Oscars Academy invites Anupam Kher, Anurag Kashyap Zoya Akhtar & Ritesh Batra to join; only 4 invites for Indians versus 2018's 20

Acemy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences anunced a list of new members and invited four Indian film personalities - Anurag Kashyap, Anupam Kher, Zoya Akhtar, and Ritesh Batra - to join organization.

A total of 842 artists from as many as 59 countries were invited to join Acemy this year. Achieving a new level of parity, organisation anunced that half of members invited to join Acemy are women. organisation also disclosed that 29 percent of new invitees are people of colour.

official Twitter handle of Acemy anunced on Monday, "Best. Day. Ever. We're excited to invite se 842 inspiring storytellers to Acemy. Tweet your welcome using #WeAreAcemy today."

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Bollywood veteran actor Anupam Kher has been invited in actors' branch. He currently stars in American medical drama series 'New Amsterdam' as a neurologist named Dr. Vijay Kapoor.

Ace filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who has helmed films like 'Gangs of Wasseypur', 'Dev.D', 'Lust Stories', expressed his happiness and tweeted "#WeAreAcemy" attaching organisation's tweet. Kashyap has been invited in short films and feature animation branch.

Zoya Akhtar, who has directed movies like 'Luck By Chance', 'Dil Dhakne Do', 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' and 'Gully Boy', has also been invited to join directors' branch.

Indian visual effects supervisor Srinivas Mohan has also been invited by group. Sherry Bharda, YRF Studios' Creative Supervisor has also been invited for visual effects branch.

Ritesh Batra, director behind Irrfan Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Nimrat Kaur's ' Lunchbox' Nawazuddin and Sanya Malhotra-starrer 'Photograph', has been invited to join writers' branch.

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Among or members of Indian descent are British actor Archie Panjabi of ' Good Wife' fame and Canian actor-director Nisha Ganatra who has helmed 'Chutney Popcorn'.

In 2018, 20 Indian film personalities, including Shah Rukh Khan, Naseeruddin Shah, itya Chopra, Ali Fazal, Anil Kapoor, and Tabu, were invited to join organisation.

Indian film producer Guneet Monga, whose film titled 'Period. End of Sentence' bagged Acemy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at this year's Oscars, was also invited last year.