The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences don extend invitations to popular Nollywood actor Richard Mofe-Damijo, AKA RMD, writer Kunle Afolayan and Shola Dada plus director C.J. “Fiery” Obasi and producer Jadesola Osiberu to join di organization for 2023.
Dem make up a list of 398 artists and executives wey di Academy invite as new members for 2023.
Also invited dis year to di music branch na ogbonge musician Taylor Swift and Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, “The Weeknd”.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, AMPAS, (wey pipo sabi simply as the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) na professional honorary organization wey dia goal na to advance di arts and sciences of motion pictures.
Di Academy say membership selection dey based on professional qualifications, wit a commitment to representation, inclusion and equity.
Inside post for social media, RMD react say na: “Best Birthday present wey come early!”
Kunle Afolayan on im own part say na: “Another opportunity to serve👌🏾”
While Shola Dada post say she dey: “Super thankful to God for dis honour and privilege.”
Dem no go be di first Nigerians wey di Academy go invite.
For 2021, dem invite ogbonge Nigerian filmmaker Mo Abudu, bin get invitation to join di Academy for di producers category.
Di full list of di 2023 Academy new members invitees
ACTORS
Zar Amir-Ebrahimi
Sakura Ando
Selma Blair
Marsha Stephanie Blake
Austin Butler
Raúl Castillo
Chang Chen
Ram Charan
Kerry Condon
Robert John Davi
Dolly De Leon
Martina Gedeck
Bill Hader
Nicholas Hoult
Stephanie Hsu
Tin Lok Koo
Vicky Krieps
Joanna Kulig
Lashana Lynch
A Martinez
Noémie Merlant
Paul Mescal
Richard Mofe-Damijo
Keke Palmer
Park Hae-il
Ke Huy Quan
NT Rama Rao Jr.
Paul Reiser
Rosa Salazar
CASTING DIRECTORS
John Buchan
Pauline Hansson
Nina Haun
Lissy Holm
Jeanette Klintberg
Jason Knight
Alexandra Montag
Pat Moran
Mathilde Snodgrass
Rachel G. Tenner
CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Jolanta Dylewska
James Friend
Martin Gschlacht
Florian Hoffmeister
Benjamin Kracun
K.K. Senthil Kumar
Tommy Maddox-Upshaw
Kate McCullough
Andrij Parekh
Christopher Ross
María Secco
Virginie Surdej
COSTUME DESIGNERS
Trisha Biggar
Alex Bovaird
Bob Buck
Monika Buttinger
Pam Downe
Deirdra Elizabeth Govan
Shirley Kurata
Linda Muir
Annie Symons
DIRECTORS
Colm Bairéad*
Abner Benaim
Edward Berger*
Antonio Campos*
Anthony Chen
Lukas Dhont*
Andreas Dresen
Nils Gaup
Rashaad Ernesto Green
Ana Katz*
Joseph Kosinski
Daniel Kwan*
Francisco Lombardi
Carlos López Estrada
Mounia Meddour
Santiago Mitre*
C.J. “Fiery” Obasi
Mani Ratnam
Anita Rocha da Silveira
Hiner Saleem
Daniel Scheinert*
Maria Schrader
Michael Showalter
Agnieszka Smoczyńska
Chaitanya Tamhane
DOCUMENTARY
Maxim Arbugaev
Evgenia Arbugaeva
Paul Barnes
Mark Becker
Alan Berliner
Tze Woon Chan
Sonya Childress
Lauren Cioffi
Erika Cohn
Patrick Creadon
Daniel Cross
Ally Derks
Andrés Di Tella
Lauren Domino
Lindsey Dryden
Katja Esson
Violet Du Feng
Jennifer Fox
Sonia Kennebeck
Teddy Leifer
Simon Lereng Wilmont
Petr Lom
Melanie Miller
Julia Nottingham
Ilja Roomans
Nancy Schwartzman
Joshua Seftel
Shaunak Sen
Daniel Sivan
Chris Smith
Corinne van Egeraat
Tyler H. Walk
Eden Wurmfeld
Debra Zimmerman
EXECUTIVES
Craig Alexander
Bela Bajaria
Stephen Basil-Jones
Racheline Benveniste
Sean Berney
Efe Egemen Cakarel
Peter Dodd
Tara Duncan
Zev Foreman
Jeffrey Goore
Amelia Louise Granger
Daniel Guando
Jessie Henderson
Ynon Kreiz
Ollie Madden
Shivani Pandya Malhotra
Janet Pierson
Shivani Rawat
Kent Sanderson
Guy Shani
Sarah Elizabeth Shepard
Jesse Sisgold
Jonathan Turell
Joana Vicente
Brian Stuart Weinstein
Paul Wiegard
Rob Williams
Tamara Y. Woolfork
Miri Yoon
David Zaslav
FILM EDITORS
Michael Aaglund
Joyce Arrastia
Melissa Bretherton
Sarah Broshar
Sven Budelmann
Alain Dessauvage
Christopher Donaldson
Agnieszka Glińska
Craig Hayes
Charlotte Munch Bengtsen
Langdon Page
Paul Rogers
Ken Schretzmann
Matt Villa
MAKEUP ARTISTS AND HAIRSTYLISTS
Jason Baird
Annemarie Bradley
Anne Carroll
Linda Eisenhamerová
Kimberly Felix
Thomas Foldberg
Erzsébet Forgács
Jules Holdren
Jaime Leigh McIntosh
Alfredo Mora
Nathalie Tissier
Luca Vannella
Angie Wells
MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
David Burke
Sungmi Choi
Kelly Dalton
Marian Lee Dicus
Sarah Eaton
Emily Feingold
Kimberly Flaster
Stephanie Frederic
Antonio Gimenez-Palazon
Patricia Gonzalez
Mindy Hamilton
Claire A. Heath Nobel
Danielle Kupchak
Julie Roberta La’Bassiere
Christopher Miller
Scott Mitsui
Keri Lynn Moore
Stefanie Marie Napoli
Jeremy Radisich
Jim R. Rodriguez
Tammie Rosen
Julie Siegel
Melissa Stone
Renee Tsao
Kelly Turner
MUSIC
Jean Michel Bernard
Rafiq Bhatia
Alain Boublil
David Buckley
David Byrne
Dominick George Certo
Chandrabose
Ian Chang
Anne-Kathrin Elisabeth Dern
Anna Drubich
M.M. Keeravaani
Penka Kouneva
Ryan Lott
Zeltia Montes
Starr Parodi
Taylor Swift
Dara Taylor
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye “The Weeknd”
PRODUCERS
Desray Armstrong
Daniel Birman Ripstein
Philippe Bober
Keith Calder
Allison Rose Carter
Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly
Jonas Dornbach
Andrew Goldman
Malte Grunert
Karan Johar
Axel Vladimir Kuschevatzky
Daniel Kwan*
Karen Lunder
Kyle Martin
Patrick McCormick
Jordana Mollick
Giancarlo Nasi
Jadesola Osiberu
Mark A. Radcliffe
Thomas Robsahm
Siddharth Roy Kapur
Daniel Scheinert*
Jonathan Wang
Lila Yacoub
PRODUCTION DESIGN
David Allday
Samantha Avila
Tom Brown
Richard Buoen
Diana Burton
Barry Michael Chusid
Dylan Cole
Sabu Cyril
Bill Darby
Klaus Darrelmann
Darrin Denlinger
Raffaella Giovannetti
Christian M. Goldbeck
Ernestine Hipper
Andrew H. Leung
Karen Murphy
Ben Procter
Kave Quinn
Dean Sherriff
Laura Sode-Matteson
Amy Gail Wells
PRODUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY
Girish Balakrishnan
David Barrett
Allegra Anne Clegg
Celia D. Costas
Fernando de Goes
Daphne Dentz
Peter Doyle
Sara Duran-Singer
Gian Luca Farinelli
Dominic Glynn
Fritz Heinzle
Lin Oeding
Fatima Robinson
Kranti Sarma
Cynthia Slavens
Joachim Zell
SHORT FILMS AND FEATURE ANIMATION
Mahyar Abousaeedi
Tom Berkeley
Toni Bestard
Kimberley Browning
Alex Bulkley
Bruno Caetano
Dean Fleischer Camp
Kenneth A. Carlson
Trent Correy
Joel Bryan Crawford
Claire Dodgson
Fabian Driehorst
David DuLac
Maureen Fan
Tiffany Frances
João Gonzalez
Sara Gunnarsdóttir
Mark Gustafson
Travis Hathaway
David Jesteadt
Daniel Mark Jeup
Thomas Jordan
Charlie Mackesy
Ian Megibben
Cyrus Neshvad
Jaime Ray Newman
Richard O’Connor
Lachlan Pendragon
Jesús Pimentel Melo
Emmanuel-Alain Raynal
David Ryu
Nidia Santiago
Mónica Santos
Nelson Shin
Eirik Tveiten
Nathan Warner
Ross White
SOUND
Orin Junior Beaton
Guido Berenblum
Andrew Bock
Stéphane Bucher
Paul Timothy Carden
Lena Esquenazi
Arthur Fenn
Tracie Gallo
Lars Ginzel
Galen Goodpaster
Julian Howarth
Randall Lee Johnson
Leah Katz
Stefan Korte
Martin Wallis Kwok
Ensieh Maleki
Sean McCormack
Douglas Murray
Anthony Ortiz
Wayne Pashley
Mélissa Petitjean
Viktor Prášil
Lynn Sable
David Stanke
Markus Stemler
Duu-chih Tu
Javier Angel Umpierrez
Eliza Pollack Zebert
VISUAL EFFECTS
Gino Acevedo
James Lee Baker
A.J. Briones
Nick Crew
Jubin Dave
Pete Dionne
Arslan Elver
Markus Frank
Brian Gazdik
Seth Hill
Haresh Hingorani
Kamil Jafar
Arek Komorowski
Lana Lan
Woei Lee
Bryan Litson
Scott Macintyre
Alexandre Julien Millet
Marla Inez Newall
Jenni O’Byrne
Frank Petzold
Adriano Rinaldi
P.C. Sanath
Robert Winter
Florian Witzel
WRITERS
Kunle Afolayan
Colm Bairéad*
Nikole Beckwith
Edward Berger*
Antonio Campos*
Chung Seo-kyung
Marie Clements
Peter Craig
Shola Dada
Lukas Dhont*
Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Josh Friedman
Kazuo Ishiguro
Shunji Iwai
Ana Katz*
Todd Komarnicki
Ehren Kruger
Daniel Kwan*
Mariano Llinás
Justin Marks
Santiago Mitre*
Craig Pearce
Ewa Piaskowska
Daniel Scheinert*
Jack Thorne
Angelo Tijssens
Charlotte Wells
MEMBERS-AT-LARGE
Tracy Brennan
Rob Carlson
Sarah Clossey
Eric Garfinkel
John Garvey
Steven Gersh
Franklin Latt
Christian Muirhead
Richard Weitz
Ida Giovanna Ziniti
Source : BBC
