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Academy Once Again Invites Non-Member To Help Announce Nominees
For the fourth year in a row, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will cede one of their most anticipated moments of the year to someone who has not been invited to join their club.The...
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Which Of This Year’s Oscar Nominees Can Vote For Themselves?
Jennifer Lawrence gets an Oscar vote this year. Alicia Vikander does not.For the past several years, The Academy Members Project has quietly gone through the list of Oscar nominees and tried to sort...
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Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs' Statement On Diversity
Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs tweeted a statement on diversity today, which included promises for new recruitment for membership. We here at The Academy Members Project are thrilled at the...
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An Unnoticed Bit Of Brilliance In Cheryl Boone Isaacs’ Latest Statement
We’ve all been applauding Cheryl Boone Isaacs’ most recent statement promising changes to the membership of the Academy. But as someone who spends his days poring over lists of Oscar voters for The...
View ArticleAcademy’s Historic Action To Increase Diversity
Big news out of the Academy to increase diversity today. You can read their full statement on their website, but here are the main points as I understand them:Goal of doubling the number of women and...
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Go Read My Guest Post At Awards Daily!
Sasha Stone and Ryan Adams at Awards Daily were kind enough to let me do a guest post about the Academy’s branch statistics and the official count of the number of voters for this year’s Oscar...
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Which Of Sunday's Oscar Presenters Are Members Of The Academy -- And Which...
This Sunday, the Oscars are going to bring out a wide range of diverse presenters and performers to help compensate for the all-white lineup of their acting nominees.Since The Academy Members Project...
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Reminder: Check Your News Outlets For “Local Oscar Voter” Stories
Just a friendly reminder to all of our friends and readers of The Academy Members Project. Be sure to check out your local newspapers and tv channels this weekend. They often have human interest pieces...
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Where We Fail: The #OscarsSoWhite Deadline Few Are Paying Attention To
One of the most important Oscar deadlines of the year is coming up, but you wouldn’t know it from your twitter feed.March 24 is the Academy’s deadline for new membership proposals. It may not be as...
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The Academy Members Project Home
Welcome to The Academy Members Project: The largest public list of Oscar voters you’ll find on the internet!As of our most recent update on 6/2/2016, we have identified 5,605 Current Members - Over 78%...
View ArticleAcademy Invites 683 New Members!!!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their new invitations today, and we here at The Academy Members Project couldn’t be more excited!Check out the names of the 683 new invitees...
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BIG NEWS from The Academy Members Project
Dear Friends,I am planning a trip to Los Angeles to visit the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library from February 1 to 18, 2017, and just received word that I have been approved to access not only their...
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EXCLUSIVE: Which Of This Year’s Oscar Nominees Can Vote For Themselves? And...
Here’s your guide to which Oscar nominees are already members of the Academy, courtesy of The Academy Members Project: The largest public list of Oscar Voters you’ll find on the internet.The names...
View ArticleNotes from my trip to the Academy Library
I will eventually be using this post to record notes and commentary from my February 2017 trip to the Academy Library, including notes that are too long to place on the Members pages, or notes about...
View ArticleAcademy Members’ Legacy Gallery Plaques
One of the highlights of my recent trip to Los Angeles was the opportunity to see a series of 12 bronze plaques which list over 1,000 Academy members from the 1990’s who donated to the endowment...
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The Academy Members Project has now identified the names of over 85% of Oscar...
Exciting news today as The Academy Members Project crosses another threshold. We have now identified over 85% of current Oscar voters by name!I still have hundreds of pages of notes from my trip to the...
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The Academy Members Project has now identified the names of over 90% of Oscar...
Exciting news today as The Academy Members Project crosses another major threshold. We have now identified over 90% of current Oscar voters by name!But we’re not done yet. We promise to keep looking to...
View ArticleAcademy Branch History
The Academy is currently made up of 17 branches, but it began with only 5. The history of how the branches changed and expanded (and sometimes contracted) can make historical research like ours...
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Preparing for the Academy’s Upcoming Invitation Announcement
June is when the Academy traditionally publishes their list of new invitees. We’re expecting another large entering class, so I thought I’d take a moment now to review our process so that everyone...
View ArticleAcademy Invites 774 New Members!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their new invitations today, and we here at The Academy Members Project couldn’t be more excited!Check out the names of the 774 new invitees...
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The Academy Members Project has now identified 92% of all Oscar voters!
We crossed another threshold today. We’ve now identified 92% of current Oscar voters!Check out the full list of current and past AMPAS members that we have identified here..
View ArticleAcademy Invites 928 New Members!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their new invitations today, and we here at The Academy Members Project couldn’t be more excited!Check out the names of the 928 new invitees...
View ArticleAcademy Invites 842 New Members!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their new invitations today, and we here atThe Academy Members Project couldn’t be more excited!Check out the names of the 842 new invitees...
View ArticleAcademy Invites 819 New Members!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their new invitations today, and we here atThe Academy Members Project couldn’t be more excited!Check out the names of the 819 new invitees...
View ArticleAcademy Invites 395 New Members!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their new invitations today, and we here atThe Academy Members Project couldn’t be more excited!Check out the names of the 395 new invitees...
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