FF2 Media applauds diversity in new AMPAS Class of '17

FF2 Media applauds AMPAS (The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) for inviting inviting 774 new members from 57 countries. The class of 2017 has an increased number of women and POC (People of Color) in its effort to boost diversity in each of its seven branches.

Of the 64 directors invited this year, 17 (roughly 27 percent) are women, a decrease from last year’s invitees (54 percent women). This year’s list includes Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jones’s Diary), Susanna White (Nanny McPhee Returns), Aida Begic (Snow), Christine Jeffs (Sunshine Cleaning) and Patricia Cardoso (Real Women Have Curves).

Backlash from the 2016 Oscar snubs sparked FF2 Media’s merit-based Make Oscars Gold campaign, a combination of #OscarsSoWhite (lack of People of Color) and #StopBlueOscar (lack of women). The Challenge? If Oscar wants to be “gold” (meaning merit-based), then everyone must have an equal chance of success.

Given AMPAS president Cheryl Boone Isaacs’ recent inclusion of women filmmakers to the list of Director’s Group and Screenwriter’s Group members, we have every hope that this year’s nominees will be considerably more diverse than in prior years. Click HERE to read FF2 Media’s coverage of the new AMPAS invitees.

List of 17 women directors invited to The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2017 (with * indicating admission in multiple categories):

Aida Begić * Children of Sarajevo & Snow

Patricia Cardoso Real Women Have Curves & The Water Carrier

Nana Dzhordzhadze 27 Missing Kisses & A Chef in Love

Ildikó Enyedi * Simon Magus & My Twentieth Century

Safi Faye * Mossane & Lettre Paysanne

Jessica Hausner Amour Fou & Lourdes

Joanna Hogg Archipelago & Exhibition

Ann Hui A Simple Life & Summer Snow

Christine Jeffs Sunshine Cleaning & Sylvia

Sharon Maguire Incendiary & Bridget Jones’s Diary

Márta Mészáros * Diary for My Children & Adoption

Jocelyn Moorhouse The Dressmaker & Proof

Kira Muratova The Tuner & The Asthenic Syndrome

Cate Shortland Lore & Somersault

Athina Rachel Tsangari Chevalier & Attenberg

Paula van der Oest Black Butterflies & Zus and Zo

Susanna White Our Kind of Traitor & Nanny McPhee Returns

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