Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Betty White, Wonder Woman Gal Gadot and Atlanta creator and star Donald Glover are part of a diverse and record-setting 2017 class for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The governing body for the Oscars announced the list of 774 new members from 57 countries on Wednesday. The new class exceeds last year’s record crop (683) and is composed of 39% women (marking a 359% increase in the number of women invited to join from 2015 to 2017) and 30% people of color (a 331% increase since 2015).
Other notable new members: Debbie Allen, Riz Ahmed, Priyanka Chopra, John Cho, Rebel Wilson, Kristen Stewart, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ruth Negga, Zoë Kravitz, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth.
Increasing diversity within the group has been a major initiative for Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and CEO Dawn Hudson since the outcry resulting from #OscarsSoWhite in January 2016, when the Academy nominated an entirely white slate of actors for a second year in a row.
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