Oscar Voters Increase by 187 Over Last Year, but Actors Branch Shrinks

After 5 years of explosive progress designed to make the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences greater, extra worldwide and extra numerous, progress slowed considerably in 2021, with the group including solely 187 new Oscar voters to final 12 months’s whole of 9,300.

Based on an AMPAS department depend dated Jan. 24, 2022, the Academy has 9,487 members who’re eligible to vote for this 12 months’s 94th Academy Awards when nomination voting opens on Thursday. The rise got here after a 12 months during which 395 movie professionals have been invited to affix the Academy, about half the quantity that had been invited because the 2016 #OscarsSoWhite protests precipitated AMPAS management to undertake a revamping of its membership.

In the course of the ensuing five-year drive, membership elevated from simply over 6,000 voting members to greater than 9,000. However the Academy introduced in 2021 that it might cut back the variety of invites “to allow regular future progress and to make sure the required infrastructure, employees sources and setting to assist all Academy members.”

This 12 months’s department depend, which might be used to find out who’s eligible to vote for the Oscars, exhibits a complete progress of lower than 200, which signifies that a number of the 395 invitees could have declined the invitation, whereas different present Academy members died or moved to non-voting standing.

Of the 17 Academy branches, 16 confirmed slight will increase in membership, with the Brief Movies and Function Animation and Visible Results branches having the most important soar with 26 extra members than in 2021. The variety of members within the Documentary and Producers branches additionally rose by not less than 20, whereas 9 branches had single-digit will increase.

The Actors Department, the Academy’s largest, was the one one to lose members, with its present depend of 1,336 marking a drop of 23 over final 12 months’s whole of 1,359.

Counting non-voting affiliate members, the Academy has a complete lively membership of 9,573 – whereas in case you add an extra 914 emeritus members, the whole reaches 10,487.

Listed here are the department counts as of Jan. 24, 2022. The change in dimension since final 12 months’s closing pre-nomination depend is indicated in parentheses.

Actors: 1,336 (-23)
Casting Administrators: 150 (+8)
Cinematographers: 290 (+8)
Costume Designers: 171 (+4)
Administrators: 568 (+4)
Documentary: 618 (+23)
Executives: 681 (+18)
Movie Editors: 375 (+4)
Make-up Artists and Hairstylists: 231 (+7)
Advertising and Public Relations: 605 (+18)
Music: 383 (+9)
Producers: 634 (+20)
Manufacturing Design: 387 (+5)
Brief Movies and Function Animation: 844 (+26)
Sound: 550 (+14)
Visible Results: 606 (+26)
Writers: 504 (+5)
Members-at-Massive: 554 (+11)

Whole voting members: 9,487 (+187)

Affiliate members: 86 (-9)
Whole lively members: 9,573 (+178)
Emeritus members: 914 (+33)
Whole lively and inactive members: 10,487 (+211)