In response to the growing calls for diversity among its members, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences named three new governors to its 51-member board.
Screenwriter Gregory Nava, who is of Mexican and Basque heritage, African-American director Reginald Hudlin, and Asian-American animator Jennifer Yuh Nelson were appointed after academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs promised to expand the group’s leadership earlier this year.
