Selton Mello is invited to the Academy that organizes the Oscars; see other Brazilians from the list

Selton Mello and other Brazilians were invited to be members of the Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The list released this Tuesday, 28, brings 397 people from 54 countries, including seven Brazilians, according to G1.

In addition to honeythe directors Bruno BarretoJeferson De and Emilio Domingos – ultimately responsible for Favela Is Fashion (2019) – are also on the list, along with the producer Sara Silveirathe executive Ilda Santiago and the sound engineer Waldir Xavier.

If all the personalities accept the invitation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Hollywood will have 10,665 members who can vote in the categories of the Oscar from the 2023 edition.

This year’s Academy selection appears to be looking for more inclusion, as 44% of the invitations went to women, 37% to people from underrepresented ethnic groups and about 50% to people outside the United States. The list also contains 71 Oscar nominees and 15 winners.

Samuel L. Jackson ‘would rather be Nick Fury’ than win an Oscar

Samuel L. Jackson won only one Oscar throughout his career and was an honorary award. However, he doesn’t seem to mind this as he is more concerned with having fun playing Nick Fury at Marvel or being a jedi in Star Wars than to go after “win-win” papers. Oscar.”

“I’m just as tired as I wanted to be about this, you know, of thinking ‘well, I should have won a Oscar for this or for that and it did not happen.’ Once I got over it years ago, it wasn’t a big deal to me anymore.” Jackson said in an interview with Los Angeles Times.

The actor added: “I always have fun going to the Oscar. I always try to win a gift basket for being there. I give things to my relatives; my daughter and my wife took things for them. It’s nice… But other than that, I’m over it.” Jackson, who interprets Nick Fury at the MCU a decade ago and has also starred in films from Star Warswould rather be happy in the roles than accepting them just for prizes.

“I will never leave Oscar be a measure of my success or failure as an actor. My success criterion is my happiness: Am I satisfied with what I’m doing? So I’m not going to make movies to chase statuettes. You know, ‘if you make this movie, you’ll win a Oscar.’ No thank you. I prefer to be Nick Fury. Or have fun being Mace Windu with a lightsaber in my hand,” he said.