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Sayoko Kinoshita, Michiru Oshima, More Invited to Oscars' Academy
posted on by Adriana Hazra
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its list of hip invitations on Tuesday. The list includes 819 invitations with 45% extended to women, 36% extended to "underrepresented ethnic/racial communities," and 49% extended to professionals from international film industries across 68 countries.
The number of invitations is and last year's 842 invitations. The invitations are part of a series of new hip rules to promote diversity in the Academy's ranks after 2016's nominations led to a backlash against the perceived lack of diversity among nominees. The Academy initiated the changes in January 2016 with the intent to radically diversify its hip by the year 2020.
The Academy extended invitations to the following people involved with Japanese content:
- Cinematographer GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka series.
- Cinematographer Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler film.
- Music Composer Little Witch Academia, among many others.
- Screenwriter Pica-don and A Little Journey. She founded the first international animation festival in Asia (in Hiroshima) in 1985, and she is the president of the Association Internationale du Film d'Animation (ASIFA), and ASIFA-Japan.
- Animator Fusako Yusaki. Yusaki, while born in Japan, has lived in Italy for more than 50 years, and is an award-winnng pioneer in claymation. Her works include commercials, films, and children's television programmes, as well as clay animation ments for the liqueur Fernet-Branca, and the TV character Peo the blue dog. Some of her claymation works include the The Rose of the Winds and Winter Days shorts.
As part of the "next phase" of its equity and inclusion initiative, the Academy announced on June 12 that the Best Picture category will be set at 10 nominees from the 94th Academy Awards (with the ceremony taking place in 2022) onward. Other parts of the next phase include "[encouraging] equitable hiring practices and representation on and off screen" and creating a task force to develop and implement new representation and inclusion standards for Oscars eligibility.
The Academy ABC Television Network have decided that the ceremony will be broadcast on April 25, 2021. The Academy also announced that it is shifting some dates for the awards' eligibility period. The deadline for Animated Feature Film is December 1. The Academy will announce the nominees on March 15, 2021.
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Updated: This article has expanded the profiles of each of the people who have been invited to the Academy.
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