Karan Johar, Ram Charan, Jr NTR, Mani Ratnam, Siddharth Roy Kapur to be eligible to vote for Oscars

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Taylor Swift, Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner K Huey Quan, Elvis star Austin Butler, Knope’s Keke Palmer and The Weeknd have been invited to be inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The organization behind the Oscars said Wednesday that it has extended invitations to 398 individuals to join its ranks this year.

Invitees include 22 Oscar winners and 76 nominees, such as Everything Everywhere All At Once writer-director-producers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who must choose from one of three branches, as well as actors Paul Meskal, Stephanie Hsu and Kerry Condon is also involved.

Most of this year’s invitees are from countries outside the US, including RRR actors Ram Charan and NT Rama Rao Jr., Holy Spider star Zaar Ameer-Ibrahimi, Triangle of Sadness breakout Dolly De Leon, shoplifters Sakura Endo, Phantom Thread star… Vicky Craps and Decides to Leave Park Hee-il. Other Hollywood actors on the list include Lashana Lynch, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Hader, Paul Reiser, Selma Blair and The Goonies actor Robert John Dewey.

The Academy has continued to make strides in diversifying its ranks. Should all invitees accept their invitations, the Academy’s ranks will be 34% women, 18% from underrepresented ethnic or racial communities, and 20% from non-US countries. Other Indian inductees include Mani Ratnam and Chaitanya Tamhane in the director’s branch, Karan Johar and Siddharth Roy Kapur in the producer’s branch, KK Senthil Kumar in the cinematographer’s branch, Sabu Cyril in the production design branch and Shaunak Sen in the documentary branch.

Those invited to join the director’s wing were Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick), Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front), Santiago Miter (Argentina, 1985), Michael Showalter (The Eyes of Tammy Fey) and Carlos López Estrada (Raya and the Last Dragon).

Invited members of the executive branch include David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, Joanna Vicente, CEO of the Sundance Institute, and Janet Pearson, Emeritus Director of SXSW.

In the music branch, apart from Swift, who recently penned a song for Where the Crowds Sing, and Abel McKeon Tesfaye (The Weeknd), other notable people include David Byrne, RRR’s M.M. Are included. Keeravani and Chandrabose, and Ryan Lott and Ian Chang of Son Lux.

Some directors were invited to other branches. Dean Fleischer-Camp, director of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, received an invitation to the Animation and Short Film branch, while Charlotte Wells of “Afterson” was invited to the Writers branch, which also invited Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro. Was.

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