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Atsuko Ishizuka, Mari Okada, Masaaki Yuasa, Kōji Yakusho, More Invited to Oscars' Academy

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its list of hip invitations on Monday. The list includes 487 invitations with 44% extended to women, 41% extended to "underrepresented ethnic/racial communities," and 56% from 56 countries and territories outside the United States.

The Academy extended invitations to the following people involved with Japanese content:

• Goodbye, Don Glees! director)
• Maquia director)
• Mind Game director)
• Ryo Orikasa (Miserable Miracle, Datum Point director)
• Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy: Siege executive producer)
• In This Corner of the World assistant director)
• Ikimono-san director)
• Godzilla Minus One visual effects)
• Kiyoko Shibuya (Godzilla Minus One visual effects director)
• Masaki Takahashi (Godzilla Minus One visual effects)
• Takashi Yamazaki (Godzilla Minus One director, screenplay, visual effects)
• Kōji Yakusho (Perfect Days actor)
• The Boy and the Heron editor)
• When Marnie Was There editor)
• Cream Lemon cinematographer)
• Takuma Takasaki (Perfect Days writer)

This year's list includes 71 Oscar award nominees, including 19 winners.

Tatsuji Nojima, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi, and Takashi Yamazaki won the Best Visual Effects award for Godzilla Minus One in this year's 96th Academy Awards.

The Academy invited Fusako Yusaki ("The Rose of the Winds", "Winter Days" claymation shorts) in 2020.

Sources: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Hollywood Reporter (Scott Feinberg)