Short Film and Feature Animation branch adds 105 new members; 52 new members added to the Visual Effects branch.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has extended membership to 928 new members, according to an announcement made on Monday, including 105 new members to the Short Film and Feature Animation branch, and 52 new members to the Visual Effects branch.
The new members come from 58 countries, with women comprising 49 percent of the incoming class. Women now comprise 31 percent of the Academy’s membership. Thirty-eight percent of the 2018 incoming members are people of color, bringing the total percentage of Academy members who are also people of color to 16 percent.
Seventeen Oscar winners have been given membership, along with 92 Oscar nominees across 103 separate nominations. The youngest member is 14, and the oldest member is 86.
Nine branches invited more women than men, including the Actors, Casting Directors, Costume Designers, Documentary, Executives, Film Editors, Makeup Artists & Hairstylists, Producers and Public Relations branches.
The full list of new members in the Short Film and Feature Animation and Visual Effects branches is shown below; the full list of 928 new inductees can be viewed on the Academy website.
SHORT FILM & FEATURE ANIMATION
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Allison Abbate |
Kim Adams |
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Ali Asgari |
Katja Benrath |
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Jongnic Bontemps |
Paul Briggs |
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Nick Bruno |
Spela Cadez |
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Sofia Carrillo |
Scott Carroll |
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Martine Chartrand |
Bruno Chauffard |
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Yarrow Cheney |
Teresa Cheng |
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Pedro Collantes |
Melanie Coombs |
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Michèle Cournoyer |
Jill Culton |
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Cassidy Curtis |
Jennifer Dahlman |
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Kevin Deters |
Karen Disher |
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Ann Marie Fleming |
Nick Fletcher |
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Kirk Garfield |
Danis Goulet |
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Carlos Grangel |
Hamish Grieve |
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Nicole Grindle |
Yasser Hamed |
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Atsuko Hirayanagi |
Harry Hitner |
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Brent Homman |
Mamoru Hosoda |
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Daisy Jacobs |
Jeong Dahee |
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Yvette Kaplan |
Sunao Katabuchi |
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Dorota Kobiela |
Ru Kuwahata |
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Jan Lachauer |
Josh Lawson |
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Pierre Leduc |
Lei Lei |
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Anthony Leo |
Alexander Levenson |
|
Li Jie |
Liu Jian |
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Adolph Lusinsky |
Maggie Malone |
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Joe Mancewicz |
Pam Marsden Siragusa |
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Mauro Mueller |
Vincent Di Nguyen |
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Fredrik Nilsson |
Kevin M. Ochs |
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Ngozi Onwurah |
Mauricio Osaki |
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Chris Overton |
Sergio Pablos |
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Nina Paley |
Michaela Pavlátová |
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Ruben Perez |
Regina Pessoa |
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Suzan Pitt |
Bobby Podesta |
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Max Porter |
Carlos Fernandez Puertolas |
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Joanna Quinn |
Eric Ramsey |
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Vanitha Rangaraju |
Jeffrey R. Ranjo |
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Timothy Reckart |
Tobias Rosen |
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Farnoosh Samadi |
Gini Cruz Santos |
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Jakob Schuh |
Georges Schwizgebel |
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Yuriko Senoo |
Carla Shelley |
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Rachel Shenton |
Makoto Shinkai |
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Amy Lawson Smeed |
Tony Smeed |
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Keith L. Smith |
Patrick Smith |
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Josh Staub |
Stacey Steers |
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Chris Stover |
Mark Swift |
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Shannon Tindle |
Karen Rupert Toliver |
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Cilia Van Dijk |
Cesar Velazquez |
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Dina Velikovskaya |
John Walker |
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Dick Walsh |
Dave Walvoord |
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Hugh Welchman |
Stevie Wermers-Skelton |
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Carey Williams |
Larry Y. Wu |
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Paul Young |
Jennifer Yu |
|
Kathy Zielinski |
VISUAL EFFECTS
|
Gregory Anderson |
Angela Barson |
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Jay Barton |
Geoffrey Baumann |
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Joel Behrens |
Jean Bolte |
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Glenn Campbell |
Jeff Capogreco |
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Trent Claus |
Patrick Conran |
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Jonathan Egstad |
Mark Elendt |
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Jonathan Fawkner |
Audrey Ferrara |
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Lucinda Foy |
Eric Frazier |
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Florian Gellinger |
Larry Gritz |
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Charlie Iturriaga |
Paul Kavanagh |
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Michael Koperwas |
Gene Kozicki |
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Paul Lambert |
Kevin Martel |
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Aaron Mcbride |
Ken Mcgaugh |
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Scott Meadows |
Yvonne Muinde |
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Mike Mulholland |
Gerd Nefzer |
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Erik Nordby |
Jessica Norman |
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Kaori Ogino |
Russell T. Paul |
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Philip Peterson |
Andrew Roberts |
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Rachel Rose |
Sue Rowe |
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Daryl Sawchuk |
Nelson Sepulveda |
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Thrain Shadbolt |
Matt Sloan |
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Greg Steele |
Sandra Stewart |
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Nigel Sumner |
Hanzhi Tang |
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Corey Turner |
Todd Vaziri |
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Chris Waegner |
Joel Whist |
|
Sheila Wickens |
Alison Wortman |
Source: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
