Academy ranks swell with 115 new invited members

The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has invited 115 artists and executives to swell its membership ranks as voting members in 2007.Membership policies adopted by the Academy in 2003 to limit the number of new members would have allowed 150 new members this year but various branch committees endorsed fewer candidates than were proposed to them. Voting membership has now held steady at just under 6,0000 for the past four years.'Some interesting changes are ...