The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 105 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. Those who accept the invitation will be the only additions in 2008 to the Academy’s roster of voting members.

“These individuals are all incredibly talented and a credit to the world of filmmaking,” said Academy President Sid Ganis. “They exemplify the high standards of the Academy and I welcome each and every one of them to our ranks.”

The membership policies that the Academy adopted in 2004 in order to slow the growth of the organization would have allowed a maximum of 137 new members in 2008, but as in the previous years, the various branch committees sometimes endorsed fewer candidates than were proposed to them. Voting membership in the organization has now held steady at just under 6,000 members since 2003.

New members will be welcomed into the Academy at an invitation-only reception at the Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study in Beverly Hills in September.

The 2008 invitees are:

Animators
David Bowers (Director, FLUSHED AWAY and ASTRO BOY; Story Artist, SHARK TALE, Senor Storyboard Artist, WALLACE & GROMIT IN THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT)

Ash Brannon (Director, SURF'S UP; Co-Director, TOY STORY 2; Animator, TOY STORY 2; Story Artist, A BUG's LIFE)

Doug Cooper (Visual Effects Supervisor, BEE MOVIE, SHARK TALE, THE PRINCE OF EGYPT)

Jeremy Lasky (Director of Photography, Camera, WALL-E, Cinematographer, CARS; Director Of Photography, FINDING NEMO, Layout Artist, MONSTERS, INC., A BUG'S LIFE)

Caroline Leaf (Director, TWO SISTERS; Animator, THE STREET)

David Schaub (Senior Supervising Animator, SURF'S UP, Animation Supervisor, THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, THE POLAR EXPRESS)

David Silverman (Director, THE SIMPSONS MOVIE, co-director, MONSTERS, INC.)

Suzie Templeton (Writer/Director/Editor, PETER & THE WOLF, Writer/Director/Producer, DOG)

Visual Effects
Nick Davis (VFX Supervisor, THE DARK KNIGHT, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, TROY, HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS)

Brian Gernand (Model/Miniature Supervisor, INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL, EVAN ALMIGHTY, TRANSFORMERS)

Dan Glass (VFX Supervisor, SPEED RACER, V FOR VENDETTA, BATMAN BEGINS, THE MATRIX RELOADED, THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS)

Bryan Grill (VFX Supervisor, THE GOLDEN COMPASS, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END)

Edward T. Hirsh (VFX Supervisor, THE HAPPENING, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT, Additional Visual Effects Supervisor, WAR OF THE WORLDS)

Helena Packer (VFX Supervisor, CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR, Digital Effects Supervisor, X-MEN 2)

Kelly Port (Plate Supervisor, THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR, VFX Supervisor, WE OWN THE NIGHT, THE NATIVITY STORY)

Ted Rae (VFX Supervisor, APOCALYPTO, THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST)

Doug Roble (Software Developer, MEET THE ROBINSONS; Software Engineer, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW)

Carey Villegas (VFX Plate Supervisor, I AM LEGEND, SPIDER-MAN 3)


Actors
Sacha Baron Cohen, Josh Brolin, Marion Cotillard, Ruby Dee, Allison Janney, Jet Li and Ray Winstone

At-Large
Jim Houston, Neil Machlis and Sheila Nevins

Casting Directors
Ronna Kress

Cinematographers
Jonathan W. Brown, Clark Mathis, Kramer Morgenthau, J. Michael Muro, Tim Orr and Tom Richmond

Costume Designers
Isis Mussenden

Directors
Sergei Bodrov, James Gray, Michael Haneke, Doug Liman, Kimberly Peirce, Peyton Reed, Jason Reitman, Walter Salles and Gore Verbinski

Documentary
Nanette Burstein, Heidi Ewing, Liz Garbus, Michele Ohayon and Deborah Shaffer

Executives
Alan Bergman, Dana Goldberg, Sidney Kimmel, Chris S. LeRoy, Andrew Rona and Jeff Skoll

Film Editors
Barry Alexander Brown, John Carnochan, John Gilroy, Mark Livolsi, Dylan Tichenor and Juliette Welfling

Live Action Short Films
Philippe Pollet-Villard

Makeup/Hairstylists
Jan Archibald, Kate Biscoe, Didier Lavergne and Christien Tinsley

Music
Glen Ballard, J. J. George and Michael Giacchino

Producers
Armyan Bernstein, Jennifer Fox, Lianne Halfon, Hal Lieberman, Andrew Macdonald, Karen Murphy, Peter R. Newman and JoAnne Sellar

Production Designers
Jack Fisk and Clayton R. Hartley

Public Relations
Stephanie Allen, Suzanne Fritz, Kevin Goetz, Stephanie Kluft, Tim Palen and Marc Weinstock

Set Decorators
Larry Dias, Katie Spencer and Sandy Reynolds Wasco

Sound
Craig Berkey, Fernando Camara, David Giammarco, Mike Hopkins, Robert J. Kizer, Alyson Dee Moore, Mark Onks and Jon Taylor

Stunt Coordinators
Melissa R. Stubbs

Writers
Judd Apatow, David Benioff, Jean-Claude Carriere, Diablo Cody, Tamara Jenkins, Jeff Nathanson and Nancy Oliver