The sex video flight attendantAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, responding to criticism that its membership lacks diversity, announced June 29 that it is extending invitations to join the organization to 683 artists and executives — 41 percent of them people of color and 46 percent women —?who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to cinema.
Invitees include Hollywood veteran James Hong, whose acting credits go back more than 60 years; legendary Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai; up-and-coming Japanese American directors Cary Joji Fukunaga and Karyn Kusama; noted Japanese directors Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hirokazu Koreeda and Takeshi Kitano; playwright/screenwriter David Henry Hwang; animators Yoshiaki Nishimura and Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and documentary filmmakers Emiko Omori and Spencer Nakasako.
This year’s Oscars ceremony was controversial because all of the acting nominees were white. Additionally, while the lack of black representation was addressed during the program, Asian Pacific American groups slammed the Academy for allowing jokes about Asians to be broadcast.
Those invited in more than one branch (indicated by an asterisk) must choose one branch upon accepting membership.
Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2016. New members will be welcomed at an invitation-only reception in the fall.
Asian/Asian American invitees include:
Actors
James Hong (“Safe,” “Mulan”)
Daniel Dae Kim (“The Divergent Series: Insurgent,” “Crash”)
Tatsuya Nakadai (“Ran,” “Kagemusha”)
Freida Pinto (“Immortals,” “Slumdog Millionaire”)
Elizabeth Sung (“Memoirs of a Geisha,” “The Joy Luck Club”)
Sharmila Tagore (“Dhadkan,” “The World of Apu”)
Cinematographers
Peter Pau (“The Forbidden Kingdom,” “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon”)
Poon Hang-Sang (“Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster,” “Kung Fu Hustle”)
Nelson Yu Lik-Wai (“A Simple Life,” “24 City”)
Zhao Fei (“The Sun Also Rises,” “The Curse of the Jade Scorpion”)
Designers
Yoshihito Akatsuka (“The Left Ear,” “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale”)
Sue Chan (“Gone Girl,” “300: Rise of an Empire”)
Yohei Taneda (“Monster Hunt,” “The Hateful Eight”)
Directors
Cary Joji Fukunaga (“Beasts of No Nation,” “Jane Eyre”)
Hou Hsiao-Hsien (“The Assassin,” “Three Times”)
Naomi Kawase* (“Still the Water,” “The Mourning Forest”)
So Yong Kim (“For Ellen,” “In Between Days”)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (“Seventh Code,” “Pulse”)
Karyn Kusama (“Jennifer’s Body,” “Girlfight”)
Deepa Mehta (“Midnight’s Children,” “Water”)
Park Chan-wook* (“Stoker,” “Oldboy”)
James Wan (“The Conjuring,” “Saw”)
Documentary
Kazuo Hara (“A Dedicated Life,” “The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On”)
Asif Kapadia (“Amy,” “Senna”)
Anita Lee (“Stories We Tell,” “Everybody’s Children”)
Spencer Nakasako (“Refugee,” “A.K.A. Don Bonus”)
Emiko Omori (“Rabbit in the Moon,” “Regret to Inform”)
Trinh T. Minh-ha (“Forgetting Vietnam,” “Surname Viet, Given Name Nam”)
Jean Tsien (“Shut Up and Sing,” “Scottsboro: An American Tragedy”)
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (“Meru,” “Yossou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love”)
Wang Bing (“Three Sisters,” “West of the Tracks”)
Executives
Bonni Lee (Village Roadshow Pictures)
Film Editors
Troy Takaki (“Baggage Claim,” “The Bounty Hunter”)
Julia Wong (“Hercules,” “Extract”)
Mark Yoshikawa (“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Parts 1 and 2,” “The Tree of Life”)
Makeup Artists and Hair Stylists
Karen Asano-Myers (“Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “42”)
Music
Shigeru Umebayashi (“The Grandmaster,” “2046”)
Producers
Albert Lee (“Chinese Zodiac,” “Let the Bullets Fly”)
Roy Lee (“The Lego Movie,” “Abduction”)
Mynette Louie (“Land Ho!,” “Cold Comes the Night”)
Anish Savjani (“Green Room,” “Meek’s Cutoff”)
Nina Yang Bongiovi (“Dope,” “Fruitvale Station”)
Public Relations
Fumiko Kitahara Otto
Jack Pan
Short Films and Feature Animation
Sanjay Bakshi (“The Good Dinosaur,” “Monsters University”)
Galen Tan Chu (“Epic,” “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs”)
Michael Fong (“Inside Out,” “Toy Story 3”)
Tang K. Heng (“Kung Fu Panda,” “Kung Fu Panda 2”)
Raman Hui (“Monster Hunt,” “Shrek the Third”)
Yong Duk Jhun (“The Croods,” “Shrek Forever After”)
Robert Kondo (“The Dam Keeper,” “La Luna”)
Dale Mayeda (“Planes: Fire & Rescue,” “Frozen”)
Yoshiaki Nishimura (“When Marnie Was There,” “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya”)
Sanjay Patel (“Sanjay’s Super Team,” “Tokyo Mater”)
Kent Seki “(Rocky and Bullwinkle,” “Megamind”)
Dice Tsutsumi (“The Dam Keeper,” “Monsters University”)
Koji Yamamura (“Muybridge’s Strings,” “Mr. Head”)
Hiromasa Yonebayashi (“When Marnie Was There,” “The Secret World of Arrietty”)
Sound
Paul Hsu (“Spotlight,” “Salt”)
Writers
David Henry Hwang (“Possession,” “Golden Gate”)
Naomi Kawase* (“Still the Water,” “Firefly”)
Takeshi Kitano (“Outrage,” “Kikujiro”)
Hirokazu Kore-eda (“Like Father, Like Son,” “Nobody Knows”)
Lee Chang-dong (“Poetry,” “Oasis”)
Park Chan-wook* (“Thirst,” “Oldboy”)
Members-at-Large
Annie Chang
Jeff Imada
Stephanie A. Ito
Ravi D. Mehta
Sunny Park
Associates
Esther Chang
Phillip Sun
For a complete list, visit www.oscars.org/2016class.