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Hüller and Çatak can join the Oscar Academy
Hüller was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress for her role in “Anatomy of a Case”. Photo
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487 filmmakers have now been invited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to join the film association. Among them are actress Sandra Hüller and director Ilker Çatak.
Hüller was nominated for an Oscar this year for her role in the French legal drama “Anatomy of a Case”. Çatak was in the Oscar race for Germany in the “International Film” category with the social drama “The Teachers’ Room”. The director, who was born in Berlin and grew up partly in Turkey, can join the Film Academy as a director or as a screenwriter.
Members are allowed to vote in Oscar awards
The path to the Academy is via an Oscar nomination or other special achievements in film. There are over a dozen categories, including directing, camera, editing, screenplay, acting and music. The new members will be able to vote in the awarding of the Oscars.
In the acting category, alongside Hüller, Lily Gladstone (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), Greta Lee (“Past Lives”) and Swann Arlaud (“Anatomy of a Fall”) are listed. Other German filmmakers who have been invited include casting director Ulrike Müller (“Scorched Earth”) and film editor Toni Froschhammer (“Perfect Days”, “Pina”).
The association, which has over 10,500 members, has been striving for more diversity for some time. In 2016, the academy announced that it would accept more women and minorities. According to the academy, women make up 44 percent of the newly invited members. This would bring the proportion of women in the entire organization to 35 percent.