176 invited to join Academy

Jun 29, 2012 by Ian Evans

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 176 artists and executives to receive membership in the Academy.

“These film professionals represent some of the most talented, most passionate contributors to our industry,” said Academy President Tom Sherak. “I’m glad to recognize that by calling each of them a fellow Academy member.”

The 2012 invitees are:

Actors

  • Simon Baker — Margin Call, L.A. Confidential
  • Sean Bean — Flightplan, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Bérénice Bejo — The Artist, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
  • Tom Berenger — Inception, Platoon
  • Demián Bichir — A Better Life, Che
  • Jessica Chastain — The Help, The Tree of Life
  • Clifton Collins, Jr. — Star Trek, Traffic
  • Bryan Cranston — Contagion, Little Miss Sunshine
  • Jean Dujardin — Les infidèls, __The Artist
  • Richard E. Grant — The Iron Lady, Withnail & I
  • Jonah Hill — Moneyball, Superbad
  • Ken Howard — J. Edgar, In Her Shoes
  • Diego Luna — Milk, Y Tu Mamá También
  • Margo Martindale — Secretariat, Million Dollar Baby
  • Melissa McCarthy — Bridesmaids, The Back-Up Plan
  • Matthew McConaughey — The Lincoln Lawyer, A Time to Kill
  • Janet McTeer — Albert Nobbs, Tumbleweeds
  • S. Epatha Merkerson — Mother and Child, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • Sam Rockwell — Cowboys & Aliens, Moon
  • Andy Serkis — The Prestige, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Octavia Spencer — The Help, The Soloist
  • Lili Taylor — Being Flynn, High Fidelity
  • Nia Vardalos — For a Good Time, Call&ldots;, My Big Fat Greek Wedding
  • Kerry Washington — Django Unchained, Ray
  • Michelle Yeoh — The Lady, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Designers

  • Laurence Bennett — The Artist, Crash
  • David Brisbin — The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Dead Presidents
  • Scott Chambliss — Cowboys & Aliens, Mission: Impossible III
  • Wendy Chuck — The Descendants, Sideways
  • Maria Djurkovic — Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Hours
  • Sanja Milkovic Hays — Battle: Los Angeles, Mission to Mars
  • Mayes Rubeo — Avatar, Apocalypto
  • Anne Seibel — Midnight in Paris, The Devil Wears Prada
  • Sharon Seymour — The Ides of March, Friday Night Lights
  • Sammy Sheldon — X-Men: First Class, V for Vendetta

Cinematographers

  • Florian Ballhaus — Mr. Popper’s Penguins, The Devil Wears Prada
  • Oliver Bokelberg — Win Win, The Station Agent
  • Anna J. Foerster — Anonymous
  • Larry Fong — Super 8, 300
  • Alwin Kuchler — Hanna, Proof
  • Toyomichi Kurita — Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family, Waiting to Exhale
  • George Mooradian — Crazy as Hell, Nemesis
  • Guillaume Schiffman — The Artist, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
  • Terry Stacey — Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Friends with Money

Directors

  • Joseph Cedar — Footnote (Hearat Shulayim), Beaufort
  • Jean-Pierre Dardenne — The Kid with a Bike (Le gamin au vélo), The Child (L’enfant)
  • Luc Dardenne — Lorna’s Silence (Le silence de Lorna), The Son (Le fils)
  • Philippe Falardeau — Monsieur Lazhar, It’s Not Me, I Swear! (C’est pas moi, je le jure!)
  • Asghar Farhadi* — A Separation (Jodaieye Nadar az Simin), __About Elly (Darbareye Elly)
    (also invited to the Writers Branch)
  • Rodrigo Garcia — Albert Nobbs, Mother and Child
  • Michel Hazanavicius* — Les infidèles (The Players), The Artist (also invited to the Writers
    Branch)
  • Kasi Lemmons — Talk to Me, Eve’s Bayou
  • Terrence Malick — The Tree of Life, The Thin Red Line
  • Michaël R. Roskam — Bullhead (Rundskop)
  • Wong Kar Wai — My Blueberry Nights, In the Mood for Love

Documentary

  • John Battsek — The Tillman Story, One Day in September
  • Amy Berg — Bhutto, Deliver Us from Evil
  • Simon Chinn — Project Nim, Man on Wire
  • Marshall Curry — If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, Street Fight
  • Johanna Demetrakas — __Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chogyam Trungpa
  • Rinpoche__, Bus Riders Union
  • Daniel Junge — Saving Face, The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
  • Mary Lampson — Kimjongilia, Harlan County, USA
  • Sam Pollard — Gerrymandering, 4 Little Girls
  • Glenn Silber — El Salvador: Another Vietnam, The War at Home
  • Lucy Walker — The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, Waste Land

Executives

  • James Amos
  • Michael Bostick
  • Richard Brener
  • Howard Mark Cohen
  • David C. Glasser
  • Jeffrey B. Goldstein
  • Frederick Huntsberry
  • Jon Jashni
  • Michael Marshall
  • Tony Safford
  • Gregory Silverman
  • Nigel Sinclair

Film Editors

  • Kirk Baxter — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network
  • Nicolas De Toth — X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Sum of All Fears
  • Scott Hill — Zookeeper, Bruce Almighty
  • Dan Lebental — Iron Man 2, Elf
  • Glen Scantlebury — Transformers, Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Makeup Artists and Hairstylists

  • Mark Coulier — The Iron Lady, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
  • Linda Flowers — The Hunger Games, The Social Network
  • Toni G — Salt, Monster
  • Amanda Knight — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Mission: Impossible
  • Tami Lane — Superman Returns The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the
    Wardrobe

Members-at-Large

  • Wendy Aylsworth
  • Kyle Cooper
  • Patrick Crowley
  • Bud Davis
  • Chris deFaria
  • Sarah Katzman
  • John Kilkenny
  • Heidi Levitt
  • Kerry Lyn McKissick
  • Elizabeth Sayre
  • Michael Tadross
  • Mary Vernieu

Music

  • Ludovic Bource — The Artist, OSS 117: Lost In Rio
  • Alberto Iglesias — Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Constant Gardener
  • Conrad Pope — My Week with Marilyn, The Rising Place
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto — Love Is the Devil, The Last Emperor
  • Theodore Shapiro — The Big Year, I Love You, Man

Producers

  • Letty Aronson — Midnight in Paris, Match Point
  • Michael Barnathan — The Help, Rent
  • Jean Bréhat — London River, Days of Glory (Indigènes)
  • Susan Cartsonis — Beastly, What Women Want
  • Tracey Edmonds — Jumping the Broom, Soul Food
  • Dede Gardner — The Tree of Life, Running with Scissors
  • Grant Heslov* — The Ides of March, Good Night, and Good Luck. (also invited to the
    Writers Branch)
  • Thomas Langmann — The Artist, Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
  • William Packer — Think Like a Man, This Christmas
  • Aaron Ryder — The Raven, The Prestige
  • Peter Saraf — Our Idiot Brother, Little Miss Sunshine
  • Mary Jane Skalski — Win Win, The Station Agent

Public Relations

  • Larry Baldauf
  • Cindi Berger
  • Matthew P. Brubaker
  • Brian Daly
  • Rebecca Kearey
  • Adam Keen
  • Katie Martin Kelley
  • Eric Kops
  • Derek McLay
  • Michelle Sewell
  • Mark Woollen

Short Films and Feature Animation

  • Paul Cichocki — Brave, WALL-E
  • Eric Daniels — Tangled, Meet the Robinsons
  • Amanda Forbis — Wild Life, When the Day Breaks
  • Emily Hubley — The Toe Tactic, Pigeon Within
  • William Joyce — The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, Meet the Robinsons
  • Marv Newland — CMYK, Tête à Tête à Tête
  • Floyd Norman — Waking Sleeping Beauty, Mulan
  • Jonas Rivera — Up, Cars
  • Michelle Steffes — The Interview, Day Labor
  • David Verrall — Dimanche/Sunday, Madame Tutli-Putli
  • Jennifer Yuh Nelson — Kung Fu Panda 2, Madagascar

Sound

  • Erik Aadahl — Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Monsters vs Aliens
  • Deb Adair — Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Moneyball
  • Stephen M. Bartkowicz — Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds, Red State
  • John T. Cucci — Snow White & the Huntsman, Prometheus
  • Chuck Garsha — Misery, Die Hard
  • Mildred Iatrou — The Green Hornet, The Tree of Life
  • Tim LeBlanc — For Greater Glory, Something Borrowed
  • Bo Persson — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Fanny & Alexander
  • Gary L.G. Simpson — Captain America: The First Avenger, The Bourne Ultimatum
  • Philip Stockton — Hugo, Brokeback Mountain

Visual Effects

  • Scott Benza — Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Iron Man
  • Greg Butler — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, The Lord of the Rings: The
    Return of the King
  • Sheena Duggal — The Hunger Games, Spider-Man 3
  • Christopher Evans — Hugo, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Ben Grossmann — Hugo, The Italian Job
  • Dan Lemmon — Rise of the Planet of the Apes, King Kong
  • John Rosengrant — Real Steel, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
  • Eric Saindon — Avatar, X-Men The Last Stand
  • R. Christopher White — The Lovely Bones, Jurassic Park III
  • Guy Williams — Marvel’s The Avengers, Avatar
  • Joss Williams — Hugo, Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Writers

  • J.C. Chandor — Margin Call
  • Asghar Farhadi* — A Separation (Jodaieye Nadar az Simin), Beautiful City (Shahr-e ziba)
    (also invited to the Directors Branch)
  • Michel Hazanavicius* — The Artist, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (also invited to the
    Directors Branch)
  • Grant Heslov* — The Ides of March, Good Night, and Good Luck. (also invited to the
    Producers Branch)
  • Stephen King — Pet Sematary, Creepshow
  • Oren Moverman — The Messenger, I’m Not There
  • Annie Mumolo — Bridesmaids
  • Nicholas Stoller — The Muppets, Get Him to the Greek
  • Peter Straughan — Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Men Who Stare at Goats
  • Kristen Wiig — Bridesmaids

Additionally, the Academy invited Fritz Gabriel Bauer, Lee S. Berger, Ronald Bernstein, Ariel Emanuel, Jean-Marie Lavalou, Bryan Lourd, Dale Oliver, Jeremy Plager, John B. Quinn and Steve Weinstein to Associate membership. Associate members are not represented on the Board and do not have Academy Awards® voting privileges. Three of the invitees (noted above by an asterisk) have been invited to join the Academy by multiple branches. These individuals must select one branch upon accepting membership.