getty images The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is delivering on its promise to diversify its membership. Today the organization extended 683 membership invitations to actors, filmmakers and executives alike. Of that group, 41 percent are people of color and 46 percent are female. According to the Academy’s website, this means that the […]

In the late 1960s, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences faced an identity crisis as the taste of its members, many of them…