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ACADEMY INVITES 397 TO MEMBERSHIP

New member Sheryl Lee Ralph – “Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit,” “The Distinguished Gentleman.” Photo by Naomi Richard.

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 397 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. Membership selection is based on professional qualifications, with an ongoing commitment to representation, inclusion and equity remaining a priority. The 2022 class is 44% women, 37% belong to underrepresented ethnic/racial communities, and 50% are from 53 countries and territories outside the United States. There are 71 Oscar® nominees, including 15 winners, among the invitees. Four individuals (noted by an asterisk) have been invited to join the Academy by multiple branches. These individuals must select one branch upon accepting membership. Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2022. The 2022 invitees are: Actors Funke Akindele – “Omo Ghetto: The Saga,” “Jenifa” Caitríona Balfe – “Belfast,” “Ford v Ferrari” Reed Birney – “Mass,” “Changeling” Jessie Buckley – “The Lost Daughter,” “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” Lori Tan Chinn – “Turning Red,” “Glengarry Glen Ross” Daniel K. Daniel – “The Fugitive,” “A Soldier’s Story” Ariana DeBose – “West Side Story,” “The Prom” Robin de Jesús – “tick, tick...BOOM!,” “The Boys in the Band” Jamie Dornan – “Belfast,” “Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar” Michael Greyeyes – “Wild Indian,” “Woman Walks Ahead” Gaby Hoffmann – “C’mon C’mon,” “Wild” Amir Jadidi – “A Hero,” “Cold Sweat” Kajol – “My Name Is Khan,” “Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…” Troy Kotsur – “CODA,” “The Number 23” Vincent Lindon – “Titane,” “The Measure of a Man” BarBara Luna – “The Concrete Jungle,” “Five Weeks in a Balloon” Aïssa Maïga – “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,” “Mood Indigo” Selton Mello – “My Hindu Friend,” “Trash” Olga Merediz – “In the Heights,” “Adrift” Sandra Kwan Yue Ng – “Echoes of the Rainbow,” “Portland Street Blues” Hidetoshi Nishijima – “Drive My Car,” “Cut” Rena Owen – “The Last Witch Hunter,” “The Dead Lands” Jesse Plemons – “The Power of the Dog,” “Judas and the Black Messiah” Sheryl Lee Ralph – “Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit,” “The Distinguished Gentleman” Renate Reinsve – “The Worst Person in the World,” “Welcome to Norway” Marco Rodriguez – “El Chicano,” “Unspeakable” Joanna Scanlan – “After Love,” “Notes on a Scandal” Kodi Smit-McPhee – “The Power of the Dog,” “Let Me In” Suriya – “Jai Bhim,” “Soorarai Pottru” Anya Taylor-Joy – “The Northman,” “Last Night in Soho” Casting Directors Rich Delia – “King Richard,” “The Disaster Artist” Elodie Demey – “Happening,” “Summer of 85” Yngvill Kolset Haga – “The Worst Person in the World,” “One Night in Oslo” Louise Kiely – “The Green Knight,” “Sing Street” Meagan Lewis – “Blast Beat,” “Free State of Jones” Karen Lindsay-Stewart – “Marie Antoinette,” “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” Juliette Ménager – “A Bag of Marbles,” “As Above/So Below” Kate Ringsell – “The Lost City of Z,” “Justice League” Toby Whale – “Dunkirk,” “The History Boys” Cinematographers Ava Berkofsky – “The Sky Is Everywhere,” “Free in Deed” Josh Bleibtreu – “Dark Phoenix,” “Shazam!” Alice Brooks – “In the Heights,” “tick, tick…BOOM!” Daria D’Antonio – “The Hand of God,” “Ricordi?” Mike Eley – “The Duke,” “Woman Walks Ahead” Sturla Brandth Grøvlen – “The Innocents,” “Another Round” Ruben Impens – “Titane,” “Beautiful Boy” Shabier Kirchner – “Small Axe,” “Bull” Martin Ruhe – “The Tender Bar,” “The Midnight Sky” Kasper Tuxen – “The Worst Person in the World,” “Riders of Justice” Costume Designers Joan Bergin – “The Prestige,” “In the Name of the Father” Antonella Cannarozzi – “A Five Star Life,” “I Am Love” Andrea Flesch – “Midsommar,” “Colette” Lizzy Gardiner – “Hacksaw Ridge,” “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” Dorothée Guiraud – “Murder Party,” “French Tech” Suzie Harman – “The Personal History of David Copperfield,” “Extinction” Tatiana Hernández – “The Japon,” “Lope” Louise Stjernsward – “Made in Italy,” “The Mercy” Elisabeth Tavernier – “The Man in the Basement,” “Tanguy Is Back” Paul Tazewell – “West Side Story,” “Harriet” Mitchell Travers – “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” “Hustlers”

Director Blessing Egbe – “African Messiah,” “Iquo’s Journal”

Directors Newton Aduaka – “One Man’s Show,” “Ezra” Andrew Ahn – “Fire Island,” “Spa Night” Bruno Villela Barreto – “Four Days in September,” “The Kiss” Mariano Barroso – “Ants in the Mouth,” “Ecstasy” Rolf de Heer – “Charlie’s Country,” “Bad Boy Bubby” Jeferson Rodrigues de Rezende – “The Malê Revolt,” “Bróder!” Pawo Choyning Dorji* – “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” Blessing Egbe – “African Messiah,” “Iquo’s Journal” Briar Grace-Smith – “Cousins ,” “Waru” Reinaldo Marcus Green – “King Richard,” “Monsters and Men” Ryusuke Hamaguchi* – “Drive My Car,” “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy” Sian Harries Heder* – “CODA,” “Tallulah” Gil Kenan – “City of Ember,” “Monster House” Amanda Kernell – “Charter,” “Sami Blood” Mary Lambert – “The In Crowd,” “Pet Sematary II” Blackhorse Lowe – “Chasing the Light,” “5th World” Nalin Pan – “Last Film Show,” “Samsara” Jonas Poher Rasmussen* – “Flee,” “Searching for Bill” Isabel Sandoval – “Lingua Franca,” “Apparition” Amy Seimetz – “She Dies Tomorrow,” “Sun Don’t Shine” Rachel Talalay – “A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting,” “Tank Girl”

Documentary Julie Anderson – “God Is the Bigger Elvis,” “Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World” Susan Bedusa – “Procession,” “Bisbee ’17” Opal H. Bennett – “A Broken House,” “Águilas” Shane Boris – “Stray,” “The Edge of Democracy” Joe Cephus Brewster – “American Promise,” “Slaying Goliath” Ellen Bruno – “Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy,” “Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia” Traci A. Curry – “Attica,” “Boss: The Black Experience in Business” Jason DaSilva – “When We Walk,” “When I Walk” Emílio Domingos – “Favela Is Fashion,” “L.A.P.A.” Sushmit Ghosh – “Writing with Fire,” “Timbaktu” Lyn Goldfarb – “Eddy’s World,” “With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade” Susanne Guggenberger – “Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes,” “The Beekeeper and His Son” Cristina Ibarra – “The Infiltrators,” “Las Marthas” Oren Jacoby – “On Broadway,” “Sister Rose’s Passion” Isaac Julien – “Derek,” “Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask” Deborah Kaufman – “Company Town,” “Blacks and Jews” Firouzeh Khosrovani – “Radiograph of a Family,” “Fest of Duty” Jessica Kingdon – “Ascension,” “Commodity City” Mehret Mandefro – “How It Feels to Be Free ,” “Little White Lie” Mary Manhardt – “Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl),” “Racing Dreams” Amanda McBaine – "Boys State,” “The Overnighters” Peter Jay Miller – “Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1,” “Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport” Elizabeth Mirzaei – “Three Songs for Benazir,” “Laila at the Bridge” Gulistan Mirzaei – “Three Songs for Benazir,” “Laila at the Bridge” Bob Moore – “Dope Is Death,” “China Heavyweight” Omar Mullick – “Footprint,” “These Birds Walk” Mohammed Ali Naqvi – “Insha’Allah Democracy,” “Among the Believers” Sierra Pettengill – “Riotsville, USA,” “The Reagan Show” Ben Proudfoot – “The Queen of Basketball,” “A Concerto Is a Conversation” Jonas Poher Rasmussen* – “Flee,” “Searching for Bill” Gabriel Rhodes – “The First Wave,” “Time” Lynne Sachs – “Film about a Father Who,” “Investigation of a Flame” Brett Story – “The Hottest August,” “The Prison in Twelve Landscapes” Thorsten Thielow – “The First Wave,” “Mayor Pete” Rintu Thomas – “Writing with Fire,” “Dilli” Nathan Truesdell – “Ascension,” “Balloonfest” Jenni Wolfson – “Pray Away,” “One Child Nation” Jialing Zhang – “In the Same Breath,” “One Child Nation”

Executives Steve Asbell Carole Baraton Steven Bardwil Jeff Blackburn Liesl Copland Kareem Daniel Eva Diederix Scott Foundas Brenda Gilbert Joshua Barnett Grode Gene Yoonbum Kang Jenny Marchick Ori Joseph Marmur Anna Marsh Katherine Oliver Joel Pearlman Elizabeth Polk Louie Provost Amber Rasberry Brian Robbins Marc Schaberg Ron Schwartz Aditya Sood Frederick Tsui Dana Walden Clifford Werber

Film Editors Geraud Brisson – “CODA,” “Dark Hearts” Olivier Bugge Coutté – “The Worst Person in the World,” “Thelma” Shannon Baker Davis – “The Obituary of Tunde Johnson,” “The Photograph” Billy Fox – “Dolemite Is My Name,” “Hustle & Flow” Myron Kerstein – “tick, tick…BOOM!,” “Crazy Rich Asians” Jeremy Milton – “Encanto,” “Zootopia” Úna Ní Dhonghaíle – “Belfast,” “Stan & Ollie” Heike Parplies – “Invisible Life,” “Toni Erdmann” Joshua L. Pearson – “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised),” “What Happened, Miss Simone?” Peter Sciberras – “The Power of the Dog,” “The King” Aljernon Tunsil – “Attica,” “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution” Azusa Yamazaki – “Drive My Car,” “Asako I & II”

Stacey Morris – “Coming 2 America,” “Dolemite Is My Name”

Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Jacenda Burkett – “King Richard,” “Concussion” Nana Fischer – “Encounter,” “The Lost City of Z” Sean Flanigan – “The Many Saints of Newark,” “The Irishman” Massimo Gattabrusi – “Loving Pablo,” “Volver” Stephanie Ingram – “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” “It” Anna Carin Lock – “House of Gucci,” “Borg/McEnroe” Heike Merker – “The Matrix Resurrections,” “Anonymous” Stacey Morris – “Coming 2 America,” “Dolemite Is My Name” Justin Raleigh – “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” “Army of the Dead” Kerrie Smith – “Motherless Brooklyn,” “John Wick” Nadia Stacey – “Cruella,” “The Favourite” Julia Vernon – “Cruella,” “Maleficent” Wakana Yoshihara – “Belfast,” “Spencer”

Marketing and Public Relations Dana Archer Debra Birnbaum Tatiana Detlofson Bethan Anna Dixon Britta Gampper Jane Gibbs Sheri Goldberg Jonathan Helfgot Jessica Kolstad Cortney Lawson Vivek Mathur George Nicholis Stephanie Sarah Northen Jodie Magid Oriol Gina Pence Stephanie Dee Phillips Chrissy Quesada Stuart Robertson Jerry Rojas Evelyn Santana Sohini Sengupta Michelle Slavich James Verdesoto Katrina Wan Glen Erin Wyatt

Music Billie Eilish Baird O’Connell – “No Time to Die” Amie Doherty – “Spirit Untamed,” “The High Note” Lili Haydn – “Strip Down, Rise Up,” “Broken Kingdom” Leo Heiblum – “Maria Full of Grace,” “Frida” Natalie Holt – “Fever Dream,” “Journey’s End” Nathan Johnson – “Nightmare Alley,” “Knives Out” Jacobo Lieberman – “Maria Full of Grace,” “Frida” Ariel Rose Marx – “Shiva Baby,” “Rebel Hearts” Hesham Nazih – “The Guest,” “Born a King” Finneas O’Connell – “No Time to Die” Dan Romer – “Luca,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Nerida Tyson-Chew – “H Is for Happiness,” “Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid”

Producers Mariela Besuievsky – “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” “The Secret in Their Eyes” Cale Boyter – “Dune,” “Pacific Rim Uprising” Chad Burris – “Collisions,” “Drunktown’s Finest” Damon D’Oliveira – “The Grizzlies,” “Love Come Down” Luc Déry – “Gabrielle,” “Monsieur Lazhar” Michael Downey – “Elvis Walks Home,” “Light Thereafter” Yaël Fogiel – “Memoir of War,” “Latest News of the Cosmos” Cristina Gallego – “Birds of Passage,” “Embrace of the Serpent” Laetitia Gonzales – “Plot 35,” “Tournée” Pauline Gygax – “With the Wind,” “My Life as a Zucchini” Margot Hand – “Passing,” “Brittany Runs a Marathon” Jojo Hui – “Better Days,” “Dearest” Eva Jakobsen – “Miss Viborg,” “Godless” Lucas Joaquin – “Mayday,” “Love Is Strange” Lizette Jonjic – “12 Dares,” “Guerrilla” Thanassis Karathanos – “The Man Who Sold His Skin,” “Tulpan” Kim McCraw – “Drunken Birds,” “Incendies” Sev Ohanian – “Run,” “Searching” Christina Piovesan – “The Nest,” “Amreeka” Natalie Qasabian – “Run,” “All about Nina” Philippe Rousselet – “CODA,” “Source Code” Sara Silveira – “Good Manners,” “Vazante” James Stark – “Prayers for the Stolen,” “Mystery Train” Riccardo Tozzi – “La Nostra Vita,” “Don’t Move” Shih-Ching Tsou – “Red Rocket,” “The Florida Project” Nadia Turincev – “The Insult,” The Boss’s Daughter” Tim White – “King Richard,” “Ingrid Goes West” Trevor White – “King Richard,” “LBJ” Teruhisa Yamamoto – “Drive My Car,” “Wife of a Spy” Olena Yershova – “Brighton 4th,” “Volcano”

Production Design François Audouy – “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” “Ford v Ferrari” Laura Ballinger Gardner – “The Irishman,” “Joker” Chris Baugh – “Steve Jobs,” “Argo” Ellen Brill – “Being the Ricardos,” “Bombshell” Joanna Bush – “La La Land,” “Life of Pi” Christina Cecili – “Cyrano,” “A Quiet Place” John Coven – “The Lion King,” “Logan” Carol Flaisher – “Wonder Woman 1984,” “Miss Sloane” Sandy Hamilton – “tick, tick…BOOM!,” “Joker” Ellen Lampl – “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Jurassic World” Enrico Latella – “Tenet,” “All the Money in the World” Steven Lawrence – “Death on the Nile,” “Cinderella” Melissa Levander – “The Tender Bar,” “The High Note” Drew Petrotta – “The Suicide Squad,” “Captain Marvel” Jean-Vincent Puzos – “Jungle Cruise,” “Amour” Maya Shimoguchi – “Ford v Ferrari,” “Men in Black 3”

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” K.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”

Benjamin A. Burtt – “Dolittle,” “Black Panther”

Sound Douglas Axtell – “True Grit,” “I Am Sam” Nerio Barberis – “Violeta al Fin,” “Find a Boyfriend for My Wife...Please!” Amanda Beggs – “The Forever Purge,” “Finding ’Ohana” Adrian Bell – “Mothering Sunday,” “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” Joshua Berger – “King Richard,” “The Lost City of Z” Paul (Salty) Brincat – “The Invisible Man,” “The Thin Red Line” Tom Yong-Jae Burns – “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” “Blade Runner 2049” Benjamin A. Burtt – “Dolittle,” “Black Panther” Simon Chase – “Belfast,” “Artemis Fowl” Brian Chumney – “West Side Story,” “The Croods: A New Age” Richard Flynn – “The Power of the Dog,” “Slow West” Albert Gasser – “Straight Outta Compton,” “Dances With Wolves” Lewis Goldstein – “In the Heights,” “Hereditary” Theo Green – “Dune,” “Blade Runner 2049” James Harrison – “No Time to Die,” “Captain Phillips” John Hayes – “The King’s Man,” “Tom and Jerry” Ruth Hernandez – “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” “Brooklyn’s Finest” Huang Zheng – “Better Days,” “Chongqing Hot Pot” Thomas Huhn – “The Wife,” “White God” David Husby – “Tomorrowland,” “Elf” Allison Jackson – “Don’t Think Twice,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Paul Ledford – “One Night in Miami,” “Logan” Leff Lefferts – “Vivo,” “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” Nancy MacLeod – “The Revenant,” “The Hunger Games” Charles Maynes – “After Earth,” “Letters from Iwo Jima” Alan Meyerson – “Dune,” “Inception” Casey Stone – “Frozen,” “Tsotsi” Edward Tise – “Into the Wild,” “Full Metal Jacket” Jana Vance – “Cast Away,” “Saving Private Ryan” Tara Webb – “The Power of the Dog,” “Mortal Kombat” Waldir Xavier – “From Afar,” “Central Station” Denise Yarde – “Belfast,” “Dumbo”

Visual Effects Ivy Agregan – “India Sweets and Spices,” “Wakefield” Geeta Basantani – “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Vivo” Aharon Bourland – “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” “Venom” Ivan Busquets – “Malignant,” “The Irishman” Joe Ceballos – “Skyscraper,” “Thor: Ragnarok” Richard Anthony Clegg – “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms,” “Blade Runner 2049” Mark Curtis – “Sully,” “Spectre” Markus Degen – “The King’s Man,” “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” Jack Edjourian – “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Tenet” Eric Enderton – “Shark Tale,” “Jurassic Park” Marcos Fajardo Orellana – “Thor,” “Monster House” Joel Green – “No Time to Die,” “The Kid Who Would Be King” Earl Hibbert – “The Fate of the Furious,” “Guardians of the Galaxy” Hayley Hubbard – “The Old Guard,” “Dumbo” Maia Kayser – “Rango,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” Garrett Lam – “Limbo,” “Shock Wave 2” Jake Maymudes – “Dune,” “Terminator: Dark Fate” Catherine Ann Mullan – “Dumbo,” “Maleficent” Charlie Noble – “No Time to Die,” “Wonder Woman 1984” J. Alan Scott – “Finch,” “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” Tefft Smith – “Alice through the Looking Glass,” “Tomorrowland” Alan Travis – “Black Widow,” “The Irishman” Michael Van Eps – “Deepwater Horizon,” “Poseidon” Sean Noel Walker – “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” “Black Widow” Vernon Wilbert – “Stealth,” “I, Robot” Eric Jay Wong – “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Lucy” Kevin Wooley – “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” “Jurassic World” Wei Zheng – “Mank,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

Writers Zach Baylin – “King Richard” Henry Bean – “The Believer,” “Deep Cover” Pawo Choyning Dorji* – “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” Michael Grais – “Cool World,” “Poltergeist” Ted Griffin – “Ocean's Eleven,” “Ravenous” Ryusuke Hamaguchi* – “Drive My Car,” “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy” Jeremy O Harris – “Zola” Sian Harries Heder* – “CODA,” “Tallulah” Mike Jones – “Luca,” “Soul” Reema Kagti – “Gully Boy,” “Gold” Adele Lim – “Raya and the Last Dragon,” “Crazy Rich Asians” Craig Mazin – “Identity Thief,” “The Hangover Part II” Margaret Nagle – “With/In,” “The Good Lie” Takamasa Oe – “Drive My Car,” “Beautiful Method” Alex Ross Perry – “Her Smell,” “Listen Up Philip” Adam Rifkin – “Giuseppe Makes a Movie,” “Small Soldiers” Jordan Roberts – “Big Hero 6,” “3, 2, 1…Frankie Go Boom” Katie Silberman – “Booksmart,” “Isn’t It Romantic” Randi Mayem Singer – “Tooth Fairy,” “Mrs. Doubtfire” Jon Spaihts – “Dune,” “Doctor Strange” Małgorzata Szumowska – “Never Gonna Snow Again,” “Elles” Mark A. Victor – “Cool World,” “Poltergeist”

Members-at-Large Keith Adams Josiah Akinyele Richard Berger Andrew Birch Andrew Cannava George Drakoulias Andrew Dunlap Erin Dusseault James Farrell Valerie Flueger Veras Andy Fowler Glenn Kiser Anne Lai Susan Lazarus Joe Machota Leonard Maltin Deborah McIntosh Julia Michels Daniel Rabinow Ilda Santiago Danie Streisand Matt Sullivan Anne Lajla Utsi Matt Vioral Michael Zink

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via Today Bharat TNM spoke to a few fan club members across industries on the welfare activities they do in the name of their favourite star. Nowhere else in the world would you be able to witness a group of people building a temple to worship an actor. Nowhere else in the world would you be able to see youngsters pitching in lakhs worth of money to erect a gigantic cutout of their favourite star just to celebrate the release of his new film. And nowhere else would you hear the news of fans donating several lakhs worth of life-saving medical equipment in the name of their star. Nowhere else but in India. The star’s image and the existence of these fan clubs are reciprocal. If the star’s power is pitched on these clubs, the fan clubs in turn depend on their star’s image to come up with these extravagant displays. When it comes to the southern states, fan clubs are eventually channelled to propel the star into politics. MGR did it, Vijayakanth, Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi, Pawan Kalyan and Kamal Haasan are doing it and others to come too will follow suit. And what do these fan clubs do? In addition to erecting banners and earning a disrepute for engaging in toxic and abusive online wars, fan clubs also organise welfare programs — from blood donation drives to cleaning up lakes. TNM spoke to a few fan club members across industries to understand some of the welfare activities they do in the name of their star. Goodwill gestures of fan clubs On September 2 this year, to mark actor and politician “Power star” Pawan Kalyan’s 49th birthday, his fans donated over 600 oxygen cylinders, worth estimated to be Rs 70 lakh, to government hospitals in Andhra Pradesh and in Hyderabad city. The President of the Jana Sena Party responded by saying that he was overwhelmed by the gesture of the “Jana Sainiks” across the world. Similarly, during Chiranjeevi’s 65th birthday this August, fans took to planting trees and donating blood. Only in May this year, Thiruvananthapuram District Mohanlal Fans Association pledged to donate their organs to the state run 'Mrithasanjivini' programme, a gesture that gained a nod from State Health Minister KK Shailaja. In March 2019, Vijay fans in Kerala called Kollam Nanbans, were of great help during the devastating floods that year. A wide network of fans across the state mobilised to help in relief camps while it was reported that the actor himself had routed donations through the fans’ accounts. The same year across all districts in Tamil Nadu, Thalapathy Vijay Vilaiyilla Virundhagams (Thalapathy Vijay free banquet) were launched. Here, about 100 residents are fed free breakfast daily, even during pandemic. This is among the other activities that the “Thalapathy” fan club members do. “We also distribute tailoring machines to women, organise health camps, hold free banquets, renovate schools and other such welfare programs,” a Vijay Makkal Iyakkam member tells TNM. Fan clubs turned welfare associations Fan clubs have been around since the time of idol worship began in Indian cinema. But fan clubs have been turned into welfare associations when the star expresses political ambitions. Around 2009, the actor Vijay’s fan clubs were brought together as a “narpani iyakkam” (welfare association) later turning into Vijay Makkal Iyakkam, a registered welfare association with branches across the state. Speaking to TNM, a member from Vijay Makkal Iyakkam shares, “It is like a mini party. We have a youth wing, students wing, etc. We have district heads and a main head. The head office in Panayur where we have annual meets.” While the word is that his fan clubs have been working silently, over the past few years, these activities have gained some attention, especially since Vijay himself has been making politically loaded statements, both in his films and during his annual public appearances. Most often, especially when it comes to Tamil Nadu and Telugu speaking states, these fan clubs have proven to be a launchpad for the star’s eventual plunge into politics. Case in point is Rajinikanth’s Rajini Makkal Mandram (RMM). When the actor announced that he would be entering politics in 2017, his fan clubs were converted into party outfits. The sheer number of members attached to RMM and their present structure as a political outfit have helped in distributing relief and indulging in other charity work. Another interesting observation is with actor Kamal Haasan’s fan clubs that were converted into Narpani Iyakkam well before he expressed his intent to join politics. Members from his welfare association have reportedly pointed out their role during the 2004 Tsunami and the 2015 floods. Kamal’s Narpani Iyakkam came in handy to the star when he launched his party Makkal Needhi Maiam in 2018. Actor Suriya, on the other hand, features more prominently as an individual when it comes to charity, his fan clubs taking a backseat. The star along with his family members father Sivakumar and brother Karthi, run the Agaram Foundation solely to help children from working-class families and difficult backgrounds gain access to quality education. The star himself makes donations and his fan club activities are mostly routed through his Foundation. However, stars like Ajith, who maintain a very low-key profile and resolutely keep away from making any political statements, have disbanded their fan clubs. According to those in the field, his fans as individuals might indulge in charity. In Malayalam, Mammootty Fans and Welfare Association International (MFWAI) was founded in 1989, soon after the release of the movie Vadakkan Veeragatha. Arun, state president of the MFWAI says, “I have heard that when the idea of a fans association was suggested to Mammukka, he said that he didn’t want an association of fans for the sake of it but one that will help people out. That’s why you find ‘welfare’ in the name.” Who decides on campaigns? The kind of charity work that fans indulge in regularly is mostly decided by their leaders. Vignesh, who is Kancheepuram head of the Vijay Sethupathi Fan Club in Tamil Nadu talks about cleaning a lake in their district. “We have about 1000 members who are active part of the fan club so when we indulge in some welfare activity, we ask them to pitch in whatever they can, Rs 50, Rs 100. Last time we were able to clean a lake in Kancheepuram and people in the village were very happy,” says the 24-year-old. Blood donation drives are common among all fan clubs. For Mammootty’s birthday this year – on September 7 – blood donation camps were organised in more than one place of all 14 districts in Kerala. “All it needs is your time. Numbers of our members are enlisted with most major blood banks. For other charity work, we use funds that we collect among ourselves – there are working members and students. There are district and state-level committees. When it’s an emergency and something big, we coordinate the districts together,” Arun says. Some have gone beyond. A Mahesh Babu fan club member recalls, “We were able to collect Rs 5 lakh for the spinal cord surgery for a 15-year-old in August last year. Mahesh Babu also donated for this and NTR fans have also collaborated for the donation. The girl had multiple surgeries, and this was the last one, where she received help from fans, after they heard about her in social media,” he explains. In the name of the star Money for these events are usually pooled in by the fans. “Vijay sir always tells us to not go beyond what we can afford. He is against us taking loans for organising such programs. He says, “Prioritise your family first and only if you can, indulge in charity.”,” says the Vijay Makkal Iyakkam member. In Tamil Nadu, fan clubs for Dhanush, Vijay Sethupathi too are growing. “Fans indulge in charity work based on their star’s face value and based on how they interact with fans. Not every star is close to their fan club,” says the Vijay Makkal Iyakkam member. Vijay Sethupathi’s fan Vignesh puts it better. “He may not be interested in joining politics now but we always do. Any fan would want to see their star as a leader one day. Be it Rajini or Vijay. When fan clubs are seriously involved in welfare measures it means they would like to see their star become a leader one day.” But on a basic level, we ask, why do fans do what they do in the name of their star? “I like him (Vijay Sethupathi). I have seen what the previous generation used to do. I remember what my father used to do as a Rajini fan. I’ve seen my neighbour Annas (older brothers) do it for Vijay. Now I do it for my star. It is more of a habit. But there are people who are not part of any fan clubs but continue to do welfare in the name of the star. We like him and would like to do good in his name,” he offers.

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President Donald Trump listens to Secretary of Deny Mike Pompeo during a cabinet assembly on the Cabinet Room of the White Dwelling October 21, 2019, in Washington, DC.

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The revenge of the State Department

In their testimonies, the diplomats have described being sidelined on Ukraine policy as Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and other Trump political appointees — apparently at the president’s direction — pursued a “shadow” foreign policy that included withholding some $400 million in military aid to Kyiv. Their boss, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, has attacked the House process as “ troubling” and defended the legitimacy of Giuliani’s efforts.

Overall, the diplomats’ testimony has bolstered allegations that Trump tried to improperly pressure Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a political rival. But some also used the platform to air long-held grievances over Trump and his aides’ treatment of the State Department’s career staffers, several of whom were demoted or sidelined following attacks by the conservative media.

The defiance has risks: that it will deepen the rift between Trump and the State Department while fueling more global confusion over U.S. foreign policy positions. Many of Trump’s top aides view Foggy Bottom as a den of Democratic intrigue — a long- and widely held suspicion on the right with roots in the Cold War.

For now, though, it feels pretty good to hit back.

“People are fed up,” said Laura Kennedy, a former U.S. ambassador who remains in touch with officials still in the State Department. “There’s a deep well of resentment that’s just bubbled toward the top.”

There’s also anxiety.

Serving diplomats say the impeachment inquiry has become a constant source of questions from their foreign counterparts and overseas press, and that it’s a challenging issue to explain, especially given the State Department’s role.

Former officials say they’re fielding calls from still-serving diplomats worried about their futures. The possibility that the impeachment inquiry could rope in junior diplomats, or grow beyond Ukraine and Europe, isn’t far from people’s minds. A private Facebook group for Foreign Service officers considering quitting their jobs has seen a significant jump in participants.

“Lower-level people are still terrified they’ll be wrapped up in this,” a former State official said. “They’re glad to see Masha, Mike and George wave the flag for the Foreign Service but still not convinced people won’t get screwed.”

“Masha” is a reference to Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who gave a deposition to lawmakers on Oct. 11 under subpoena from the investigating House committees and despite State Department objections. Her opening statement decried Trump’s machinations on Ukraine while calling for more support for the Foreign Service.

Yovanovitch was recalled from Ukraine in May, a few months before her tenure was up, after Trump allies spread rumors that she was biased against the president. In a July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s leader that’s at the heart of the impeachment inquiry, Trump called her “bad news” and said she was “going to go through some things.”

Yovanovitch told lawmakers that, in her 30-plus years as a diplomat, she always stuck to the required ethos of non-partisanship. So she was “incredulous” at being recalled over “false claims.” She warned that the State Department is being “attacked and hollowed out from within” and stressed that the repercussions go beyond Foggy Bottom.

The harm will also “come when those diplomats who soldier on and do their best to represent our nation face partners abroad who question whether the ambassador truly speaks for the president and can be counted upon as a reliable partner,” she said in her opening statement.

Yovanovitch was followed on Capitol Hill by two other prominent career Foreign Service officers: George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary whose portfolio includes Ukraine; and Michael McKinley, who just days ago resigned as a senior adviser to Pompeo. Three other State Department officials — Bill Taylor, now the top U.S. diplomat in Kyiv; Philip Reeker, the acting assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs; and Suriya Jayanti, a Foreign Service officer based in Kyiv — have been summoned to testify; others could follow.

Kent described being told by a superior to “lay low” on Ukraine policy as Giuliani, the politically appointed U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and others allegedly ignored established diplomatic paths to pursue questionable interests in Ukraine.

McKinley told impeachment investigators that he resigned in part because of Trump’s attacks on Yovanovitch and Pompeo’s seeming unwillingness to protect career diplomats from political retaliation. McKinley had grown to find the situation “unbearable,” a former colleague told POLITICO.

Like Yovanovitch, Kent testified in defiance of instructions from the White House and Pompeo. Both remain on the State Department payroll.

Hill staffers have indicated that they subpoenaed the diplomats to give them some cover so they could cooperate. McKinley, having resigned from State, testified voluntarily.

A current State official said that, within the department, Yovanovitch and Kent in particular are being viewed with “strong respect and sympathy.” They are seen as “career public servants who became collateral damage in political issues,” the staffer said, adding that there’s a “pretty long line of them in this administration.”

McKinley, too, is viewed in positive terms for testifying, but many career staffers are wondering why it took him so long to resign — Yovanovitch was, after all, recalled around five months ago.

Neither the State Department nor the White House responded to a request for comment on this story. On Thursday, however, Trump’s acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, took a shot at the diplomats who testified, calling them “career bureaucrats who are saying, ‘You know what? I don’t like President Trump’s politics so I’m going to participate in this witch hunt.’”

Also testifying this month were Sondland, a Trump donor who was named an ambassador despite no diplomatic experience; and Kurt Volker, a former Foreign Service officer who took on an unpaid political appointment as a special U.S. envoy tasked with shepherding peace talks between Ukraine and Russia. Volker quit the position before testifying.

The inquiry’s revelations have alarmed even the most diplomatic of diplomats.

In a furious essay in Foreign Affairs, William Burns, a highly regarded and famously measured Foreign Service veteran who now leads the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, turned heads in Washington when he compared Trump’s treatment of U.S. diplomats to the days of communist-hunting led by Joseph McCarthy.

“The damage from this assault — coming from within the executive branch itself, after nearly three years of unceasing diplomatic self-sabotage, and at a particularly fragile geopolitical moment — will likely prove to be even more severe to both diplomatic tradecraft and U.S. foreign policy,” Burns warned in the essay, which was widely read at the State Department.

Department employees say that in Foggy Bottom and beyond, civil and Foreign Service officers are doing their jobs and there are no work stoppages or visible expressions of protest. For instance, U.S. officials smoothly carried out their duties at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, whose main session last month coincided with the Democrats’ launch of the impeachment inquiry.

Yet the frustration inside the department has occasionally spilled out into public, even before the Ukraine revelations placed the Trump administration’s unorthodox approach to diplomacy at the heart of the impeachment inquiry.

In August, two Foreign Service officers announced their departures in tough-worded op-eds describing their deep disappointment with Trump.

One dismissed the belief, widespread among Trump aides, that a “Deep State” exists within the federal bureaucracy that is determined to thwart Trump’s agenda. “If the resistance does exist, it should be clear by this point that it has failed,” wrote the outgoing diplomat, Chuck Park.

The next month, another U.S. diplomat argued in an op-ed that now’s the time to stay. “If we all leave when it gets hard, who will be left to champion American diplomacy?” wrote Elizabeth Fitzsimmons, a deputy assistant secretary of State.

Much of the wrath is directed at Pompeo.

State Department employees say they’re furious that he hasn’t publicly supported Yovanovitch, who testified that the deputy secretary of state, John Sullivan, admitted to her that she’d “done nothing wrong” but was being recalled anyway. (Pompeo declined to discuss Yovanovitch in an interview with POLITICO on Friday.)

State Department staffers also are livid that Pompeo has framed his resistance to congressional demands for information as being about protecting U.S. diplomats.

Pompeo took over the department in April 2018, after morale had sunk unusually low under Trump’s first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson. Tillerson had largely sidelined career diplomats and seemed willing to go along with steep budget cuts Trump proposed for the State Department – cuts Congress has repeatedly blocked.

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