The Academy declares annual list of invitees for membership

There are 276 names from the fraternity of Hollywood, including actors, directors, writers, cinematographers and editors, which have been announced by the Academy in its yearly list of invitees for its highly revered membership.

The list includes the names of actors like Jason Bateman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jennifer Lopez and Milla Jovovich as well as directors like Steve McQueen, Todd Phillipsand so on. The oldest everBest Actress nominee of the last year, Emmanuelle Riva also features on the list. In the crafts section too, a huge number of talents have been considered to make it to the members’ board of the Academy.

Academy president Hawk Koch told Variety,"The difference this year is we relaxed the quota system.” He added, "In the past eight or nine years, each branch could only bring in X amount of members. There were people each branch would have liked to get in but couldn’t. We asked them to be more inclusive of the best of the best, and each branch was excited, because they got to bring in the people who should be in the branch.” Here is the list of the invited Hollywood actors:

Actors

• Jason Bateman
• Miriam Colon
• Rosario Dawson
• Kimberly Elise
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Charles Grodin
• Rebecca Hall
• Lance Henriksen
• Jack Huston
• Milla Jovovich
• Lucy Liu
• Jennifer Lopez
• Alma Martinez
• Emily Mortimer
• Sandra Oh
• Paula Patton
• Michael Peña
• Emmanuelle Riva
• Jason Schwartzman
• Geno Silva
• Danny Trejo
• Chris Tucker

There are a lot of other talented directors, cinematographers, costume designers, designers, documentary makers, executives, film editors, make-up artists and hairstylists, music maestros, producers, public relation officers, short film and animated feature film makers, sound specialists, visual effects specialists, writers and other associates who have been honoured with the invitation.