Taylor Swift has been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences alongside Austin Butler, Keke Palmer, Paul Mescal, Ke Huy Quan, Bill Hader and more. See the full list of this year's invitees:
The most exclusive club in Hollywood is once again parting the velvet rope, with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announcing Wednesday that it is opening its ranks to 398 new members.
With the organization continuing to push for greater inclusion even after reaching its post-#OscarsSoWhite diversity goals, 40% of the members of the new 2023 class identify as women and 34% are from underrepresented ethnic/racial communities. A little more than half are from outside the United States.in 2020, of doubling the number of women and people of color in its membership ranks, the academy has slowed the pace of overall growth in recent years.
Four branches invited more women than men this year, down from seven last year, including casting directors, costume designers, makeup artists and hairstylists and marketing and public relations. Two branches — actors and directors — drew the majority of their candidates from underrepresented ethnic/racial communities, down from three last year.
In the music branch, which has brought in such pop stars in recent years as Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish, the invitees include Swift, whose song “Carolina” from “Where the Crawdads Sing” was considered a potential original song contender this year but failed to make the cut, and David Byrne, whose “Everything Everywhere” song “This Is a Life” earned a nomination this year and who shared an original score Oscar in 1988 with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su for Bernardo Bertolucci’s epic “The Last...
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