Academy Extends Invitation to Its Membership

LOS ANGELES, CA - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 271 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy's membership in 2014.

This year's class of invitees represents some of the most talented, creative and passionate filmmakers working in our industry today, said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. Their contributions to film have entertained audiences around the world, and we are proud to welcome them to the Academy.

The 2014 invitees are:

Actors

Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips

Clancy Brown - The Hurricane, The Shawshank Redeption

Paul Dano - 12 Years a Slave, Prisoners

Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave, Shame

Ben Foster - Lone Survivor, Ain't Them Bodies Saints

Beth Grant - The Artist, No Country for Old Men

Clark Gregg - Much Ado about Nothing, Marvel's The Avengers

Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine, Happy-Go-Lucky

Josh Hutcherson - The Hunger Games, The Kids Are All Right

Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Enough Said, Planes

Kelly Macdonald - Brave, No Country for Old Men

Mads Mikkelsen - The Hunt, Casino Royale

Joel McKinnon Miller - Super 8, The Truman Show

Cillian Murphy - The Dark Knight Rises, Inception

Lupita Nyongo - Non-Stop, 12 Years a Slave

Rob Riggle - 21 Jump Street, The Hangover

Chris Rock - Grown Ups 2, Madagascar

June Squibb - Nebraska, About Schmidt

Jason Statham - Parker, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

David Strathairn - Lincoln, Good Night, and Good Luck.

Casting Directors

Douglas Aibel - The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Immigrant

Simone B r - The Monuments Men, The Book Thief

Kerry Barden - August: Osage County, Dallas Buyers Club

Nikki Barrett - The Railway Man, The Great Gatsby

Mark Bennett - Drinking Buddies, Zero Dark Thirty

Risa Bramon Garcia - Speed, Wall Street

Michelle Guish - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Nanny McPhee

Billy Hopkins - Lee Daniels' The Butler, Disconnect

Ros Hubbard - Romeo & Juliet, The Mummy

Allison Jones - The Way, Way Back, The Heat

Christine King - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Star

Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith

Beatrice Kruger - To Rome with Love, The American

Marci Liroff - Mean Girls, Pretty in Pink

Debbie McWilliams - Skyfall, Quantum of Solace

Joseph Middleton - TheTwilight Saga: New Moon, Legally Blonde

Robi Reed - For Colored Girls, Do the Right Thing

Kevin Reher - Monsters University, Finding Nemo

Paul Schnee - August: Osage County, Dallas Buyers Club

Gail Stevens - Zero Dark Thirty, Slumdog Millionaire

Lucinda Syson - Gravity, Fast and & Furious 6

Fiona Weir - J. Edgar, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

Ronnie Yeskel - The Sessions, Atlas Shrugged Part 1

Cinematographers

Sean Bobbitt - 12 Years a Slave, The Place beyond the Pines

Philippe Le Sourd - The Grandmaster, Seven Pounds

James Neihouse - Hubble 3D, Nascar: The IMAX Experience

Masanobu Takayanagi - Out of the Furnace, Silver Linings Playbook

Bradford Young - Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Pariah

Costume Designers

William Chang Suk Ping - The Grandmaster, In the Mood for Love

Pascaline Chavanne - Renoir, Augustine

Daniela Ciancio - The Great Beauty, Il Divo

Frank L. Fleming - Draft Day, Monster's Ball

Maurizio Millenotti - Hamlet, Otello

Beatrix Aruna Pasztor - Great Expectations, Good Will Hunting

Karyn Wagner - Lovelace, The Green Mile

Designers

William Arnold - Lovelace, Crazy, Stupid, Love.

K.K. Barrett - Her, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Susan Benjamin - Saving Mr. Banks, The Blind Side

Bill Boes - The Smurfs 2, Fantastic Four

Tony Fanning - Contraband, War of the Worlds

Robert Greenfield - Priest, Almost Famous

Marcia Hinds - I Spy, The Public Eye

Sonja Brisbane Klaus - Prometheus, Robin Hood

David S. Lazan - Flight, American Beauty

Diane Lederman - Lee Daniels' The Butler, Tower Heist

Heather Loeffler - American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook

Christa Munro - Jack Reacher, Erin Brockovich

Andy Nicholson - Gravity, The Host

Adam Stockhausen - 12 Years a Slave, Moonrise Kingdom

Directors

Hany Abu-Assad - Omar, Paradise Now

Jay Duplass - Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Cyrus

Mark Duplass - Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Cyrus

David Gordon Green - Joe, Pineapple Express

Gavin O'Connor - Warrior, Miracle

Gina Prince-Bythewood - The Secret Life of Bees, Love and Basketball

Paolo Sorrentino - The Great Beauty, This Must Be the Place

Jean-Marc Vall e - Dallas Buyers Club, Young Victoria

Felix van Groeningen - The Broken Circle Breakdown, The Misfortunates

Denis Villeneuve - Prisoners, Incendies

Thomas Vinterberg - The Hunt, The Celebration

Documentary

Malcolm Clarke - The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Prisoner of Paradise

Dan Cogan - How to Survive a Plague, The Queen of Versailles

Kief Davidson - Open Heart, Kassim the Dream

Dan Geller - The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, Ballets Russes

Dayna Goldfine - The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, Ballets Russes

Julie Goldman - God Loves Uganda, Gideon's Army

Sam Green - Utopia in Four Movements, The Weather Underground

Gary Hustwit - Urbanized, Helvetica

Eugene Jarecki - The House I Live In, Why We Fight

Brian Johnson - Anita, Buena Vista Social Club

Ross Kauffman - E-Team, Born into Brothels

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