Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Anil Kapoor Receive An Invitation To Become A Member Of Oscar Academy, Everything You Need To Know

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences(Oscar academy) has recently invited 928 new members in 2018 while 20 people on the list are from Bollywood.

In 2017,  Aamir Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Irrfan Khan, Deepika Padukone, Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachchan, Mrinal Sen, Gautam Ghose and Sooni Taraporevala were invited by the academy from India, as reported by Scroll.

Meanwhile, the other 20 people from Bollywood that are invited are: Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit Nene, Madhabi Mukherjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Naseeruddin Shah, Ali Fazal, Anil Kapoor and Tabu are the Indian actors on the list while Aditya Chopra and Guneet Monga are the Indian producers.

Meanwhile, sound designers Debajit Changmai and Biswadeep Chatterjee, Cinematographer Anil Mehta, costume designers Manish Malhotra and Dolly Ahluwalia, music composers Sneha Khanwalkar and Usha Khanna, production designers Amit Ray and Subrata Chakraborty, film editor Ballu Saluja are also in the list.

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Well, the expansion comes after the anti-diversity backlash faced by the Oscar in 2015 and 2016. Now, if the members accept the invitation, the whole strength of the Academy will increase to 9,226.

In an announcement, the Academy reported that the new members will increase the diversity in a major way as 49 percent of its invitees are female and 38 percent are people of colour.

Speaking about the growth of Indian cinema in a global platform actress Priyanka Chopra said, ” It’s interesting that though (past Indian) winners were Indian, it was for their work in international films — largely about India, but not made by India.

Also, she added, “For a global community like India to be represented on a larger scale, I think it will have to move beyond a single award for all foreign language films.”

“It is very rare to see foreign language films represented in the other categories,” she ended.

Now, the academy has taken a different step by inviting personalities from 59 different nationalities.

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