Taylor Swift, Austin Butler, Keke Palmer and Ke Huy Quan invited to join the Film Film Academy
Taylor Swift, Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, ‘Elvis’ star Austin Butler, ‘Nope’s’ Keke Palmer and The Weeknd have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The organization behind the Oscars said Wednesday that it has invited 398 individuals to join its ranks this year.
Among the invitees are 22 Oscar winners and 76 nominees, such as “Everything Everywhere All at Once” writer-director-producers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who must choose one of the three branches, as well as actors Paul Mescal, Stephanie Hu and Kerry Condon.
A majority of this year’s invitees come from countries outside the US, including “RRR” actors Ram Charan and NT Rama Rao Jr., “Holy Spider” star Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, “Triangle of Sadness” escape Dolly De Leon, “Shoplifters” Sakura Ando, ”Phantom Thread” star Vicky Kreips and “Decision to Leave’s” Park Hae-il. Other Hollywood actors on the list include Lashana Lynch, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Hader, Paul Reiser, Selma Blair and “The Goonies” actor Robert John Davi.
Those invited to join the director’s branch include Joseph Kosinski (“Top Gun: Maverick), Edward Berger (“All Quiet on the Western Front”)Santiago Miter (“Argentina, 1985”), Michael Showalter (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”) and Carlos López Estrada (“Raya and the Last Dragon”).
The executive’s invitees include David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, Joana Vicente, CEO of Sundance Institute and Emeritus SXSW Director Janet Pierson.
In the music branch, besides Swift who recently wrote a song for “Where the Crawdads Sing” and Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (“The Weeknd”), other notables include David Byrne, “RRR’s” MM Keeravaani and Son Lux’s Ryan Lott and Ian Chang.
Some directors were invited to other branches. Director ‘Marcel the Shell With Shoes On’ Dean Fleischer-Camp scored an invitation to the animation and short film branch, while “Aftersun” Charlotte Wells’ invitation was to the writing branch, which also included Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro.
The academy has continued to make progress by diversifying its ranks. If all invitees accept their invitation, the Academy’s membership will be 34% female, 18% from underrepresented ethnic or racial communities, and 20% from non-U.S. countries.
