Academy Invites Largest Most Diverse Class of New Members Ever
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the largest and most diverse class of new members in its 89-year history, with John Boyega, Eva Mendes, Oscar Isaac, Emma Watson, James Wan, and Lana and Lilly Wachowski among the 683 invitees. The group underscores the academy's ongoing efforts to broaden its ranks  which have historically been overwhelmingly white, male, and older  in the wake of the OscarsSoWhite controversy that erupted earlier this year when no actors of color were nominated for Oscars for the second year in a row. The controversy prompted the academy to drastically overhaul its membership rules and goals. The new class is more than double last year's 322 invitees, and the academy highlighted the group's diversity in an announcement Wednesday. Forty-six percent of the new members are female, and 41 percent are people of color. Those numbers are enough to bring the overall makeup of the 7,000-plus-member organization up to 27 percent female from 25 percent and 11 percent people of color from 8 percent. The new class also includes 283 international members from 59 countries, while the group's ages range from 24 to 91. Other invitees include actors Brie Larson, Idris Elba, Carmen Ejogo, America Ferrera, Freida Pinto, and Michael B. Jordan writers Tina Fey, Abi Morgan, Takeshi Kitano, and O'Shea "Ice Cube" Jackson also invited as an actor and directors Cary Joji Fukunaga, Ryan Coogler also selected as a writer, Lexi Alexander, Xavier Dolan, and Ana Lily Amirpour. Individuals invited to multiple branches, as in the case of Coogler and Jackson, must choose one group upon accepting their membership. "This class continues our long-term commitment to welcoming extraordinary talent reflective of those working in film today," Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs said in the announcement. "We encourage the larger creative community to open its doors wider, and create opportunities for anyone interested in working in this incredible and storied industry.", The 2016 invitees are, Actors Mahershala Ali  The Hunger Games Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Anthony Anderson  The Departed, Hustle  Flow Adam Beach  Suicide Squad, Flags of Our Fathers Kate Beckinsale  Love  Friendship, The Aviator Chadwick Boseman  Captain America Civil War, Get on Up John Boyega  Star Wars The Force Awakens, Attack the Block Betty Buckley  Wyatt Earp, Carrie Rose Byrne  X-Men First Class, Bridesmaids Julie Carmen  The Milagro Beanfield War, Gloria Enrique Castillo  Dj Vu, Bound by Honor Morris Chestnut  G.I. Jane, Boyz N the Hood Cliff Curtis  Live Free or Die Hard, Training Day Loretta Devine  Crash, I Am Sam Carmen Ejogo  Selma, Sparkle Idris Elba  Beasts of No Nation, Pacific Rim America Ferrera  Cesar Chavez, End of Watch Vivica A. Fox  Kill Bill, Independence Day Andrew Garfield  99 Homes, The Amazing Spider-Man Greta Gerwig  Frances Ha, To Rome with Love Jesse D. Goins  The Ugly Truth, Patriot Games Bruce Greenwood  Flight, Star Trek Carla Gugino  Watchmen, Night at the Museum Luis Guzmn  Punch-Drunk Love, Carlito's Way Dennis Haysbert  Dear White People, Wreck-It Ralph Tom Hiddleston  Crimson Peak, Marvel's The Avengers James Hong  Safe, Mulan Oscar Isaac  Ex Machina, A Most Violent Year O'Shea "Ice Cube" Jackson*  Ride Along, Friday Dakota Johnson  Black Mass, Fifty Shades of Grey Cherry Jones  Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Signs Michael B. Jordan  Creed, Fruitvale Station Daniel Dae Kim  The Divergent Series Insurgent, Crash Regina King  Ray, Jerry Maguire Brie Larson  Room, Trainwreck Byung-Hun Lee  Terminator Genisys, G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra Nia Long  Keanu, Boyz N the Hood Sal Lopez  The Astronaut Farmer, Full Metal Jacket Ignacio Lpez Tarso  Under the Volcano, Nazarin Patti LuPone  Parker, Driving Miss Daisy Peter Mackenzie  Trumbo, 42 Rachel McAdams  Spotlight, Midnight in Paris Eva Mendes  The Place beyond the Pines, Hitch Tatsuya Nakadai  Ran, Kagemusha Adepero Oduye  The Big Short, 12 Years a Slave Marisa Paredes  The Skin I Live In, All about My Mother Nate Parker  Beyond the Lights, Red Tails Harold Perrineau  Zero Dark Thirty, 28 Weeks Later Jorge Perugorra  Che, Strawberry and Chocolate Silvia Pinal  Vintage Model, The Exterminating Angel Freida Pinto  Immortals, Slumdog Millionaire Michelle Rodriguez  Avatar, Girlfight Anika Noni Rose  For Colored Girls, Dreamgirls Cecilia Roth  Lucia Lucia, All about My Mother Mark Rylance  Bridge of Spies, The Other Boleyn Girl Pepe Serna  The Black Dahlia, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez Martin Starr  I'll See You in My Dreams, Adventureland Elizabeth Sung  Memoirs of a Geisha, The Joy Luck Club Sharmila Tagore  Dhadkan, The World of Apu Tessa Thompson  Creed, Dear White People Lorraine Toussaint  Selma, Middle of Nowhere Glynn Turman  Super 8, Men of Honor Gabrielle Union  Top Five, Bad Boys II Jacob Vargas  The 33, Jarhead Alicia Vikander  The Danish Girl, Ex Machina Emma Watson  The Bling Ring, The Perks of Being a Wallflower Damon Wayans, Jr.  Big Hero 6, Let's Be Cops Marlon Wayans  The Heat, Requiem for a Dream Rita Wilson  It's Complicated, Runaway Bride Daphne Zuniga  Staying Together, Spaceballs, Casting Directors Shaheen Baig  Youth, The Impossible Sharon Bialy  Secret in Their Eyes, Mr. Holland's Opus Sara Bilbatua  Pan's Labyrinth, The Devil's Backbone Antoinette Boulat  Diary of a Chambermaid, The Grand Budapest Hotel Deirdre Bowen  Eastern Promises, Billy Madison Jacqueline Brown  Akeelah and the Bee, Jackie Brown Carmen Cuba  The Martian, Side Effects Christian Kaplan  The Book of Life, Rio Moonyeenn Lee  Avengers Age of Ultron, Blood Diamond Natalie Lyon  Inside Out, Toy Story 3 Walter Rippell  Everybody Has a Plan, The Secret in Their Eyes Richard Rousseau  Saint Laurent, Renoir Kim Taylor-Coleman  Dope, Oldboy Manuel Teil  Babel, Y Tu Mam Tambin, Cinematographers Brbara Alvarez  The Second Mother, Whisky C. Mitchell Amundsen  Ride Along 2, Now You See Me Adam Arkapaw  Macbeth, McFarland, USA Sergio Armstrong  No, The Maid Michael Barrett  Ted 2, A Million Ways to Die in the West Natasha Braier  The Rover, The Milk of Sorrow Lula Carvalho  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, RoboCop Caroline Champetier  Holy Motors, Of Gods and Men Enrique Chediak  The 5th Wave, The Maze Runner Charlotte Bruus Christensen  Far from the Madding Crowd, The Hunt Sofian El Fani  Timbuktu, Blue Is the Warmest Color Mtys Erdly  Son of Saul, The Quiet Ones Frank Griebe  A Hologram for the King, Cloud Atlas Kirsten Johnson*  CitizenFour, This Film Is Not Yet Rated Judith Kaufmann  13 Minutes, Inbetween Worlds Jeanne Lapoirie  Gett The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, My Little Princess Hlne Louvart  The Wonders, Pina Flix Monti  Our Last Tango, The Secret in Their Eyes Peter Pau  The Forbidden Kingdom, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Daniel Pearl  Friday the 13th, Aliens vs. Predator  Requiem Poon Hang-Sang  Ip Man 2 Legend of the Grandmaster, Kung Fu Hustle Gkhan Tiryaki  Winter Sleep, Once upon a Time in Anatolia Kim White  Inside Out, Toy Story 3 Jo Willems  The Hunger Games Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2, The Hunger Games Catching Fire Steve Yedlin  Carrie, Looper Nelson Yu Lik-Wai  A Simple Life, 24 City Haris Zambarloukos  Cinderella, Jack Ryan Shadow Recruit Zhao Fei  The Sun Also Rises, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Costume Designers Olivier Briot  Lucy, Taken Madeline Fontaine  The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, Yves Saint Laurent Pierre-Yves Gayraud  Albert Nobbs, The Bourne Identity Sonia Grande  Magic in the Moonlight, Even the Rain Suttirat Anne Larlarb  Steve Jobs, 127 Hours Manon Rasmussen  Nymphomaniac, A Royal Affair, Designers Yoshihito Akatsuka  The Left Ear, Warriors of the Rainbow Seediq Bale Kokayi Ampah  Knight and Day Flags of Our Fathers Jille Azis  Magic in the Moonlight, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Hannah E. Beachler  Miles Ahead, Creed Bert Berry  Inside Out, Cars 2 Celia Bobak  The Martian, Shanghai Stephanie Carroll  Elsa  Fred, Monsoon Wedding Sue Chan  Gone Girl, 300 Rise of an Empire Rodolfo Damaggio  Tomorrowland, Terminator Genisys Rena DeAngelo  Bridge of Spies, The Judge Warren Drummond  Straight Outta Compton, Nightcrawler Colin Gibson  Mad Max Fury Road, Happy Feet Two Bernhard Henrich  Bridge of Spies, Unfinished Business Kalina Ivanov  Max, Little Miss Sunshine Michael Anthony Jackson  Gods of Egypt, Fantastic Four Philip Keller  Jurassic World, The Last Witch Hunter Carolyn A. Loucks  Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice, RoboCop Chris Lowe  Spectre, Into the Woods Ina Mayhew  Barbershop The Next Cut, Tyler Perry's Good Deeds Alice Normington  Suffragette, Nowhere Boy Hamish Purdy  The Revenant, Step Up All In Peter Ramsey*  Penguins of Madagascar, Shrek the Third Pilar Revuelta  Exodus Gods and Kings, Pan's Labyrinth Mark Ricker Trumbo, Get on Up Dena Roth  The Wedding Ringer, Think Like a Man Too David Schlesinger  True Story, Annie Richard Sherman  The Gift, Beautiful Creatures Michael Standish  The Danish Girl, Victor Frankenstein Yohei Taneda  Monster Hunt, The Hateful Eight Lisa Thompson  Mad Max Fury Road, San Andreas Patrice Vermette  Sicario, The Young Victoria Frank Walsh  The Huntsman Winter's War, High-Rise, Directors Lenny Abrahamson  Room, Frank Naji Abu Nowar  Theeb Maren Ade  Everyone Else, The Forest for the Trees Lexi Alexander  Punisher War Zone, Green Street Hooligans Haifaa al-Mansour  Wadjda Ana Lily Amirpour  A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Amma Asante  Belle, A Way of Life Katie Aselton  Black Rock, The Freebie Ramin Bahrani  99 Homes, At Any Price Anna Boden  Mississippi Grind, It's Kind of a Funny Story Catherine Breillat  The Sleeping Beauty, Sex Is Comedy Israel Crdenas  Sand Dollars, Carmita Carlos Carrera  Backyard, El Crimen del Padre Amaro Nuri Bilge Ceylan  Winter Sleep, Once upon a Time in Anatolia Souleymane Ciss  Brightness, The Wind Isabel Coixet  Learning to Drive, Elegy Ryan Coogler*  Creed, Fruitvale Station Scott Cooper  Black Mass, Crazy Heart John Crowley  Brooklyn, Closed Circuit Julie Dash  Daughters of the Dust Tamra Davis  Jean-Michel Basquiat The Radiant Child, Billy Madison Jonathan Dayton  Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine Dominique Deruddere  Flying Home, Everybody Famous! Xavier Dolan  Mommy, Tom at the Farm Cheryl Dunye  My Baby's Daddy, The Watermelon Woman Deniz Gamze Ergven  Mustang Valerie Faris  Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine Shana Feste  Endless Love, Country Strong Hannah Fidell  A Teacher Anne Fletcher  The Proposal, Step Up Ari Folman  The Congress, Waltz with Bashir Anne Fontaine  Gemma Bovery, Coco before Chanel Cary Joji Fukunaga  Beasts of No Nation, Jane Eyre Nicole Garcia  A View of Love, Charlie Says Juan Antonio Garcia Bayona  The Impossible, The Orphanage Sarah Gavron  Suffragette, Brick Lane Lesli Linka Glatter  The Proposition, Now and Then Ciro Guerra*  Embrace of the Serpent, The Wind Journeys Laura Amelia Guzmn  Sand Dollars, Carmita Sanaa Hamri  Just Wright, Something New Mia Hansen-Lve*  Eden, The Father of My Children Mahamet-Saleh Haroun  Grigris, Our Father Mary Harron  The Notorious Bettie Page, American Psycho Marielle Heller*  The Diary of a Teenage Girl Albert Hughes  The Book of Eli, Dead Presidents Hou Hsiao-Hsien  The Assassin, Three Times Patty Jenkins  Wonder Woman, Monster Naomi Kawase*  Still the Water, The Mourning Forest Abdellatif Kechiche  Blue Is the Warmest Color, Black Venus Abbas Kiarostami  Certified Copy, Taste of Cherry So Yong Kim  For Ellen, In Between Days Kiyoshi Kurosawa  Seventh Code, Pulse Karyn Kusama  Jennifer's Body, Girlfight Francis H. Lawrence  The Hunger Games Catching Fire, I Am Legend Tobias Lindholm*  A War, A Hijacking Phyllida Lloyd  The Iron Lady, Mamma Mia! Ken Loach  The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Kes Julia Loktev  The Loneliest Planet, Day Night Day Night Ami Canaan Mann  Jackie  Ryan, Texas Killing Fields Lucrecia Martel  The Headless Woman, The Holy Girl Adam McKay*  The Big Short, Anchorman The Legend of Ron Burgundy Deepa Mehta  Midnight's Children, Water Ursula Meier  Sister, Home Rebecca Miller*  The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Personal Velocity Karen Moncrieff  The Dead Girl, Blue Car Cristian Mungiu*  Graduation, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Anna Muylaert  The Second Mother Lszl Nemes*  Son of Saul Mara Novaro  The Good Herbs, Lola Victor Nunez  Spoken Word, Ulee's Gold Euzhan Palcy  Simon, A Dry White Season Park Chan-wook*  Stoker, Oldboy Luca Puenzo  The German Doctor, El Nio Pez Lynne Ramsay  We Need to Talk about Kevin, Morvern Callar Dee Rees  Pariah Nicolas Winding Refn  Only God Forgives, Drive Patricia Riggen  The 33, Girl in Progress Gillian Robespierre  Obvious Child Patricia Rozema  Kit Kittredge An American Girl, Mansfield Park Marjane Satrapi  The Voices, Persepolis Sam Taylor-Johnson  Fifty Shades of Grey, Nowhere Boy George Tillman, Jr.  Notorious, Soul Food Luis Valdez  La Bamba, Zoot Suit Melvin Van Peebles  Identity Crisis, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Margarethe von Trotta  Rosenstrasse, Marianne and Juliane Lana Wachowski  Cloud Atlas, The Matrix Trilogy Lilly Wachowski  Cloud Atlas, The Matrix Trilogy Taika Waititi  Hunt for the Wilderpeople, What We Do in the Shadows James Wan  The Conjuring, Saw Keenan Ivory Wayans*  Scary Movie, A Low Down Dirty Shame Apichatpong Weerasethakul  Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Tropical Malady, Documentary Joslyn Barnes  The House I Live In, Trouble the Water Danielle Renfrew Behrens  Kurt Cobain Montage of Heck, The Queen of Versailles Joe Bini*  Tales of the Grim Sleeper, Encounters at the End of the World Douglas Blush  The Hunting Ground, The Invisible War Rachel Boynton  Big Men, Our Brand Is Crisis Irene Taylor Brodsky  The Final Inch, Hear and Now Margaret Brown  The Great Invisible, The Order of Myths Nancy Buirski  Afternoon of a Faun Tanaquil Le Clercq, The Loving Story Maro Chermayeff  Marina Abramovic The Artist Is Present, The Kindness of Strangers Ramona S. Diaz  Don't Stop Believin' Everyman's Journey, Imelda James Gay-Rees  Amy, Senna Haile Gerima  Teza, Ashes and Embers Laurens Grant  The Black Panthers Vanguard of the Revolution, Freedom Riders Richard Hankin  Art and Craft, God Loves Uganda Kazuo Hara  A Dedicated Life, The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On Thomas Allen Harris  Through a Lens Darkly Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People, Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela Matthew Heineman  Cartel Land, Escape Fire The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare Judith Helfand  The Barber of Birmingham Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement, Blue Vinyl Amy Hobby  What Happened, Miss Simone?, Shepard  Dark Kirsten Johnson*  Cameraperson, CitizenFour Asif Kapadia  Amy, Senna Aviva Kempner  Rosenwald, The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg Pedro Kos*  The Square, Waste Land Victor Kossakovsky  Vivan las Antipodas!, The Belovs Anita Lee  Stories We Tell, Everybody's Children Shola Lynch  Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, Chisholm '72  Unbought  Unbossed Louis Massiah  W.E.B. Dubois A Biography in Four Voices Amanda Micheli  La Corona, Double Dare Spencer Nakasako  Refugee, A.K.A. Don Bonus Emiko Omori  Rabbit in the Moon, Regret to Inform Joshua Oppenheimer  The Look of Silence, The Act of Killing Dawn Porter  Trapped, Gideon's Army Gini Reticker  Pray the Devil Back to Hell, Asylum Azin Samari*  Ethel, The September Issue Jessica Sanders  After Innocence, Sing! Regina Scully  The Hunting Ground, Alive Inside Signe Byrge Srensen  The Look of Silence, The Act of Killing David Teague  Cutie and the Boxer, Freeheld Trinh T. Minh-ha  Forgetting Vietnam, Surname Viet Given Name Nam Jean Tsien  Shut Up  Sing, Scottsboro An American Tragedy Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi  Meru, Youssou N'Dour I Bring What I Love Wang Bing  Three Sisters, West of the Tracks, Executives Pam Abdy Courtney D. Armstrong Arturo Barquet Arianna Bocco Nicole Brown Rona Cosgrove Craig Dehmel Zanne Devine Lisa Ellzey Monique Esclavissat Pauline Fischer DeVon Franklin David W. Greenbaum Matthew Greenfield Erica Huggins Peter Kujawski Pamela Kunath Christine Langan Bonni Lee James F. Lopez Xavier Marchand Anikah Elizabeth McLaren James Rupert Jacob Murdoch Lachlan K. Murdoch Gigi Pritzker Josh Sapan Scott Shooman Adrian Smith Frank H. Smith Darren Dennis Throop Jason D. Young, Film Editors Niels Pagh Andersen  The Look of Silence, The Act of Killing Joe Bini*  We Need to Talk about Kevin, Cave of Forgotten Dreams Bettina Bhler  Phoenix, Barbara Pernille Bech Christensen  The Salvation, In a Better World Ral Antonio Dvalos  The Amateurs, Meet Wally Sparks Marie-Hlne Dozo  Two Days, One Night, L'Enfant Amy E. Duddleston  Elegy, Laurel Canyon Suzy Elmiger  Lola Versus, Mighty Fine Sim Evan-Jones  Shaun the Sheep Movie, Shrek Sarah Flack  Away We Go, Lost in Translation Affonso Gonalves  Carol, Winter's Bone Matthew Hamachek  Cartel Land, If a Tree Falls A Story of the Earth Liberation Front Chris King  Amy, Exit through the Gift Shop Pedro Kos*  The Square, Waste Land Sylvie Landra  Catwoman, The Fifth Element Tom McArdle  Spotlight, The Station Agent Adam Nielsen  A War, A Hijacking Kevin Nolting  Inside Out, Up Nathan Nugent  Room, Frank Stan Salfas  Morning, Let Me In Azin Samari*  Ethel, The September Issue Margaret Sixel  Mad Max Fury Road, Happy Feet Mary Stephen  Blind Mountain, A Tale of Winter Troy Takaki  Baggage Claim, The Bounty Hunter Camilla Toniolo  His Way, Company Man Bernat Vilaplana  Crimson Peak, Pan's Labyrinth Pax Wassermann  Elaine Stritch Shoot Me, Pussy Riot A Punk Prayer Julia Wong  Hercules, Extract Mark Yoshikawa  The Hunger Games Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2, The Tree of Life, Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Karen Asano-Myers  Star Wars The Force Awakens, 42 Pierce Austin  Concussion, After Earth Julie Dartnell  The Grand Budapest Hotel, Les Misrables Beatrice De Alba  Away We Go, Frida Dave Elsey  Mr. Holmes, The Wolfman Camille Friend  The Hateful Eight, Django Unchained Anita Gibson  Beyond the Lights, Top Five Giorgio Gregorini  The Impossible, Apocalypto Sin Grigg  The Revenant, Ex Machina Norma Hill-Patton  X-Men Days of Future Past, The Company You Keep Duncan Jarman  The Revenant, Rush Love Larson  The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, The Girl Who Played with Fire Angela Levin  Cake, Horrible Bosses Ivana Primorac  Anna Karenina, The Reader Beverly Jo Pryor  Straight Outta Compton, Selma Jan Sewell  The Danish Girl, The Theory of Everything Maurizio Silvi  The Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge Heba Thorisdottir  The Hateful Eight, Bridesmaids Lesley Vanderwalt  Mad Max Fury Road, The Great Gatsby Eva von Bahr  The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Music Lesley Barber  The Moth Diaries, Los Locos Wendy Blackstone  Whitey United States of America v. James J. Bulger, To Be Heard Mary J. Blige  The Help, Precious Based on the Novel Push' by Sapphire Kathryn Bostic  Dear White People, The New Black Carl Davis  The Understudy, Scandal Joseph S. DeBeasi  The Revenant, Sicario Joanie Diener  Merchants of Doubt, The Skulls Fitzgerald Diggs RZA  Django Unchained, The Man with the Iron Fists Germaine Franco  Dope, Mr. and Mrs. Smith Sia Furler  Zootopia, Fifty Shades of Grey Peter Golub  Audrey, Countdown to Zero Amanda Goodpaster  Pitch Perfect 2, Diary of a Wimpy Kid Tanya Noel Hill  Ant-Man, Chef Deborah Lurie  Safe Haven, Dear John Heather McIntosh  Z for Zachariah, Honeymoon Marcus Miller  About Last Night, Deliver Us from Eva Antonio Pinto  Amy, Senna Raphael Saadiq  Epic, Love and Basketball Jim Schultz  Black Mass, Inglourious Basterds Del Spiva  Fury, Prometheus Taura Stinson  Rio 2, Black Nativity Joseph Trapanese  Straight Outta Compton, Nightcrawler Shigeru Umebayashi  The Grandmaster, 2046 Fernando Velzquez  Crimson Peak, Mama Will.i.am  The Great Gatsby, Rio Marcelo Zarvos  Rock the Kasbah, The Beaver, Producers Beln Atienza  Out of the Dark, The Impossible Amy Baer  A Storm in the Stars, Last Vegas David Barron  Cinderella, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2 Ram Bergman  Don Jon, Looper Virginie Besson-Silla  Lucy, The Lady Fernando Bovaira  Biutiful, The Sea Inside Anne Carey  Mr. Holmes, The Savages Debra Martin Chase  Sparkle, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Bonnie Curtis  Albert Nobbs, Minority Report Susan Downey  The Judge, Sherlock Holmes Ed Guiney  Room, Frank Paul E. Hall  Peeples, For Colored Girls Rachael Horovitz  Maggie's Plan, Moneyball Mark Huffam  The Martian, Exodus Gods and Kings Elizabeth Karlsen  Carol, Made in Dagenham Gail Katz  Pawn Sacrifice, The Perfect Storm Amy Kaufman  Beasts of No Nation, Ain't Them Bodies Saints Neil Kopp  Green Room, Wendy and Lucy Kristie Macosko Krieger  Bridge of Spies, Lincoln David Lancaster  Eye in the Sky, Whiplash Albert Lee  Chinese Zodiac, Let the Bullets Fly Roy Lee  The Lego Movie, Abduction Mynette Louie  Land Ho!, Cold Comes the Night Daniela Taplin Lundberg  Beasts of No Nation, The Kids Are All Right Lori McCreary  The Magic of Belle Isle, Invictus Edward L. McDonnell  Sicario, Insomnia Jamie Patricof  Mississippi Grind, Blue Valentine Amanda Posey  Brooklyn, An Education Heather Rae  The Dry Land, Frozen River Alexander Rodnyansky  Leviathan, Stalingrad Esther Garca Rodrguez  Wild Tales, The Skin I Live In Anish Savjani  Green Room, Meek's Cutoff Allison Shearmur  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Cinderella Michael Sugar  Spotlight, The Fifth Estate Robert Teitel  Barbershop The Next Cut, Men of Honor Rodrigo Teixeira  The Witch, Mistress America Nina Yang Bongiovi  Dope, Fruitvale Station, Public Relations Michael S. Agulnek Marina Bailey Jacqueline L. Bazan Stephen D. Bruno Cassandra O. Butcher Zachary Eller Linda Guerrero Barry Dale Johnson Kate Lee Amy Mastriona R.J. Millard Kelly Bush Novak Fumiko Kitahara Otto Jack Pan Terra Potts Arnold Robinson David Stern Lisa Taback Jean-Pierre Vincent David S. Waldman Ryan Werner Katherine Willing, Short Films and Feature Animation Al Abreu  Boy and the World, Cosmic Boy Line K. Andersen  The Croods, Monsters vs Aliens Bruce Anderson  Rio 2, Rio Graham Annable  The Boxtrolls, ParaNorman Guillaume Aretos  Puss in Boots, Shrek the Third Serena Armitage  Stutterer, Scorned Sanjay Bakshi  The Good Dinosaur, Monsters University Maxwell Boas  Kung Fu Panda 3, Rise of the Guardians Lydia Bottegoni  Hotel Transylvania, Surf's Up Rebecca Wilson Bresee  Zootopia, Frozen Mark Burton  Shaun the Sheep Movie, Gnomeo  Juliet Chris Butler  ParaNorman, Coraline Clment Calvet  Cafard, Song of the Sea Tom Cardone  Rio 2, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! Marci Carlin  The Soul of Nashville, Human Destiny Galen Tan Chu  Epic, Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs Benjamin Cleary  Love Is a Sting, Stutterer Pam Coats  Gnomeo  Juliet, Mulan Melissa Beth Cobb  Kung Fu Panda 3, Kung Fu Panda 2 Deborah Cook  The Boxtrolls, ParaNorman Jamie Oliver Donoughue  Shok, Life on the Line Renato Dos Anjos  Wreck-It Ralph, Bolt Jeff Draheim  Frozen, The Princess and the Frog Karen Dufilho  Duet, For the Birds Pato Escala  Bear Story Katie Fico  Zootopia, Feast Michael Fong  Inside Out, Toy Story 3 Lori Forte  Epic, Ice Age Continental Drift Oorlagh George  The Shore Jonathan Gibbs  Turbo, The Croods Steven Goldberg  Frozen, Tangled Judith Gruber-Stitzer  Wild Life, When the Day Breaks Jorge R. Gutierrez  The Book of Life, Carmelo Jane Hartwell  The Croods, Madagascar Georgina Hayns  The Boxtrolls, ParaNorman Janet Healy  Minions, Despicable Me 2 Tang K. Heng  Kung Fu Panda 2, Kung Fu Panda Jon W.S. Huertas  The Box, Lone Raman Hui  Monster Hunt, Shrek the Third Claire Jennings  Coraline, Father and Daughter Yong Duk Jhun  The Croods, Shrek Forever After Sahim Omar Kalifa  Bad Hunter, Baghdad Messi Scott Kersavage  Zootopia, Wreck-It Ralph Basil Khalil  Ave Maria, Shooter Michael Knapp  Epic, Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs Robert Kondo  The Dam Keeper, La Luna Shawn Krause  Inside Out, Cars 2 Max Lang  Room on the Broom, The Gruffalo Nicolas Marlet  Kung Fu Panda 3, How to Train Your Dragon 2 Steve Martino  The Peanuts Movie, Ice Age Continental Drift Dale Mayeda  Planes Fire  Rescue, Frozen Brian McLean  The Boxtrolls, ParaNorman Mike Mitchell  Alvin and the Chipmunks Chipwrecked, Shrek Forever After Joe Moshier  Penguins of Madagascar, How to Train Your Dragon 2 James Ford Murphy  Lava, Cars Kiel Murray  Up, Cars Yoshiaki Nishimura  When Marnie Was There, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Kyle Odermatt  Big Hero 6, Paperman Linda Campos Olszewski  Car-Ma', A Bad Hair Day Gabriel Osorio  Bear Story, Residuos Sanjay Patel  Sanjay's Super Team, Tokyo Mater Martin Pope  Room on the Broom, Chico  Rita Christian Potalivo  The New Tenants, The Pig Tina Price  Dinosaur, Fantasia/2000 Peter Ramsey*  Rise of the Guardians, Monsters vs Aliens Denise Ream  The Good Dinosaur, Cars 2 Julie Roy  Carface, Kali the Little Vampire Damon Russell  Curfew, Brink William Salazar  Kung Fu Panda 3, Monsters vs Aliens Scott Santoro  Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Flushed Away Katherine Sarafian  Brave, Lifted Kent Seki  Rocky and Bullwinkle, Megamind Osnat Shurer  One Man Band, Boundin' Mireille Soria  Home, Madagascar 3 Europe's Most Wanted Richard Starzak  Shaun the Sheep Movie, A Matter of Loaf and Death Michael D. Surrey  The Princess and the Frog, The Lion King Galyn Susman  Ratatouille, Toy Story 2 Imogen Sutton  Prologue, The Thief and the Cobbler Dice Tsutsumi  The Dam Keeper, Monsters University Nora Twomey  Song of the Sea, The Secret of Kells Pablo Valle  How to Train Your Dragon 2, Turbo Michael Venturini  The Good Dinosaur, Toy Story 3 Pierre-Olivier Vincent  How to Train Your Dragon 2, How to Train Your Dragon Patrick Vollrath  Everything Will Be Okay Alles Wird Gut, The Jacket Die Jacke Dan Wagner  Kung Fu Panda 3, Kung Fu Panda 2 Koji Yamamura  Muybridge's Strings, Mt. Head Hiromasa Yonebayashi  When Marnie Was There, The Secret World of Arrietty Raymond Zibach  Kung Fu Panda 3, Sinbad Legend of the Seven Seas, Sound Pud Cusack  Free State of Jones, The Mask of Zorro Susan Dawes  Deadpool, Wild Chris Duesterdiek  The Revenant, Elysium Tammy Fearing  Trainwreck, Bridesmaids Roberto Fernandez  St. Vincent, Drive Eric Flickinger  The Big Short, World War Z Gabriel Gutirrez  Automata, Mama Matthew Harrison  Paper Towns, The Maze Runner Nina Hartstone  The Book Thief, Gravity Michael Hertlein  The Hateful Eight, American Hustle Paul Hsu  Spotlight, Salt George Lara  Chi-Raq, Spotlight Anna MacKenzie  Spectre, Prometheus John G. Marquis  Godzilla, Beautiful Creatures James Harley Mather  Mission Impossible  Rogue Nation, Sherlock Holmes Chuck Michael  Mad Max Fury Road, X-Men Days of Future Past Timothy Karl Nielsen  Racing Extinction, War Horse Eric Norris  Unbroken, Man of Steel Ben Osmo  Mad Max Fury Road, Happy Feet Two Eliza Paley  Miles Ahead, Carol Glenfield Payne  Beasts of No Nation, Blue Jasmine Michele Perrone  The Revenant, Straight Outta Compton Lisa Pinero  Steve Jobs, Fury Mac Ruth  The Martian, World War Z Christopher Scarabosio  Star Wars The Force Awakens, The Grand Budapest Hotel Paul P. Soucek  Fright Night, Michael Clayton Nancy Nugent Title  Spy, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Richard Toenes  Iron Man 3, Warrior Todd Toon  The Revenant, The Princess and the Frog Bernard Weiser  American Hustle, The Hurt Locker David White  Mad Max Fury Road, The Railway Man Byron Wilson  Black Mass, True Grit Matthew R. Wood  Star Wars The Force Awakens, WALL-E Tams Znyi  Son of Saul, Delta, Visual Effects Kevin Baillie  The Walk, Transformers Age of Extinction Sara Bennett  Ex Machina, Hercules Theo Bialek  The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Smurfs 2 Richard Bluff  The Big Short, Unbroken Steve Cremin  Hail, Caesar!, The Hunger Games Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2 Lindy Wilson De Quattro  Pacific Rim, Mission Impossible  Ghost Protocol Adrian de Wet  The Hunger Games Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2, The Hunger Games Catching Fire Matt Dessero  Jupiter Ascending, Divergent Deak Ferrand  By the Sea, Lucy Ronald Frankel  Gods of Egypt, Riddick John Gibson  X-Men Days of Future Past, Snow White and the Huntsman Martin Hill  The Hunger Games Mockingjay  Part 2, Furious Seven Bruce L. 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