69 People Invited To Join Academy’s Animation And VFX Branches

But one group that’s conspicuously absent from the invitees to this year’s animation branch: Asian filmmakers and animation artists.
Below is the complete list of invitees to the Short Films & Feature Animation and Visual Effects branches. We have also included the invitees to the Writer’s branch who have feature animation credits. The Academy groups live-action short filmmakers and feature animation filmmakers in the same department, so that list includes several people who have not worked in animation.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 397 film industry figures to join its ranks as part of the class of 2022. Seventeen per cent of those people have been invited to the Short Films & Feature Animation and Visual Effects branches of the Academy.

Somewhere in the neighborhood of 25% of the Oscar-qualified animated features in the last three years have originated from Asia, which makes it all the more surprising that the Academy has not made any kind of effort to increase Asian representation in its organization. In this three-year stretch during which Asian animated films have been submitted to The Academy at a record pace, no fully-Asian animated features have been nominated for the Oscar.
According to the Academy, membership selection is based on professional qualifications with an ongoing commitment to representation, inclusion, and equity remaining a priority. The 2022 class is composed of 44% women, 37% belong to underrepresented ethnic/racial communities, and 50% are from 53 countries and territories outside the United States.

Short Films and Feature Animation

Murad Abu Eisheh – Tala’vision, Ta Hariri
Olivier Adam – Sing 2, Minions
Michael Arias – Harmony, Tekkonkinkreet
Evren Boisjoli – Fauve, What Remains
Maria Brendle – Ala Kachuu – Take and Run, The Stowaway
Sean Buckelew – Drone, Hopkins & Delaney LLP
Olivier Calvert – Bad Seeds, Animal Behaviour
Enrico Casarosa – Luca, La Luna
Karla Castañeda – La Noria (The Waterwheel), Jacinta
Hugo Covarrubias – Bestia, The Night Upside Down
D. Dávila – Please Hold, Emergency
Charlotte De La Gournerie – Flee, Terra Incognita
Luc Desmarchelier – The Bad Guys, Open Season
Anton Dyakov – Boxballet, Vivat Musketeers!
Brian Falconer – Saul & I, Boogaloo and Graham
Youssef Joe Haidar – Scoob!, Animated American
Andy Harkness – Vivo, Get a Horse!
Pierre Hébert – Thunder River, Memories of War
Aneil Karia – The Long Goodbye, Work
Brooke Keesling – Meatclown, Boobie Girl
Nadine Lüchinger – Ala Kachuu – Take and Run, Puppenspiel (Puppet Play)
Tadeusz Łysiak – The Dress, Techno
Joe Mateo – Blush, Big Hero 6
Sharon Maymon – Skin, Summer Vacation
Kathleen McInnis – Mama, Downturn
Yvett Merino – Encanto, Wreck-It Ralph
Alberto Mielgo – The Windshield Wiper, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Les Mills – Affairs of the Art, The Canterbury Tales
Jetzabel Moreno Hernández – The Followers, Plums and Green Smoke
Dan Ojari – Robin Robin, Slow Derek
Brian Pimental – Tarzan, A Goofy Movie
Mikey Please – Robin Robin, The Eagleman Stag
Erin Ramos – Encanto, Frozen II
Mike Rianda – The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Doug Roland – Feeling Through, A Better Way
Leo Sanchez – The Windshield Wiper, Over the Moon
Marc J. Scott – The Boss Baby: Family Business, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Sarah Smith – Ron’s Gone Wrong, Arthur Christmas
Daniel Šuljić – From Under Which Rock Did They Crawl Out, The Cake
Conrad Vernon – The Addams Family, Shrek 2
Pamela Ziegenhagen-Shefland – Abominable, The Emperor’s New Groove