{"id":1449,"date":"2019-07-15T00:08:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.biz-america.com\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2019-07-15T00:09:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:09:58","slug":"lady-gaga-letitia-wright-among-hundreds-invited-to-join-film-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga, Letitia Wright among hundreds invited to join film academy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The group that hands out the Oscars said on Monday it had invited 842 new members from 59 countries including Lady Gaga, Sterling K Brown and Letitia Wright as the organisation strives to further diversify its ranks. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts &amp; Sciences said half of the new invitees were women and 29% were people of color. If all accept, it will bring total membership to more than 9,000 &#8211; 32% of them female and 16% of them people of color.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other invitees include Adele, Claire Foy, Tom Holland and Elisabeth Moss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2016, the academy launched a campaign to diversify its membership after criticism that its largely white, male and older roster of film industry professionals was a barrier to racial and gender equality among Oscar winners and nominees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next Academy Awards ceremony is scheduled for Feb 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: 91st Academy Awards \u2013 Vanity Fair \u2013 Beverly Hills, California, US, Feb 24, 2019 \u2013 Lady Gaga holds her award for Best Original Song &#8220;Shallow&#8221;. REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}