The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a list of new members and invited four Indian film personalities – Anurag Kashyap, Anupam Kher, Zoya Akhtar, and Ritesh Batra, to join the organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A total of 842 artists from as many as 59 countries were invited to join The Academy this year. Achieving a new level of gender parity, the organisation announced that half of the members invited to join the Academy are women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bollywood veteran actor Anupam Kher has been invited in the actors’ branch. He currently stars in the American medical drama series ‘New Amsterdam’ as a neurologist named Dr. Vijay Kapoor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ace filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who has helmed films like ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’, ‘Dev.D’, ‘Lust Stories’, expressed his happiness and tweeted “#WeAreTheAcademy” attaching the organisation’s tweet. Kashyap has been invited in the short films and feature animation branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ritesh Batra, the director behind Irrfan Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Nimrat Kaur’s ‘The Lunchbox’ Nawazuddin and Sanya Malhotra-starrer ‘Photograph’, has been invited to join the writers’ branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among the other members of Indian descent are British actor Archie Panjabi of ‘The Good Wife’ fame and Canadian actor-director Nisha Ganatra who has helmed ‘Chutney Popcorn’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zoya Akhtar, who has directed movies like ‘Luck By Chance’, ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’, ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’ and ‘Gully Boy’, has also been invited to join the directors’ branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indian visual effects supervisor Srinivas Mohan has also been invited by the group. Sherry Bharda, YRF Studios’ Creative Supervisor has also been invited for the visual effects branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2018, 20 Indian film personalities, including Shah Rukh Khan, Naseeruddin Shah, Aditya Chopra, Ali Fazal, Anil Kapoor, and Tabu, were invited to join the organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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