Hungarian expert invited to the American Film Academy

Makeup supervisor Erzsébet Forgács has been elected to the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). This means that her vote will also determine which film will win an Oscar in 2024.

This year, the Academy has recruited 398 film professionals to its illustrious team of professionals. Forgács will strengthen the section for make-up artists and hairstylists, Index reports.

Erzsébet Forgács has previously worked on films such as Az ajtó (The Door), Saul fia (Son of Saul), Napszállta (Sunset) and Csodálatos Júlia (Being Julia).

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences headquarters in Beverly Hills, California. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Downtowngal

According to the list on the Academy’s website, this year’s list of invitees includes several recent Oscar winners. Among them are the writer-director duo of Everything Everywhere All at Once, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheiner, the film’s producer Jonathan Wang and one of the actors, Ke Huy Quan, as well as the director of All Quiet on the Western Front, Edward Berger, and his cinematographer James Friend.

New members of the Academy’s music section include big names such as Taylor Swift, The Weeknd and David Byrne.

If everyone accepts the invitation, the number of members of the Academy will rise to 10,817, of whom 9,375 will be eligible to vote in next year’s Oscars, Index explains.