Actors Hrithik Roshan<\/a> and Alia Bhatt<\/a>, casting\ndirectors Nandini Shrikent and Tess Joseph, costume designer Neeta Lulla,\ndocumentary filmmakers Nishtha Jain and Amit Madheshiya, visual effects\nsupervisors Vishal Anand and Sandeep Kamal and film score composer Nainita\nDesai are among the 819 people who have been invited to join the Academy of\nMotion Picture Arts and Sciences. The organisation published the list of new\ninvitees on Tuesday. Those who accept the membership will have voting\nprivileges at the 93rd Academy Awards which will be held on April 25, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other established names who have also been extended the invite include\nfilmmakers such as Lulu Wang (The Farewell), Ari Aster (Midsommar), actors Ana\nDe Armas (Knives Out), Brian Tyree Henry (If Beale Street Could Talk), Florence\nPugh (Little Women), Zendaya, John David Washington among more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Out of the new invitees, 75 of them are Oscar nominees, while 15 have\nwon the Academy Award in the past. Eight invitees out of the whole lot have\nbeen asked to join the Academy by its multiple branches. However, once the\ninvitee accepts the membership, they are required to select only one branch of\ntheir choice. The Academy added that 49 per cent of the invitees are\ninternational and represent a total of 68 countries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the major goals of the Academy, of late, has been to diversify its ranks. In 2016, the board sought to double its minority membership by 2020, an objective that they have successfully achieved. Actors Hrithik Roshan and Alia Bhatt, casting directors Nandini Shrikent and Tess Joseph, costume designer Neeta Lulla, documentary filmmakers Nishtha Jain and Amit …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24],"tags":[13354,13356,261,82,11055,2830,12789,12700,13011,4521,4048,13357,13353,13355,5379,13015],"class_list":["post-7891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-india-news","tag-academy","tag-academy-awards","tag-alia-bhatt","tag-bollywood","tag-bollywood-celebrity","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-style","tag-coronavirus","tag-dance-number","tag-diva","tag-hollywood","tag-hrithik-and-alia-among-819-invited-to-academy-of-motion-picture-arts-and-sciences","tag-hritik-roshan","tag-neeta-lulla","tag-oscars","tag-shaan"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7893,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions\/7893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}