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Cheryl Boone Isaacs (AMPAS president)

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I believe we all distinctly remember #OscarsSoWhite. And while 2014 and 2015 wer terrible years in terms of the Academy’s overall image, behind the scenes the group, likely at the charge of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, was working to address the diversity issue.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, in 2015, they extended invitations to 322 making a concentrated effort to involve more people of color and women. In 2016, they more than doubled the number with 683 invitations. And this year, they sent out 774.

The Academy boasts that this year they invitees include people from 7 different countries, is 39 percent female and 30 percent people of color.

And among the number are a group of Black women many of us have been watching on the screen or unknowingly admiring their work behind it.

Check out the invitees on the following pages.

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