Oscar invites Brazilians Maeve Jinkings and Juliana Rojas to vote

Every year after the ceremony of OscarThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences it usually includes hundreds of new names to add to the voter list. In 2024, the institution announced around 500 new people on the list, such as Brazilians Maeve Jinkings It is Juliana Rojas.

It is worth remembering how Maeve Jinkings She is an actress in films such as Tollone of the best national films of 2023, The Sound Aroundr (2012) and Coal (2022). Already Juliana Rojas stood out as a director of features such as Good Manners (2017) and Symphony of the Necropolis (2014). In total, eight Brazilians were added to the Oscar Academy:

• Maeve Jinkings – actors
• Juliana Rojas – directors
• Jose Joffily (Symphony of a Common Man) – documentaries
• Jorge Bodansky (Amazon, the New Minamata?) – documentaries
• Carlos Segundo (big Bang) – animation
• Plínio Prophet (Provisional Measure) – music
• Renata de Almeida Magalhães (The Great Mystical Circus) – producers
• Tatiana Leite (Rule 34) – producers

In addition Academy included several statuette-winning artists from the Oscars 2024as James Price, Shona Heath It is Zsuzsa Mihalek (production designers of Poor Creatures), Da’Vine Joy Randolph (supporting actress in The Rejected), Tatsuji Nojima, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi It is Takashi Yamazaki (visual effects team Godzilla Minus One), etc.

In a press statement (via Variety), the CEO Bill Kramer and president Janet Yang talked about the additions. “We are excited to welcome this year’s team of new members to Academy. These talented artists and professionals from around the world have made a significant impact on our film community,” they said.