

Nana Fischer – Encounter, The Lost City of Z

Sean Flanigan – The Many Saints of Newark, The Irishman

Massimo Gattabrusi – Loving Pablo, Volver

Stephanie Ingram – The Eyes of Tammy Faye, It

Anna Carin Lock – House of Gucci, Borg/McEnroe

Heike Merker – The Matrix Resurrections, Anonymous

Stacey Morris – Coming 2 America, Dolemite Is My Name

Justin Raleigh – The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Army of the Dead

Kerrie Smith – Motherless Brooklyn, John Wick

Nadia Stacey – Cruella, The Favourite

Julia Vernon –  Cruella, Maleficent

Wakana Yoshihara – Belfast, Spencer

Marketing and Public Relations:

Dana Archer

Debra Birnbaum

Tatiana Detlofson

Bethan Anna Dixon

Britta Gampper

Jane Gibbs

Sheri Goldberg

Jonathan Helfgot

Jessica Kolstad

Cortney Lawson

Vivek Mathur

George Nicholis

Stephanie Sarah Northen

Jodie Magid Oriol

Gina Pence

Stephanie Dee Phillips

Chrissy Quesada

Stuart Robertson

Jerry Rojas

Evelyn Santana

Sohini Sengupta

Michelle Slavich

James Verdesoto

Katrina Wan

Glen Erin Wyatt

Music:

Billie Eilish Baird O’Connell – No Time to Die

Amie Doherty – Spirit Untamed, The High Note

Lili Haydn – Strip Down, Rise Up, Broken Kingdom

Leo Heiblum – Maria Full of Grace, Frida

Natalie Holt – Fever Dream, Journey’s End

Nathan Johnson – Nightmare Alley, Knives Out

Jacobo Lieberman – Maria Full of Grace, Frida

Ariel Rose Marx – Shiva Baby, Rebel Hearts

Hesham Nazih – The Guest, Born a King

Finneas O’Connell – No Time to Die

Dan Romer – Luca, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Nerida Tyson-Chew – H Is for Happiness, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

Producers:

Mariela Besuievsky – The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Secret in Their Eyes

Cale Boyter – Dune, Pacific Rim Uprising

Chad Burris – Collisions, Drunktown’s Finest

Damon D’Oliveira – The Grizzlies, Love Come Down

Luc Déry –  Gabrielle, Monsieur Lazhar

Michael Downey – Elvis Walks Home, Light Thereafter

Yaël Fogiel – Memoir of War, Latest News of the Cosmos

Cristina Gallego – Birds of Passage, Embrace of the Serpent

Laetitia Gonzales – Plot 35, Tournée

Pauline Gygax –  With the Wind, My Life as a Zucchini

Margot Hand –  Passing, Brittany Runs a Marathon

Jojo Hui –  Better Days, Dearest

Eva Jakobsen – Miss Viborg, Godless

Lucas Joaquin – Mayday, Love Is Strange

Lizette Jonjic – 12 Dares, Guerrilla

Thanassis Karathanos –  The Man Who Sold His Skin, Tulpan

Kim McCraw – Drunken Birds, Incendies

Sev Ohanian – Run, Searching

Christina Piovesan – The Nest, Amreeka

Natalie Qasabian – Run, All about Nina

Philippe Rousselet – CODA, Source Code

Sara Silveira – Good Manners, Vazante

James Stark – Prayers for the Stolen, Mystery Train

Riccardo Tozzi – La Nostra Vita, Don’t Move

Shih-Ching Tsou – Red Rocket, The Florida Project

Nadia Turincev –  The Insult, The Boss’s Daughter

Tim White – King Richard, Ingrid Goes West

Trevor White – King Richard, LBJ

Teruhisa Yamamoto – Drive My Car, Wife of a Spy

Olena Yershova – Brighton 4th, Volcano

Production Design:

François Audouy – Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Ford v Ferrari

Laura Ballinger Gardner – The Irishman, Joker

Chris Baugh – Steve Jobs, Argo

Ellen Brill – Being the Ricardos, Bombshell

Joanna Bush – La La Land, Life of Pi

Christina Cecili – Cyrano, A Quiet Place

John Coven – The Lion King, Logan

Carol Flaisher –  Wonder Woman 1984, Miss Sloane

Sandy Hamilton – tick, tick…BOOM!, Joker

Ellen Lampl – Spider-Man: No Way Home, Jurassic World

Enrico Latella – Tenet, All the Money in the World

Steven Lawrence – Death on the Nile, Cinderella

Melissa Levander – The Tender Bar, The High Note

Drew Petrotta – The Suicide Squad, Captain Marvel

Jean-Vincent Puzos – Jungle Cruise, Amour

Maya Shimoguchi – Ford v Ferrari, Men in Black 3

Short Films and Feature Animation:

Murad Abu Eisheh – Tala’vision, Ta Hariri

Olivier Adam –  Sing 2, Minions

Michael Arias –  Harmony, Tekkonkinkreet

Evren Boisjoli –  Fauve, What Remains

Maria Brendle –  Ala Kachuu – Take and Run, The Stowaway

Sean Buckelew –  Drone, Hopkins & Delaney LLP

Olivier Calvert –  Bad Seeds, Animal Behaviour

Enrico Casarosa – Luca, La Luna

Karla Castañeda –  La Noria (The Waterwheel), Jacinta

Hugo Covarrubias – Bestia, The Night Upside Down

K.D. Dávila – Please Hold, Emergency

Charlotte De La Gournerie – Flee, Terra Incognita

Luc Desmarchelier – The Bad Guys, Open Season

Anton Dyakov – Boxballet, Vivat Musketeers!

Brian Falconer – Saul & I, Boogaloo and Graham

Youssef Joe Haidar – Scoob!, Animated American

Andy Harkness – Vivo, Get a Horse!

Pierre Hébert – Thunder River, Memories of War

Aneil Karia – The Long Goodbye, Work

Brooke Keesling – Meatclown, Boobie Girl

Nadine Lüchinger –  Ala Kachuu – Take and Run, Puppenspiel (Puppet Play)

Tadeusz Łysiak –  The Dress, Techno

Joe Mateo –  Blush, Big Hero 6

Sharon Maymon –  Skin, Summer Vacation

Kathleen McInnis – Mama, Downturn

Yvett Merino – Encanto, Wreck-It Ralph

Alberto Mielgo –  The Windshield Wiper, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Les Mills –  Affairs of the Art, The Canterbury Tales

Jetzabel Moreno Hernández –  The Followers, Plums and Green Smoke

Dan Ojari –  Robin Robin, Slow Derek

Brian Pimental –  Tarzan, A Goofy Movie

Mikey Please – Robin Robin, The Eagleman Stag

Erin Ramos – Encanto, Frozen II

Mike Rianda –  The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Doug Roland –  Feeling Through, A Better Way

Leo Sanchez –  The Windshield Wiper, Over the Moon

Marc J. Scott –  The Boss Baby: Family Business, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

Sarah Smith – Ron’s Gone Wrong, Arthur Christmas

Daniel Šuljić –  From Under Which Rock Did They Crawl Out, The Cake

Conrad Vernon – The Addams Family, Shrek 2

Pamela Ziegenhagen-Shefland –  Abominable, The Emperor’s New Groove

Sound:

Douglas Axtell –  True Grit, I Am Sam

Nerio Barberis – Violeta al Fin, Find a Boyfriend for My Wife…Please!

Amanda Beggs –  The Forever Purge, Finding ’Ohana

Adrian Bell – Mothering Sunday, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Joshua Berger – King Richard, The Lost City of Z

Paul (Salty) Brincat – The Invisible Man, The Thin Red Line

Tom Yong-Jae Burns –  Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Blade Runner 2049

Benjamin A. Burtt – Dolittle, Black Panther

Simon Chase –  Belfast, Artemis Fowl

Brian Chumney – West Side Story, The Croods: A New Age

Richard Flynn –  The Power of the Dog, Slow West

Albert Gasser –  Straight Outta Compton, Dances With Wolves

Lewis Goldstein –  In the Heights, Hereditary

Theo Green –  Dune, Blade Runner 2049

James Harrison –  No Time to Die, Captain Phillips

John Hayes –  The King’s Man, Tom and Jerry

Ruth Hernandez – The United States vs. Billie Holiday, Brooklyn’s Finest

Huang Zheng – Better Days, Chongqing Hot Pot

Thomas Huhn – The Wife, White God

David Husby – Tomorrowland, Elf

Allison Jackson –  Don’t Think Twice, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Paul Ledford – One Night in Miami, Logan

Leff Lefferts – Vivo, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

Nancy MacLeod –  The Revenant, The Hunger Games

Charles Maynes –  After Earth, Letters from Iwo Jima

Alan Meyerson –  Dune, Inception

Casey Stone –  Frozen, Tsotsi

Edward Tise –  Into the Wild, Full Metal Jacket

Jana Vance –  Cast Away, Saving Private Ryan

Tara Webb –  The Power of the Dog, Mortal Kombat

Waldir Xavier –  From Afar, Central Station

Denise Yarde –  Belfast, Dumbo

Visual Effects:

Ivy Agregan –  India Sweets and Spices, Wakefield

Geeta Basantani –  Spider-Man: No Way Home, Vivo

Aharon Bourland –  Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Venom

Ivan Busquets –  Malignant, The Irishman

Joe Ceballos –  Skyscraper, Thor: Ragnarok

Richard Anthony Clegg –  The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, Blade Runner 2049

Mark Curtis –  Sully, Spectre

Markus Degen –  The King’s Man, Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Jack Edjourian –  Top Gun: Maverick, Tenet

Eric Enderton –  Shark Tale, Jurassic Park

Marcos Fajardo Orellana –  Thor, Monster House

Joel Green – No Time to Die, The Kid Who Would Be King

Earl Hibbert – The Fate of the Furious, Guardians of the Galaxy

Hayley Hubbard – The Old Guard, Dumbo

Maia Kayser – Rango, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Garrett Lam – Limbo, Shock Wave 2

Jake Maymudes – Dune, Terminator: Dark Fate

Catherine Ann Mullan – Dumbo, Maleficent

Charlie Noble – No Time to Die, Wonder Woman 1984

J. Alan Scott – Finch, The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Tefft Smith – Alice through the Looking Glass, Tomorrowland

Alan Travis – Black Widow, The Irishman

Michael Van Eps – Deepwater Horizon, Poseidon

Sean Noel Walker – Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Black Widow

Vernon Wilbert – Stealth, I, Robot

Eric Jay Wong – Avengers: Age of Ultron, Lucy

Kevin Wooley – Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Jurassic World

Wei Zheng – Mank, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Writers:

Zach Baylin – King Richard

Henry Bean – The Believer, Deep Cover

*Pawo Choyning Dorji – Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

Michael Grais – Cool World, Poltergeist

Ted Griffin – Ocean’s Eleven, Ravenous

*Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Jeremy O Harris – Zola

*Sian Harries Heder – CODA, Tallulah

Mike Jones – Luca, Soul

Reema Kagti –  Gully Boy, Gold

Adele Lim – Raya and the Last Dragon, Crazy Rich Asians

Craig Mazin – Identity Thief, The Hangover Part II

Margaret Nagle – With/In, The Good Lie

Takamasa Oe – Drive My Car, Beautiful Method

Alex Ross Perry – Her Smell, Listen Up Philip

Adam Rifkin – Giuseppe Makes a Movie, Small Soldiers

Jordan Roberts – Big Hero 6, 3, 2, 1…Frankie Go Boom

Katie Silberman – Booksmart, Isn’t It Romantic

Randi Mayem Singer – Tooth Fairy, Mrs. Doubtfire

Jon Spaihts – Dune, Doctor Strange

Małgorzata Szumowska – Never Gonna Snow Again, Elles

Mark A. Victor – Cool World, Poltergeist

Members-at-Large:

Keith Adams

Josiah Akinyele

Richard Berger

Andrew Birch

Andrew Cannava

George Drakoulias

Andrew Dunlap

Erin Dusseault

James Farrell

Valerie Flueger Veras

Andy Fowler

Glenn Kiser

Anne Lai

Susan Lazarus

Joe Machota

Leonard Maltin

Deborah McIntosh

Julia Michels

Daniel Rabinow

Ilda Santiago

Danie Streisand

Matt Sullivan

Anne Lajla Utsi

Matt Vioral

Michael Zink

Recently, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its newly elected 2022–2023 Board of Governors. The governors will take office at the first scheduled board meeting of the new term.