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.