Via the Wall St. Journal: a breakdown of the 5,777 active voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences:
So if we cut out the executives, the PR folks and the members at large…we’d be left with…still a pretty useless group of decision-makers.
- 1,205 actors
- 452 producers
- 437 executives
- 405 sound
- 382 writers
- 374 art directors
- 368 public relations (fucked up, if you ask me)
- 366 directors (see above. More PR folks than fucking DIRECTORS. More PR folks than any of the occupations below. Not fucked up? No, it’s fucked up. Royally fucked up.)
- 340 short films / feature animation
- 279 visual effects
- 245 members-at-large
- 234 music
- 221 film editors
- 200 cinematographers
- 151 documentary
- 118 hair / makeup
(Via the WSJ; source - AMPAS)
