The actors Jacob Elordi, Teyana Taylor, Bill Skarsgard, Jenna Ortega and Josh O’Connor have been invited to become members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as have other notables including new Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro, filmmaker brothers Benny Safdie (The Smashing Machine) and Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme), One Battle After Another casting director Cassandra Kulukundis (who earlier this year became the first recipient of the best casting Oscar), Weapons director Zach Cregger, Marty Supreme producer Eli Bush, Grammy-winning singer/songwriters Sara Bareilles and EJAE, power-managers Aleen Keshishian and Jason Weinberg, top personal publicist Megan Moss and events producer Madelyn Hammond, and rising-star awards strategists Jonathan Epstein, Josh Haroutunian and Emily Lu Aldrich.
The list of 529 invitees released Wednesday morning by the Academy — which includes 95 Oscar nominees, 21 Oscar winners and three Scientific and Technical Award recipients — follows classes numbering 395 in 2021, 397 in 2022, 398 in 2023 and 487 in 2024 and 534 in 2025.
Academy invitations are the result of a process that begins with sponsorship, not application. The executive committees of each of the organization’s 19 branches and one “membership classification” identify candidates who they feel are worthy of membership (on top of Oscar nominees, who are automatically considered for membership in the year in which they are nominated); their recommendations are then reviewed by the membership committee and presented to the board of governors for final approval.
