ACADEMY INVITEES

Out of our 100 suggestions, 36 were chosen to be invited into the academy.

After two years of #OscarsSoWhite controversy, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences vowed to double the women and minorities in its ranks. Last month, The Times suggested a Diverse 100 new members . Of those, the 36 people pictured below are new invitees.

Just like making movies, picking new members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is more art than science.

That is reflected in the new class of 683 invitees for membership, the largest, most diverse group ever, that the academy announced this week.

Drawn from 59 countries, including the United States, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ list of new invitees includes many choices that seemed obvious, and others that were perhaps a bit surprising.

A month ago, while the academy was still compiling its new roster — in an effort to hit its established goal of doubling the numbers of women and minorities in their membership — The Times released its own list, Our Diverse 100, of women, people of color and members of the LGBT community who we felt could help address the academy’s, and broader Hollywood’s, lack of diversity.

And it is a very real issue: In a landmark 2012 study, the Los Angeles Times reported that voting members were 94% white and 77% male. When updated in February of this year, little progress had been made: Oscar voters were 91% white and 76% male. After the latest addition of invitees, if they all accept, the academy will be 89% white and 73% male.

So how did we do? Of our 100 suggestions — based on interviews with movie industry insiders and the expertise of our staff — the following 36 were invited to be members. Of course, that means that 64 of them weren’t. There’s always next year.

Many of those 64 artists — including actors like Priyanka Chopra, Laverne Cox, Rinko Kikuchi and Edgar Ramirez; directors like Zhang Yimou and Amy Heckerling; and writers like Kelly Marcel and Jonas Cuaron — could be considered again and invited then.

Not on our list, but deserving invitees, include actors like Luis Guzman, Brie Larson and Harold Perrineau (and directors like Marjane Satrapi, Taika Waititi and Julie Dash). But since we limited our list to 100, and with the academy putting forth an unprecedentedly large one, the two were never going to line up. (And no one could have predicted that this new class would incorporate so many international filmmakers.)

We wish we had done a little better, but if we were in the major leagues, we’d be batting .360 — which isn’t too bad at all. ACTORS Chadwick Boseman: “Captain America: Civil War,” “Get On Up” John Boyega: “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “Attack the Block” Idris Elba: “Beasts of No Nation,” “Pacific Rim” America Ferrera: “Cesar Chavez,” End of Watch” Oscar Isaac: “Ex Machina,” “A Most Violent Year” Michael B. Jordan: “Creed,” “Fruitvale Station” Regina King: “Ray,” “Jerry Maguire” Adepero Oduye: “The Big Short,” “12 Years A Slave” Nate Parker: “Beyond the Lights,” “Red Tails” Tessa Thompson: “Creed,” “Dear White People” Gabrielle Union: “Top Five,” “Bad Boys II”

DIRECTORS Ramin Bahrani: “99 Homes,” “At Any Price” Ryan Coogler*: “Creed,” “Fruitvale Station” Anne Fletcher: “The Proposal,” “Step Up” Cary Fukunaga: “Beasts of No Nation,” “Jane Eyre” So Yong Kim: “For Ellen,” “In Between Days” Karyn Kusama: “Jennifer’s Body,” “Girlfight” Dee Rees: “Pariah,” “Bessie” Patricia Riggen: “The 33,” “Girl in Progress” Yohei Taneda: “The Hateful Eight,” “Monster Hunt” Sam Taylor-Johnson: “Fifty Shades of Gray,” “Nowhere Boy” Lana Wachowski: “Cloud Atlas,” “The Matrix” franchise Lily Wachowski: “Cloud Atlas,” “The Matrix” franchise James Wan: “The Conjuring,” “Saw”

DESIGNERS Celia Bobak: “The Martian,” “Shanghai”

WRITERS Tina Fey: “Mean Girls” O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson Sr.*: “Friday,” “Ride Along” Takeshi Kitano: “Outrage,”

“Kikujiro” Abi Morgan: “Suffragette,” “The Iron Lady” Phyllis Nagy: “Carol”

DOCUMENTARY Dawn Porter: “Trapped,” “Gideon’s Army”

MUSIC Robert “RZA” Diggs: “Django Unchained,” “The Man With the Iron Fists”

PRODUCERS Anne Carey: “Mr. Holmes,” “The Savages” Debra Martin Chase: “Sparkle,” “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”

SHORT FILMS AND FEATURE ANIMATION Jorge Gutierrez: “The Book of Life,” “Carmelo” Sanjay Patel: “Sanjay’s Super Team,” “Tokyo Mater”

*Invited to membership in two branches