Austin Butler, Taylor Swift Among 400 Stars Offered Academy Membership – KVR News

Austin Butler, Taylor Swift, and Ke Huy Quan are among almost 400 people invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The organization – which is behind the Oscars – have issued 398 invitations to those who have distinguished themselves with their contributions to motion pictures, with those offered membership including actors, musicians, directors, producers, publicists, make-up artists, production designers and cinematographers .

Other notable invitees include ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ directors The Daniels, and actress Stephanie Hsu from the film, as well as Kerry Condon, Selma Blair, Nicholas Hoult, Lashana Lynch, The Weeknd, Paul Mescal, Keke Palmer and Bill Hader.

The success of ‘RRR’ has seen actors Ram Charan and NT Rama Rao Jr. offered Academy membership, as well as the film’s production designer Sabu Cyril and cinematographer KK Senthil Kumar, and composer and songwriters MM Keeravani and Chandrabose, who worked on the movie’s song ‘Naatu Naatu’.

Eight of this year’s invitees, including The Daniels, were invited by multiple branches of the Academy and must select one strand when accepting their membership.

Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang said in a statement: “The Academy is proud to welcome these artists and professionals into our membership. pictures and on movie fans worldwide.”

The organization noted that if all 398 invitees – one more than was invited last year – accept their membership, the total members would be 10, 817, with the number of voting members standing at 9, 375.

Selected list of 2023 invites:

Actors:

1. Zar Amir-Ebrahimi
2. Sakura Ando
3. Selma Blair
4. Marsha Stephanie Blake
5. Austin Butler
6. Raúl Castillo
7. Chang Chen
8. Ram Charan
9. –Kerry Condon
10. Robert John Davi
11. Dolly De Leon
12. Martina Gedeck
13. Bill Hader
14. Nicholas Hoult
15. Stephanie Hsu
16. Tin Lok Koo
17. Vicky Krieps
18. Joanna Kulig
19. Lashana Lynch
20. A MartinezMore
21. Noémie Merlant
22. Paul Mescal
23. Richard Mofe-Damijo
24. Keke Palmer
25. Park Hae-il
26. Ke Huy Quan
27. NT Rama Rao Jr.
28. Paul Reiser
29. Rosa Salazar

Directors:

1. Colm Bairead
2. Abner Benaim
3. Edward Berger
4. Antonio Campos
5. Anthony Chen
6. Lukas Dhont
7. Andreas Dresen
8. Nils Gaup
9. –Rashaad Ernesto Green
10. Ana Katz
11. Joseph Kosinski
12. Daniel Kwan
13. Francisco Lombardi
14. Carlos Lopez Estrada
15. Mounia Meddour
16. Santiago Miter
17. CJ “Fiery” Obasi
18. Mani Ratnam
19. Anita Rocha da Silveira
20. Hiner Saleem
21. Daniel Scheinert
22. Maria Schrader
23. Michael Showalter
24. Agnieszka Smoczyńska
25. Chaitanya Tamhane

Music:

1. Jean-Michel Bernard
2. Rafiq BhatiaMore
3. Alain Boublil
4. David Buckley
5. David Byrne
6. Dominick George Certo
7. Chandrabose
8. –Ian Chang
9. Anne-Kathrin Elisabeth Dern
10. Anna Drubich
11. MM Keeravaani
12. Penka Kouneva
13. –Ryan Lott
14. Zeltia Montes
15. Starr Parodi
16. Taylor Swift
17. Dara Taylor
18. Abel Makkonen Tesfaye aka ‘The Weeknd’

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