Academy invites new members, achieves gender parity in 2019

New Delhi, July 02 (ANI): The Academy of motion Pictures Arts and Sciences revealed their class of 842 new members from different countries. The group announced that half of the members invited to join the Academy are women. The organisation also disclosed that 29 per cent of the new invitees are people of colour. If those people accept the invites, the Academy will have double the percentage of non-white people in their ranks in four years, reported Variety. The organisation also disclosed that 29 percent of the invites are people of colour. New members include 'Crazy Rich Asians' fame director Jon Chu, actors Winston Duke and Gemma Chan, and screenwriters Chinonye Chukwu, Park Young-soo and Ryo Sakaguchi. A new member in the acting branch includes Lady Gaga, after her commendable performance in 'A Star Is Born', Tom Holland, Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, Sterling K. Brown, Marina De Tavira, Will Poulter and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. Other composers include Michael Abels, Nathan Barr, K