Ariana DeBose, Anya Taylor-Joy and Billie Eilish: the new guests to vote at the Oscars

Not everyone gets to vote for an Oscar, probably the most prestigious award in a film career.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
29 June 2022 Wednesday 04:03
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Ariana DeBose, Anya Taylor-Joy and Billie Eilish: the new guests to vote at the Oscars

Not everyone gets to vote for an Oscar, probably the most prestigious award in a film career. Each year, the Hollywood Academy, the institution that awards these awards, chooses the winners. But, before that happens, they invite some personalities from the scene to be part of the vote.

Among the personalities who have received the invitation to join the ranks of the institution, 44% are women, 37% identify with minority groups and 50% are professionals from outside the United States, the institution has highlighted in a statement. However, joining the Academy is not automatic, since professionals (including directors, actors, producers, technicians...) will have to accept the call of their corresponding guild.

Among those selected are Ariana DeBose, of Puerto Rican origin and winner of an Oscar for West Side Story; and Anya Taylor-Joy, star of Lady's Gambit. Also included are Robin de Jesús, of Puerto Rican origin, Olga Merediz, born in Cuba, and Marco Rodríguez.

Likewise, the Spaniards Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sánchez, winners of the Oscar for best animated short for The Windshield Wiper, will be able to enter; the Chilean Hugo Covarrubias, candidate for the same award for Bestia and the Colombian producer Cristina Gallego (Birds of Passage).

The Spanish filmmaker Mariano Barroso, current president of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain, also appears in the list of people who will be able to vote in the next Oscars.

Among the popular Hollywood names invited by the Academy are Troy Kotsur, the recent winner of the statuette for best supporting actor for Coda, and Frenchman Vincent Lindon, star of the controversial Titane. Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas will also be able to join the music department of the institution.

With the new income, the Hollywood Academy will be close to 10,000 members. In January 2016, the institution announced a series of changes with the aim of doubling the number of women and people of diverse origins among its ranks, in order to placate criticism for the lack of diversity in the Oscar voting.

Pedro Pascal, Alice Braga, Ricardo Darín, Javier Cámara, Daniela Vega, Carmen Maura, Carlos Bardem, Natalia De Molina and Rossy De Palma are some of the professionals who have joined the Academy in recent years.