Oscar Academy’s “Class Of 2017” Invites B-Town Celebrities:- To be a part of the Oscar Academy’s ‘Class of 2017’, apart from directors like Mrinal Sen, Buddhadeb Dasgupta and Goutam Ghose, Bollywood celebrities such as Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone have been invited to be part of the event.
The announcement was made on Wednesday. Cheryl Boone Isaacs, President of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences, was quoted as saying on the official Oscar website, “We are proud to invite our newest class to the Academy. The entire motion picture community is what we make of it.”
“It is up to all of us to ensure that new faces and voices are seen and heard, and to take a shot on the next generation the way someone took a shot on each of us,” Isaacs added. From around 57 countries, there are 774 new members - a record breaking number.
From 2015-2017, it is not just a 359% increase in women invited to join the Academy, but also a pronounced rise in people of color invited - signifying the diversity it was embracing, noted the Oscar Academy.
There are also actors Irrfan Khan and Salman Khan, Indian costume designer Arjun Bhasin, directors and writers like Anand Patwardhan and Sooni Taraporevala from India. Others who are part of the list include India-born Mohit Kallianpur and Mahesh Ramasubramanian, who have worked in animation and visual effects of Hollywood films like “Frozen” and “Shrek” respectively.
Among other international high-profile actors newly invited to the Academy are “Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot, “Moonlight” Oscar nominee Naomie Harris, Donald Glover, Chris Hemsworth, Riz Ahmed, Adam Driver, Dwayne Johnson, Leslie Jones, Betty White, Amy Poehler, Chris Pratt, Anna Faris, Margot Robbie, Channing Tatum, Kristen Stewart, Shailene Woodley, Ruth Negga, and Rupert Grint, while the Directors include Barry Jenkins, Jordan Peele, David Ayer, Theodore Melfi and the Russo brothers.
The new members invited are part of seven branches - actors, casting directors, costume designers, designers, documentary, executives and film editors.
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