29% percent of the new Academy members are people of color, down from 38% last year
Winston Duke, center, was invited to join his"Black Panther" co-stars Lupita N'yongo, left, and Danai Gurira as members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In its latest step toward diversifying its historically white-male-dominated ranks, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences opened its doors to thein its history: 842 industry professionals were invited to join the organization, down from last year’s record-setting 928 but up from the previous year’s 774.
In early 2016, facing a second consecutive year of #OscarsSoWhite controversy, the academy publicly announced an initiative to double the number of women and minorities in its ranks by 2020. Three years later, the organization has reached that goal with people of color and is on track to meet it with women next year.
Notably, at a time when gender disparities in hiring remain a hot-button topic in the film industry, 10 branches of the academy invited more women than men this year, including — for the first time — producers, directors and screenwriters. The female directors brought into the academy’s fold include Jennifer Kent , Nisha Ganatra and Mélanie Laurent .
“Although on the one hand it feels surreal to be invited as an outsider filmmaker, on the other hand as a lifelong cinephile I’m excited to contribute to the pool of voices responding to new cinema,” said writer and director Anna Biller, who has directed the low-budget feminism-inflected features “Viva” and “The Love Witch.
“I just think that if membership doesn’t change, then the Oscars don’t change,” said Josephine Decker , who was invited to join the writers branch. “To me, the only way the Oscars are relevant, period, is if they’re speaking to now. I think it's vital that you invite change and you invite the voices of the people who are trying to do something new with the medium.”
Even as the academy touts facts and figures showing its progress toward diversity, however, evaluating just how inclusive the organization has become is, to some extent, a matter of perspective., The Times reported that Oscar voters were then 94% white and 77% male. On the one hand, since 2015, the share of women in the film academy has grown by 7%, while the proportion of people of color has doubled.
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