📰 Taylor Swift, Ke Huy Quan & Austin Butler join Hollywood's Film Academy 📰

 

Pop singer Taylor Swift alongside ‘Elvis’ star Austin Butler and award-winning supporting actor Ke Huy Quan among 300 others, were selected to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The group is responsible for awarding the Oscars.

''Swift, 33, was invited to join the academy's music branch after writing songs for the 2022 movie "Where the Crawdads Sing" soundtracks and the 2019 film adaptation of the musical "Cats."

Quan, 51, won the supporting actor trophy this year for his role in best picture winner "Everything Everywhere All at Once." His Oscar-nominated co-star Stephanie Hsu, 32, also was selected to join the academy, along with the movie's directors, 35-year-old Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, 36 - known as "the Daniels."

Butler, 31, was nominated for an Oscar this year for his portrayal of Elvis Presley.

The academy, which has more than 10,000 members, has taken steps to diversify its membership since the #OscarsSoWhite outcry in 2015.

The group said 40% of the new members identified as women, 34% belonged to underrepresented ethnic or racial communities, and 52% were from 50 countries and territories outside the United States.''