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Jun 26, 2026

Film Academy Invites 529 New Members: Jacob Elordi, Jenna Ortega, Teyana Taylor and More to Become Oscar Voters

Breakout stars Jacob Elordi and Teyana Taylor, along with Hollywood mainstays Jenna Ortega and Jon Bernthal, and new Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro are among the 529 invitees to the newest member class of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The 2026 invitee list includes 95 Oscar nominees — 21 of them winners — along with three Scientific and Technical Awards recipients. The list is a touch leaner than the 534 names extended invitations last year, though the makeup of the class is the bigger story.

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“We are delighted to invite this remarkable group of film artists and professionals from around the world to join the Academy,” Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Lynette Howell Taylor said in a joint statement. “Through their commitment to filmmaking, this year’s exceptionally talented class has made significant contributions to our global movie industry.”

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By the numbers, the class is 42% women, 56% from underrepresented communities and 53% drawn from 60 countries and territories outside the United States. That underrepresented-communities figure marks a notable jump from the 45% reported in the 2025 class, evidence that the Academy’s decade-long campaign to diversify its ranks in the wake of #OscarsSoWhite has not lost momentum, even as annual class sizes have shrunk from the record-setting cohorts of 2016 through 2020. If all 2026 invitees accept Academy membership, total AMPAS members (including Emeritus) will be 11,319 and the number of voting members will be 10,338. With the addition of the 2026 new member class, the Academy is 36% women, 25% from underrepresented communities and 22% international.

The actors branch includes marquee names like “Frankenstein” stars Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth, who both earned spots, as did Jenna Ortega of “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” and “Death of a Unicorn,” “Weapons” star Julia Garner and “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” lead Josh O’Connor. The branch also welcomes Paddy Considine, Simu Liu, Anthony Ramos, Scoot McNairy, Tig Notaro, Bill Skarsgård and Wood Harris, along with character actor mainstays Jon Bernthal, David Dastmalchian and Jemaine Clement.

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