Una svolta molto importante quella intrapresa dall'organizzazione americana semplicemente conosciuta come Academy, quella che assegna gli Oscar del cinema, con più di 900 nuovi membri e molti del settore Animazione ed Effetti Speciali.
Ricordiamo che i membri rappresentano soprattutto la forza votante di categorie e titoli in tutte le fasi della kermesse, dalle long alle short list.
L'organizzazione dunque cresce sempre di più includendo quest'anno ben 928 nuovi membri di cui il 49% di sesso femminile, così da ampliare e diventare sempre più equa sotto molti aspetti.
Uno di quelli più importanti riguarda il settore dell'Animazione e degli Effetti speciali, con oltre 150 nuovi membri provenienti da tutto il mondo, compresi artisti giapponesi.
Tra questi l'Academy adesso annovererà:
- Mamoru Hosoda - regista (The Boy and The Beast, Summer Wars)
- Makoto Shinkai - regista (Your Name, 5 Centimetri per Secondo)
- Atsuko Hirayanagi - regista (Oh Lucy!)
- Sunao Katabuchi - regista (In This Corner of the World, Mai Mai Miracle)
- Ru Kuwahata - regista (Negative Space)
- Sion Sono - regista (Tokyo Vampire Hotel, The Whispering Star)
- Yoko Kanno - musicista (Macross Plus, Cowboy Bebop)
- Keiko Mitsumatsu - designer (Nobody Knows)
Tra i più noti ricordiamo anche:
- Paul Young - Co-fondatore dello studios irlandese Cartoon Saloon (La Canzone del Mare)
- Dorota Kobiela - regista (Loving Vincent)
- Sergio Pablos - animatore/produttore (Rio, Cattivissimo Me )
..e molti altri. Ecco la lista completa del settore Animazione:
- Allison Abbate (Frankenweenie, The Iron Giant)
- Kim Adams (Rain or Shine, Small Fry)
- Ali Asgari (Gaze, The Silence)
- Katja Benrath (Watu Wote/All of Us, Tilda)
- Rose Bond (Electroflux, Cerridwen's Gift)
- Jongnic Bontemps (The Big Chop, There Are Ghosts)
- Paul Briggs (Big Hero 6, Frozen)
- Nick Bruno (The Peanuts Movie, Ice Age Continental Drift)
- Spela Cadez (Nighthawk, Boles)
- Sofia Carrillo (Cerulia, La Casa Triste)
- Scott Carroll (Ferdinand, The Peanuts Movie)
- Martine Chartrand (MacPherson, Ame Noire)
- Bruno Chauffard (Despicable Me 3, The Secret Life of Pets)
- Yarr\ow Cheney (The Secret Life of Pets, Despicable Me)
- Teresa Cheng (Shrek Forever After, Madagascar)
- Pedro Collantes (Serori, Eskiper)
- Melanie Coombs (Mary and Max, Harvie Krumpet)
- Michèle Cournoyer (Accordéon, The Hat)
- Jill Culton (Open Season, Monsters, Inc.)
- Cassidy Curtis (How to Train Your Dragon, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa)
- Jennifer Dahlman (Coin Operated, Penguins of Madagascar)
- Kevin Deters (Olaf's Frozen Adventure, The Ballad of Nessie)
- Karen Disher (Rio, Surviving Sid)
- Ann Marie Fleming (Window Horses, Blue Skies)
- Nick Fletcher (Trolls, Home)
- Kirk Garfield (Ferdinand, Rio 2)
- Danis Goulet (Barefoot, Wapawekka)
- Carlos Grangel (Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, Shark Tale)
- Hamish Grieve (Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie, Rise of the Guardians)
- Nicole Grindle (Incredibles 2, Sanjay's Super Team)
- Yasser Hamed (Moana, Big Hero 6)
- Harry Hitner (Ferdinand, Rio)
- Brent Homman (Olaf's Frozen Adventure, Big Hero 6)
- Daisy Jacobs (The Full Story, The Bigger Picture)
- Jeong Dahee (Man on the Chair, The Empty)
- Yvette Kaplan (Ice Age, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America)
- Jan Lachauer (Revolting Rhymes, Room on the Broom)
- Josh Lawson (The Eleven O'Clock, After the Credits)
- Pierre Leduc (Sing, Minions)
- Lei Lei (Hand-Colored No. 2, Recycled)
- Anthony Leo (The Breadwinner)
- Alexander Levenson (Ferdinand, The Peanuts Movie)
- Li Jie (Coal Story, Three Pieces of Sincere Advice)
- Liu Jian (Have a Nice Day, Look at This Man)
- Adolph Lusinsky (Moana, Big Hero 6)
- Maggie Malone (Big Hero 6, The Princess and the Frog)
- Joe Mancewicz (Alvin and the Chipmunks, Happy Feet)
- Pam Marsden Siragusa (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Dinosaur)
- Mauro Mueller (A World for Raùl, Ge.hen'nah)
- Vincent Di Nguyen (The Peanuts Movie, Surviving Sid)
- Fredrik Nilsson (The Boss Baby, The Croods)
- Kevin M. Ochs (How to Train Your Dragon 2, Kung Fu Panda 2)
- Ngozi Onwurah (Hang Time, The Body Beautiful)
- Mauricio Osaki (My Father's Truck, The Dust of Your Photos)
- Chris Overton (The Silent Child, Dalston Heath)
- Nina Paley (Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, Sita Sings the Blues)
- Michaela Pavlátová (Tram, Reci, Reci, Reci)
- Ruben Perez (The Boss Baby, Penguins of Madagascar)
- Regina Pessoa (Kali the Little Vampire, Tragic Story with Happy Ending)
- Suzan Pitt (Pinball, Visitation)
- Bobby Podesta (Cars 3, Toy Story 3)
- Max Porter (Negative Space, Something Left, Something Taken)
- Carlos Fernandez Puertolas (The Boss Baby, Home)
- Joanna Quinn (Dreams and Desires: Family Ties, Famous Fred)
- Eric Ramsey (Trolls, Turbo)
- Vanitha Rangaraju (The Boss Baby, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted)
- Jeffrey R. Ranjo (Frozen, Surf's Up)
- Timothy Reckart (The Star, Head over Heels)
- Tobias Rosen (Watu Wote/All of Us, Feuerkind)
- Farnoosh Samadi (Gaze, The Silence)
- Gini Cruz Santos (Coco, The Good Dinosaur)
- Jakob Schuh (Revolting Rhymes, The Gruffalo)
- Georges Schwizgebel (Erlking, Romance)
- Yuriko Senoo (The Star, The Pirate Fairy)
- Carla Shelley (Early Man, Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit)
- Rachel Shenton (The Silent Child, The Winter's Club)
- Amy Lawson Smeed (Moana, Tangled)
- Tony Smeed (Zootopia, Frozen)
- Keith L. Smith (Post Life, Island Song)
- Patrick Smith (Puppet, Handshake)
- Josh Staub (Inner Workings, Feast)
- Stacey Steers (Edge of Alchemy, Night Hunter)
- Chris Stover (Turbo, Foodfight)
- Mark Swift (Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie, Penguins of Madagascar)
- Shannon Tindle (Kubo and the Two Strings, Curious George)
- Karen Rupert Toliver (Ferdinand, Rio)
- Cilia Van Dijk (The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, Anna & Bella)
- Cesar Velazquez (Zootopia, Wreck-It Ralph)
- Dina Velikovskaya (About a Mother, My Strange Grandfather)
- John Walker (Incredibles 2, The Incredibles)
- Dick Walsh (The Boss Baby, Shrek Forever After)
- Dave Walvoord (How to Train Your Dragon 2, Kung Fu Panda 2)
- Hugh Welchman (Loving Vincent, Peter & the Wolf)
- Stevie Wermers-Skelton (Olaf's Frozen Adventure, The Ballad of Nessie)
- Carey Williams (Emergency, Cherry Waves)
- Larry Y. Wu (Moana, Big Hero 6)
- Jennifer Yu (Moana, Wreck-It Ralph)
- Kathy Zielinski (The Road to El Dorado, The Hunchback of Notre Dame)