The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the organization of entertainment professionals and dance-number-inflicting sadists behind the yearly Oscar broadcast, have for the first time publicized their list of invitees to the organization. Academy President Frank Pierson thinks that the publication of the list honors the recipients of the invitations and reflects some sort of new, more-stringent standard for acceptance into their magic club, blah blah blah. We just can't wait until someone leaks us Sean Penn's urine-soaked doodle of an extended middle finger over the "No" box.

A (very) partial list of invitees, sure to marginalize some of Hollywood's below-the-line workers, is after the jump.

Actors Shohreh Aghdashloo Paul Bettany Keisha Castle-Hughes Patricia Clarkson Keith David Hope Davis Maggie Gyllenhaal Scarlett Johansson Viggo Mortensen Bill Nighy Sean Penn Audrey Tautou Ken Watanabe Treat Williams

Directors
Miguel Arteta
Gurinder Chadha
Peter Chelsom
Sofia Coppola
Michael Corrente
Ashutosh Gowariker
Shawn Adam Levy
Gillies MacKinnon
Fernando Meirelles
Bruce Robinson

Writers
Shari Springer Berman
L.M. Kit Carson
Sofia Coppola
D.V. DeVincentis
Steven Knight
Braulio Mantovani
Robert Pulcini

• Academy Invites 127 to Membership [AMPAS]
• More Star Trash: Sean Penn's Boring, Regular-Guy Garbage [Defamer]

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