The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited 178 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures to join the organization. Those who accept the invitation will be the only additions in 2011 to the Academy’s roster of members.
“These individuals are among the best filmmakers working in the industry today,” said Academy president Tom Sherak. “Their talent and creativity have entertained moviegoers around the world, and I welcome each of them to our ranks.”
The Academy’s membership policies would have allowed a maximum of 211 new members in 2011, but as in other recent years, several branch committees endorsed fewer candidates than were proposed to them. Voting membership in the organization has now held steady at just under 6,000 members since 2003.
In an unprecedented gesture, the list of new members includes documentary filmmaker Tim Hetherington, who was killed in action in Libya in April. Hetherington had been a 2010 nominee for his film Restrepo, but died prior to the Academy’s spring meetings to select new members. The documentary branch proposed that Hetherington’s name be included among the year’s invitees. The governors agreed.
Additionally, the Academy invited John Coffey, Risa Gertner and Robert C. Rosenthal to associate membership. Associate members are not represented on the Board and do not have Academy Award voting privileges. New members will be welcomed into the Academy at an invitation-only reception in September.
The 2011 invitees are:
Actors
Russell Brand – Arthur, Get Him to the Greek
Gerard Butler – The Ugly Truth, 300
Vincent Cassel – Black Swan, Eastern Promises
Robbie Coltrane – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Mona Lisa
Bradley Cooper – Limitless, The Hangover
John Corbett – Sex and the City 2, My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Rosemarie DeWitt – The Company Men, Rachel Getting Married
Peter Dinklage – Find Me Guilty, The Station Agent
David Duchovny – Things We Lost in the Fire, The X-Files
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network, The Squid and the Whale
Jennifer Garner – Arthur, Juno
John Hawkes – Winter’s Bone, The Perfect Storm
Thomas Jane – The Mist, The Thin Red Line
Nastassja Kinski – An American Rhapsody, Tess
Beyonce Knowles – Dreamgirls, Austin Powers in Goldmember
Mila Kunis – Black Swan, Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Jennifer Lawrence – Winter’s Bone, The Burning Plain
Tea Leoni – Ghost Town, Spanglish
Anthony Mackie – The Hurt Locker, Million Dollar Baby
Lesley Manville – Another Year, Topsy-Turvy
Rooney Mara – A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Social Network
Dominic Monaghan – X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Connie Nielsen – Brothers, Gladiator
Ellen Page – Inception, Juno
Wes Studi – Avatar, The Last of the Mohicans
Mia Wasikowska – Jane Eyre, The Kids Are All Right
Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom, Cosi
Animators
Geefwee Boedoe – Let’s Pollute, Monsters, Inc.
Alessandro Carloni – How to Train Your Dragon, Over the Hedge
Sylvain Chomet – The Illusionist, The Triplets of Belleville
Jakob Hjort Jensen – How to Train Your Dragon, Flushed Away
Biljana Labovic – The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger, Idiots and Angels
Tomm Moore – The Secret of Kells, Backwards Boy
Teddy Newton – Day & Night, Ratatouille
Bob Peterson – Up, Finding Nemo (also invited to the Writers Branch)
Javier Recio Gracia – The Lady and the Reaper, The Missing Lynx
Andrew Ruhemann – The Lost Thing, City Paradise
Kristof Serrand – How to Train Your Dragon, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Shaun Tan – The Lost Thing, Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!
Simon Wells – Mars Needs Moms, The Prince of Egypt
Art Directors
Anahid Nazarian – The Virgin Suicides, The Godfather, Part III
Lauren E. Polizzi – Cowboys & Aliens, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
At-Large
George Aguilar
Barry Bernardi
Christopher Dodd
Ted Gagliano
James L. Honore
Dawn Hudson
Beverly Pasterczyk
Randall Poster
Ric Robertson
David Schnuelle
Randy Spendlove
Beverly Joanna Wood
Casting Directors
Nina Gold – The King’s Speech, Jane Eyre
Jina Jay – The Reader, Layer Cake
Lora Kennedy – The Town, Syriana
Cinematographers
Frank Byers – Illegal Tender, Boxing Helena
Patrick Cady – Lottery Ticket, Broken Bridges
Danny Cohen – The King’s Speech, Pirate Radio
Lukas Ettlin – The Lincoln Lawyer, Middle Men
Steven Fierberg – Love & Other Drugs, Secretary
Barry Markowitz – Crazy Heart, Sling Blade
Charles Minsky – Valentine’s Day, Pretty Woman
Lawrence Sher – The Hangover, Garden State
Eric Steelberg – Up in the Air, (500) Days of Summer
Costume Designers
Odile Dicks-Mireaux – An Education, The Constant Gardener
Sarah Edwards – Salt, Michael Clayton
Danny Glicker – Up in the Air, Milk
Directors
Gregg Araki – Kaboom, Nowhere
Susanne Bier – In a Better World, After the Wedding
Neil Burger – Limitless, The Illusionist
Lisa Cholodenko – The Kids Are All Right, Laurel Canyon (also invited to the Writers Branch)
Debra Granik – Winter’s Bone, Down to the Bone (also invited to the Writers Branch)
Tom Hooper – The King’s Speech, The Damned United
John Cameron Mitchell – Rabbit Hole, Shortbus
Yojiro Takita – Departures, Himitsu
Documentary
Jon Alpert – China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province, Lock-up: The Prisoners
of Rikers Island
Amir Bar-Lev – The Tillman Story, Fighter
Lesley Chilcott – Waiting for ‘Superman’, It Might Get Loud
Carl Deal – Capitalism: A Love Story, Trouble the Water
Charles Ferguson – Inside Job, No End in Sight
Tim Hetherington – Restrepo (posthumous)
Sebastian Junger – Restrepo
Thomas Lennon – The Warriors of Qiugang, The Blood of Yingzhou District
Diane Weyermann – Waiting for ‘Superman’, Food, Inc.
Ruby Yang – The Blood of Yingzhou District, The Warriors of Qiugang
Executives
William J. Damaschke
Richard M. Fay
Donna Langley
Leslie Moonves
Vanessa L. Morrison
Bill Pohlad
Rich Ross
Jeff Small
Thomas Tull
Film Editors
Tariq Anwar – The King’s Speech, American Beauty
Naomi Geraghty – Limitless, Reservation Road
Jon Harris – 127 Hours, Layer Cake
Darren Holmes – How to Train Your Dragon, The Iron Giant
Pamela Martin – The Fighter, Little Miss Sunshine
Joel Negron – Transformers: Dark of the Moon, The Karate Kid
Terilyn A. Shropshire – Jumping the Broom, Eve’s Bayou
Angus Wall – The Social Network, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Andrew Weisblum – The Black Swan, The Wrestler
Live Action Short Films
Luke Matheny – God of Love, Earano
Makeup Artists and Hairstylists
Judy Chin – Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream
Kathrine Gordon – 3:10 to Yuma, Ocean’s Eleven
Trefor Proud – W., Topsy-Turvy
Cindy Jane Williams – Burlesque, Hancock
Wesley Wofford – Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, A Beautiful Mind
Music
Terence Blanchard – Inside Man, Malcolm X
Fernand Bos – Crazy Heart, Cold Mountain
Graeme Revell – Darfur Now, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Producers
Iain Canning – Oranges and Sunshine, The King’s Speech
Cean Chaffin – The Social Network, Fight Club
Kevin Feige – Thor, Iron Man
Gary Goetzman – Where the Wild Things Are, Mamma Mia!
Sisse Graum Jorgensen – In a Better World, After the Wedding
Jeffrey Levy-Hinte – The Kids Are All Right, Laurel Canyon
Todd Lieberman – The Fighter, The Proposal
Robert Lorenz – Letters from Iwo Jima, Mystic River
Celine Rattray – The Kids Are All Right, Grace Is Gone
Emile Sherman – The King’s Speech, Candy
Emma Thomas – Inception, The Dark Knight
Gareth Unwin – The King’s Speech, Exam
Production Designers
Howard Cummings – I Love You, Beth Cooper, John Grisham’s The Rainmaker
Therese DePrez – Black Swan, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Guy Hendrix Dyas – Inception, The Brothers Grimm
Jess Gonchor – True Grit, Capote
Jane Musky – Something Borrowed, Finding Forrester
Eve Stewart – The King’s Speech, Topsy-Turvy
Public Relations
Susan Ciccone
Alissa Grayson
Jeffrey Hall
Jill Ann Jones
Mark Markline
Carmelo Pirrone
Ira Rubenstein
David Schneiderman
Loren Schwartz
Lance Volland
Set Decorators
Judy Farr – The King’s Speech, Death at a Funeral
Gene Serdena – The Fighter, House of Sand and Fog
Sound
Andrew DeCristofaro – Hall Pass, Crazy Heart
Joe Dorn – The Wolfman, Spider-Man 3
Marc Fishman – Bridesmaids, Crash
Lora Hirschberg – Inception, The Dark Knight
Chris Jargo – Robin Hood, American Gangster
John Midgley – The King’s Speech, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Ed Novick – Inception, The Dark Knight
Hammond Peek – King Kong, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Brian Vessa – Nemesis, Lambada
Mark Weingarten – The Social Network, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Visual Effects
Tim Alexander – Rango, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Rob Bredow – Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Polar Express
Tim Burke – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Gladiator
Peter Chesney – No Country for Old Men, Men in Black
Paul Franklin – Inception, The Dark Knight
Kevin Tod Haug – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Quantum of Solace
Florian Kainz – Mission: Impossible III, The Perfect Storm
Marshall Krasser – Iron Man 2, Titanic
Sean Phillips – Alice in Wonderland, The Polar Express
Peter G. Travers – Watchmen, The Matrix Reloaded
Brian Van’t Hul – Coraline, I, Robot
Mark H. Weingartner – Sex and the City 2, Inception
Writers
Stuart Blumberg – The Kids Are All Right, Keeping the Faith
Lisa Cholodenko – The Kids Are All Right, Laurel Canyon (also invited to the Directors Branch)
Debra Granik – Winter’s Bone, Down to the Bone (also invited to the Directors Branch)
Karen McCullah Lutz – The Ugly Truth, Legally Blonde
Aline Brosh McKenna – 27 Dresses, The Devil Wears Prada
Bob Peterson – Up, Finding Nemo (also invited to the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch)
David Rabe – The Firm, Casualties of War
Anne Rosellini – Winter’s Bone
David Seidler – The King’s Speech, The King & I
Scott Silver – The Fighter, 8 Mile
Kirsten Smith – The Ugly Truth, Legally Blonde
Aaron Sorkin – The Social Network, A Few Good Men
Daniel Waters – Batman Returns, Heathers
