{"id":760055,"date":"2026-06-25T11:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/760055\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:01:12","slug":"jacob-elordi-jenna-ortega-and-stephen-fry-among-new-invited-oscar-voters-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/760055\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Elordi, Jenna Ortega and Stephen Fry among new invited Oscar voters | Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/jacob-elordi\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Elordi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/jenna-ortega\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jenna Ortega<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/stephen-fry\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Fry<\/a> are among the 529 creatives invited to join this year\u2019s member class of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cWe are delighted to invite this remarkable group of film artists and professionals from around the world to join the Academy,\u201d said CEO Bill Kramer and Academy president Lynette Howell Taylor in a statement. \u201cThrough their commitment to filmmaking, this year\u2019s exceptionally talented class has made significant contributions to our global movie industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Elordi was nominated for his first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/oscars\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar<\/a> earlier this year for his transformative performance as the Creature in Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein. Ortega has been on a hot streak with record-breaking viewership for the Wednesday series and an upcoming role in the upcoming film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s Klara and the Sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Meanwhile, Fry is an outlier to many of this year\u2019s younger creatives. While best known for British TV roles, he has starred in more than a dozen Hollywood productions including Gosford Park, V for Vendetta and Love &amp; Friendship. He was also nominated for a best actor Golden Globe award for 1998\u2019s Wilde, and has hosted the Bafta awards 12 times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The list also features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/sep\/18\/im-a-hustler-a-grinder-teyana-taylor-on-music-motherhood-and-one-battle-after-another\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teyana Taylor<\/a>, who was also nominated in this year\u2019s best supporting actress category but lost out to Amy Madigan in Weapons. Also invited is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2025\/nov\/01\/josh-oconnor-the-shape-shifting-star-who-became-cinemas-most-wanted\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh O\u2019Connor<\/a>, who starred in the Netflix hit Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and was recently seen in Steven Spielberg\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/jun\/09\/disclosure-day-review-close-encounters-of-a-deferred-kind-in-spielbergs-conspiracy-spectacular\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disclosure Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Other creatives include Mia Goth, Elordi\u2019s co-star in Frankenstein, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2024\/mar\/01\/jon-bernthal-on-walking-through-fire-for-ava-duvernay-origin-isabel-wilkerson\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Bernthal<\/a>, the actor who was recently seen in Broadway\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2026\/mar\/31\/dog-day-afternoon-review-jon-bernthal-ebon-moss-bachrach\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dog Day Afternoon<\/a> and is set for summer movie screens with roles in Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Christopher Nolan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/the-odyssey\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Odyssey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Additional names from this year\u2019s Oscar race include the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/aug\/06\/weapons-review-zach-creggers\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weapons<\/a> director and actor Zach Cregger and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/julia-garner\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Garner<\/a>, as well as the KPop Demon Hunters co-directors Chris Appelhans and Maggie Kang and the singing star Ejae.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">If all invitations are accepted, the total number of Academy members will be 11,319 while the number of voting members will rise to 10,338. It would also make the Academy members 36% women, 25% from underrepresented communities and 22% international.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The Oscars recently announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/may\/01\/oscars-changes-double-acting-nominations-ai\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rule changes<\/a> ahead of the 2027 awards season that banned acting and writing awards for work done by AI, and allowed performers to receive multiple nominations in the same category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Last year, the Academy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/jun\/26\/new-academy-members\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">invited<\/a> Stephen Graham, Jodie Comer and Ariana Grande to join.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Elordi, Jenna Ortega and Stephen Fry are among the 529 creatives invited to join this year\u2019s member&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-760055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}