842 new members have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Half of the new invitees to the film academy are women and 29% people of color. The Academy has thereby doubled its percentage of nonwhite members over the last four years. In 2015, people of color accounted for 8% and in 2019, based on these new invites, that percentage has gone up to 16% If 95% of the invites are accepted, which should be the case, then the film academy will number more than 9,000 members.
And they will still get the winners wrong.
Remember when, back in August, we learned “The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth” would be playing in only around 350 U.S. theaters, "maybe fewer"? Well, it's fewer. A lot fewer.