Stephen Fry, Jacob Elordi, And More Invited To Become Oscars Voters

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 529 stars, including Jenna Ortega, Jacob Elordi, Teyana Taylor, and Stephen Fry, to become members.

The group, whose eligible members decide who’s the Academy Awards winners and nominees at the Oscars, boasts thousands of members who are divided into 19 branches.

If all the invitees take the Academy up on their offer, its voting members will rise to 10,338, The Guardian said.

Not all of these members are actors, either. Some are executives or PRs, while others work in the film industry in roles like writing and producing.

Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Lynette Howell Taylor said: “We are delighted to invite this remarkable group of film artists and professionals from around the world to join the Academy.

“Through their commitment to filmmaking, this year’s exceptionally talented class has made significant contributions to our global movie industry.”

Certain invitees, like Florence Miailhe, Chris Lavis, Oliver Laxe, Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, and Ronald Bronstein, have asterisks next to their names in the invitation list.

That, the Academy explained, means they “have been invited to join the Academy by multiple branches. These individuals must select one branch upon accepting membership”.

Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry

via Associated Press

During 2024′s Oscars ceremony, Janet Yang, then-president of the Academy, said: “Actors vote for actors; film editors vote for film editors; costume designers for costume designers; and so on… Best Picture nominations, however, are determined by all Academy members.”

The Academy’s site said that “Most categories are voted on by eligible voting members of the corresponding branch; however, certain categories may be open to members across all voting branches. Entries are voted on by a secret online ballot.”

In the finals voting process, meanwhile, “all eligible Academy members may participate… Members may vote in all 24 award categories.”

Who’s joining the Academy in 2026?

Actors

Mathieu Amalric – The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jon Bernthal – King Richard, Ford v Ferrari
Raúl Briones – La Cocina, A Cop Movie
Kenneth Choi – Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Wolf of Wall Street
Jemaine Clement – Avatar: The Way of Water, What We Do in the Shadows
Paddy Considine – The Death of Stalin, In America
David Dastmalchian – Oppenheimer, Dune
Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù – My Father’s Shadow, His House
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein, Saltburn
Veronica Ferres – The Comedian, Schtonk!
Stephen Fry – Love & Friendship, Gosford Park
Josh Gad – Marshall, Frozen
Julia Garner – Weapons, The Assistant
Mia Goth – Frankenstein, Pearl
Wood Harris – One Battle after Another, Remember the Titans
Suzy Eddie Izzard – Victoria & Abdul, Ocean’s Twelve
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value, Women in Oversized Men’s Shirts
Simu Liu – Barbie, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Scoot McNairy – A Complete Unknown, Argo
Tig Notaro – Am I OK?, Instant Family
Josh O’Connor – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Challengers
Jenna Ortega – Death of a Unicorn, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Daniella Pineda – The Accountant 2, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Lily Rabe – The Tender Bar, Miss Stevens
Anthony Ramos – A House of Dynamite, In the Heights
Miguel Sandoval – Tortilla Heaven, Clear and Present Danger
Bill Skarsgård – Dead Man’s Wire, Nosferatu
Jenny Slate – Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Obvious Child
Teyana Taylor – One Battle after Another, A Thousand and One

Animation

Chris Appelhans – KPop Demon Hunters, Wish Dragon
Rachel Bibb – Ralph Breaks the Internet, Moana
Ugo Bienvenu – Arco, A Kind of Testament
Sharon Bridgeman – Over the Moon, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Jude Brownbill – Elio, Soul
Tom Caulfield – Zootopia 2, Wish
Lillian Chan – Space Cadet, Cities
Mingjue Helen Chen – KPop Demon Hunters, Raya and the Last Dragon
Félix de Givry – Arco, A Kind of Testament
Camilla Deakin – Kensuke’s Kingdom, Ethel & Ernest
Mary Alice Drumm – Elio, Coco
Nathan Engelhardt – Forevergreen, Zootopia 2
Ruth Fielding – Kensuke’s Kingdom, Ethel & Ernest
Corrie Francis Parks – SKRFF, Foreign Exchange
Liane-Cho Han – Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, Calamity Jane
Jason Hand – Moana 2, Encanto
Maggie Kang – KPop Demon Hunters, The LEGO Ninjago Movie
Avneet Kaur – Moana 2, Raya and the Last Dragon
Liz Kearney – Magic Beach, Memoir of a Snail
John Kelly – Retirement Plan
Tom Knott – Ultraman: Rising, The Little Prince
Michael Lasker – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Chris Lavis – The Girl Who Cried Pearls, Madame Tutli-Putli
Henri Magalon – Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, Calamity Jane
Florence Miailhe* – Butterfly, The Crossing
Yoriko Mizushiri – Ordinary Life, Anxious Body
Adrian Molina – Elio, Inside Out 2
Lucija Mrzljak – Eeva, The Stork
Betsy Nofsinger – Kung Fu Panda 4, The Croods: A New Age
Matt Nolte – Elio, Brave
Andrzej Radka – Wolfwalkers, Ernest & Celestine
Michelle Lee Robinson – Encanto, Ralph Breaks the Internet
Ritchie Sacilioc – The Wild Robot, The Bad Guys
JP Sans – The Bad Guys 2, The Bad Guys
Sean Sexton – Kung Fu Panda 4, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Sajan Skaria – Luca, Toy Story 4
David Scott Smith – The Croods, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Jeremy Spears – Forevergreen, Zootopia 2
Maciek Szczerbowski* – The Girl Who Cried Pearls, Madame Tutli-Putli
Lynn Tomlinson – The Elephant’s Song, The Ballad of Holland Island House
Maïlys Vallade – Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, I Lost My Body
Benjamin Willis – The Bad Guys 2, Trolls Band Together
Michelle L.M. Wong – KPop Demon Hunters, Vivo

Artist Representatives

Gabriel Cohen
Victoria Cook
Houston Costa
Philip d’Amecourt
Pete Franciosa
Matt Galsor
Emily Gerson Saines
Jason Heyman
Zach Kaplan
Aleen Keshishian
Anthony Mestriner
Jimmy Miller
Daniella Milton
Brent Morley
Abram Nalibotsky
Paul Nelson
Jim Osborne
Peter Principato
Bradley Rainey
Danielle Shebby
Stephen Travierso
Alexandra Trustman
Jason Weinberg
Alan Wertheimer
Andrew Zack

Casting Directors

Nicole Abellera – Project Hail Mary, One of Them Days
Nicole Arbusto – His Three Daughters, Terri
Chelsea Ellis Bloch – Emily the Criminal, Honey Boy
Scot Boland – Flight, The Lovely Bones
Nicole Daniels – The Beguiled, Beginners
Gabriel Domingues – The Secret Agent, Power Alley
Barbara Giordani – Immaculate, The Two Popes
Tanja Grunwald – Another Round, The Hunt
Dan Hubbard – The Damned United, United 93
Cassandra Kulukundis – One Battle after Another, There Will Be Blood
Shayna Markowitz – Maestro, Joker
Roberto Matus – The Settlers, Endless Poetry
Rick Montgomery – Green Book, There’s Something about Mary
Yoko Narahashi – Touch, The Wolverine
Jessica Ronane – After the Hunt, Queer
Marisol Roncali – Emily the Criminal, Atomic Blonde
Dilip Shankar – Last Film Show, Monsoon Wedding
Robert Sterne – Paddington in Peru, The World’s End
Jennifer Venditti – Bugonia, Marty Supreme

Cinematographers

Evgenia Alexandrova – The Secret Agent, The Balconettes
Ehab Assal – Omar, Unexpected Peace
Michael Bauman – One Battle after Another, Licorice Pizza
Ante Cheng – Preparation for the Next Life, Jamojaya
Christopher Chomyn – Como caído del cielo, Wild about Harry
Wilssa Esser – Our Secret, Aurora
Markus Förderer – September 5, Red Notice
Brian Rigney Hubbard – Paint It Black, Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
Amin Jafari – It Was Just an Accident, Divine Comedy
Kim Woo-hyung – No Other Choice, Assassination
Olympia Mytilinaiou – Miss Violence, Maestra
Tudor Vladimir Panduru – The President’s Cake, Metronom
Anna Patarakina – Dreamers, The Lesson
Laurie Rose – Catherine Called Birdy, Rebecca
Joe Saade – Joyland, A Sad and Beautiful World
Juan Sarmiento G. – The Voice of Hind Rajab, Islands
Malik Hassan Sayeed – After the Hunt, He Got Game
Glynn Speeckaert – Marguerite, Life for Real
Suren Tadevosyan – Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev, The Reverse Side of the Medal
Adolpho Veloso – Train Dreams, Jockey
Nicole Whitaker – Dust Bunny, Chasing the Blues
Paul Yee – Joy Ride, Colewell

Costume Designers

Nadia Acimi – Sirāt, Fire Will Come
Rita Azevedo – The Secret Agent, Bacurau
Miyako Bellizzi – Marty Supreme, Uncut Gems
Jacqueline Bouchard – Thérèse, I’ve Loved You So Long
Vera Chow – Rosemead, Boogie
Retno Ratih Damayanti – Samsara, Before, Now & Then
Malena de la Riva – I’m No Longer Here, Museo
Stefano De Nardis – Book Club: The Next Chapter, L’imbroglio nel lenzuolo
Michaela Horáčková Hořejší – Franz, Princ Mamánek
Siân Jenkins – Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, The Lighthouse
Sabrina Krämer – Sound of Falling, Sweet Disaster
Eka Lakhani – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani, Chekka Chivantha Vaanam
Katarzyna Lewińska – EO, In Darkness
Stewart Meachem – The Mistress of Spices, Billy Elliot
Olga Mill – Eileen, Hereditary
Karen Muller Serreau – Stillwater, At Eternity’s Gate
Kumiko Ogawa – Kokuho, Kill Bill – Vol. 1
Giulia Piersanti – Suspiria, Call Me by Your Name
Peggy Schnitzer – Honey Don’t!, Elvis & Nixon
Emily Seresin – Carmen, I Am Woman
Nami Shinozuka – Eiga Biri Gyaru, Herutā Sukerutā
Anna Vilppunen – Sisu, Tom of Finland
PC Williams – The Roses, Polite Society
Karen Yip – Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, Anita
Ellen Ystehede – Sentimental Value, The Worst Person in the World

Directors

Eugene Ashe – Sylvie’s Love, Homecoming
Marcelo Caetano – Baby, Body Electric
Zach Cregger – Weapons, Barbarian
Gyula Gazdag – Hungarian Chronicles I-II, A Hungarian Fairy Tale
Daniel Goldhaber – Faces of Death, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Guan Hu – Black Dog, The Eight Hundred
Tom Harper – Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, The Aeronauts
Raven Jackson – All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Kim Jee-woon – Cobweb, I Saw the Devil
Oliver Laxe* – Sirāt, Fire Will Come
Rashid Masharawi – Passing Dreams, Laila’s Birthday
James Ponsoldt – The End of the Tour, The Spectacular Now
Haider Rashid – Europa, It’s About to Rain
Nicole Riegel – Dandelion, Holler
Alonso Ruizpalacios – La Cocina, A Cop Movie
Benny Safdie* – The Smashing Machine, Uncut Gems
Josh Safdie* – Marty Supreme, Uncut Gems
Julia Solomonoff – Nobody’s Watching, The Last Summer of La Boyita
Anocha Suwichakornpong – Come Here, By the Time It Gets Dark
Tusi Tamasese – One Thousand Ropes, The Orator
Fernanda Valadez – Sujo, Identifying Features

Documentary

Juan Arredondo – Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud, The Prosecutors
David Borenstein – Mr. Nobody against Putin, Can’t Feel Nothing
Isabel Castro – Selena y Los Dinos, Mija
Kahane Corn Cooperman – The Antidote, Joe’s Violin
Jessica Edwards – Eno, Mavis!
Mohammadreza Eyni – Cutting through Rocks, Convergence: Courage in a Crisis
Helle Faber – Mr. Nobody against Putin, Mummy’s Boys
Amber Fares – Coexistence, My Ass!, The Devil Is Busy
Maxyne Franklin – The Edge of Democracy, Virunga
Jeff Gilbert – Holding Liat, Boys State
Lizzie Gillett – Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, The Territory
Ingvil Giske – The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, The Painter and the Thief
Anna Godas – Every Little Thing, McEnroe
Christalyn Hampton – The Devil Is Busy, Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story
Oli Harbottle – Every Little Thing, McEnroe
Andrew Jarecki – The Alabama Solution, Capturing the Friedmans
Conall Jones* – All the Empty Rooms, Stranger at the Gate
Shalini Kantayya – TikTok, Boom., Coded Bias
Alžběta Karásková – Mr. Nobody against Putin, Blix Not Bombs
Charlotte Kaufman – The Alabama Solution, Occupy Cannes!
Sara Khaki – Cutting through Rocks, Convergence: Courage in a Crisis
Paweł Łoziński – The Balcony Movie, Father and Son
Michelle Mizner – 2000 Meters to Andriivka, 20 Days in Mariupol
Jenni Morello – The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, Victim/Suspect
Peter Murimi – The Battle for Laikipia, I Am Samuel
Iris Ng – There Are No Words, One of Ours
Camilla Nielsson – President, Democrats
David Osit – Predators, Mayor
Joseph Patel – SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Alisa Payne – The Perfect Neighbor, Stamped from the Beginning
Craig Renaud* – Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud, Shelter
Marcia Rock – I Remember, Duet
Afsaneh Salari – Writing Hawa, The Silhouettes
Alicia Sams – Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
Radovan Síbrt – Mr. Nobody against Putin, Blix Not Bombs
Sky Sitney – Life and Debt
Robert Stengård – The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, The Painter and the Thief
Audrius Stonys – Bridges of Time, Woman and the Glacier
Rea Tajiri – Wisdom Gone Wild, Lordville
Catalina Villar – Ana Rosa, The New Medellín
Jeremy Workman – Secret Mall Apartment, Lily Topples the World
Dorottya Zurbó – Agent of Happiness, The Next Guardian

Executives

Angel An
Carolyn Bernstein
Farhana Bhula
Josh D’Amaro
Daniela Elstner
John Friedberg
Michael Heimler
Fionnuala Jamison
Liz Jenkins
Janine Jones-Clark
Nathanaël Karmitz
Natalie Rae Lehmann
Christina Leotis
Matt Levin
Dennis Lim
Theresa Steele Page
Mike Polydoros
Rayne Roberts
Andrea Scrosati
Shary Shirazi
Daniel Steinman
Lorna Tee
Jason Wald
Kevin Michael Wilson
Alex Almogabar Zahn
Zhang Xin

Film Editors

Martin Bernfeld – Little Wing, Saban’s Power Rangers
Deepa Bhatia – Skater Girl, Taare Zameen Par
Daysha M. Broadway – Ricky, Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Ronald Bronstein* – Marty Supreme, Uncut Gems
Nena Hsu Erb – Joy Ride, Dealin’ with Idiots
Amir Etminan – It Was Just an Accident, No Bears
Matheus Farias – The Secret Agent, Pictures of Ghosts
Cristóbal Fernández – Sirāt, Mimosas
Paola Freddi – Another End, Monica
Ahmed Hafez – El Sett, Clash
Jean-Christophe Hym – Four Daughters, Stranger by the Lake
Andy Jurgensen – One Battle after Another, Licorice Pizza
Dimitri Komm – The Master and Margarita, T-34
Joseph Krings – Captain Fantastic, Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
Parker Laramie – Train Dreams, Sing Sing
Viridiana Lieberman – The Perfect Neighbor, Born to Play
Melody London – Novocaine, Down by Law
Rebekka Lønqvist – Mr. Nobody against Putin, Mr. Graversen
Bret Marnell – Ultraman: Rising, Smurfs: The Lost Village
Nicolaj Monberg – Mr. Nobody against Putin, Riders of Justice
Olivia Neergaard-Holm – The Chronology of Water, The Apprentice
A. Sreekar Prasad – RRR, Dil Chahta Hai
Jane Rizzo – The Hunt, Leave No Trace
Laurent Rouan – Case 137, The Night of the 12th
Josh Safdie* – Marty Supreme, Daddy Longlegs
Evan Schiff – Frankenstein, Nobody
Eduardo Serrano – The Secret Agent, Bacurau
Michael P. Shawver – Sinners, Black Panther
Rosario Suárez – Kill the Jockey, The Last Summer of La Boyita

Makeup Artists and Hairstylists

Marisa Amenta – The Secret Agent, I’m Still Here
Jana Carboni – Gladiator II, Napoleon
Orla Carroll – The Banshees of Inisherin, Cinderella
Cliona Furey – Frankenstein, Nightmare Alley
Stephen Kelley – Bill & Ted Face the Music, John Wick
Jordan Samuel – Frankenstein, Crimson Peak
Anne Cathrine Sauerberg – The Ugly Stepsister, The Girl with the Needle
Shunika Terry – Sinners, The Matrix Resurrections
Kyoko Toyokawa – Kokuho, The Great Passage
Chiara Tripodi – Send Help, The Naked Gun

Marketing and Public Relations

Emily Lu Aldrich
Susie Arons
Thomas Beatty
Sharon Black
Ben Carlson
Rocío Chicharro Gutiérrez
Tom Cunha
Harris Dew
David Gray Edwards
Jonathan David Epstein
Andrew Ferguson
Danielle Freiberg
Madelyn Hammond
Josh Haroutunian
Teri Kane
Amanda Levin
Joey Monteiro
Megan Moss
Claire-Marie Murphy
Ben Proctor
Rachel Rosen
Tolley Shields
Hugh Kashnor Spearing
Kara Spector
Telly Wong

Music

Sara Bareilles – Come See Me in the Good Light, Battle of the Sexes

Vishal Bhardwaj – Crazxy, Gustaakh Ishq

Suad Bushnaq – Yunan, Hobal

Arturo Cardelús – Dragonkeeper, Black Beach

Angela Rose Claverie – Silent Night, The Nun 2

EJAE – KPop Demon Hunters

Karim Sebastian Elias – Cutting through Rocks, Of Fathers and Sons

James Fauntleroy – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Dolemite Is My Name

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – Seeds, Candyman

Haim Mazar – Self-Help, Desperation Road

Denise Okimoto – Dead Man’s Wire, First They Killed My Father

Felipe Pacheco – Sinners, Oppenheimer

Laetitia Pansanel-Garric – Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake, Hola Frida

Nicolas Rabæus – Hello Betty, Thunder

Hania Rani – Sentimental Value, The Summer Book

Ryan Romeyn Rubin – F1, Dune

Batu Sener – Atatürk 1881-1919, Better Man

Glenn Evan Slater – Spellbound, Tangled

Mark Sonnenblick – KPop Demon Hunters, Spirited

Daniel Waldman – Knives Out, Joker

DeVaughn Watts – The Wild Robot, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Oren Yaacoby – KPop Demon Hunters, Spirited

Ben Zales – Freakier Friday, Ballerina

Producers

Karim Aïtouna – Poisonous Roses, Where the Wind Comes From
Andrea Berentsen Ottmar – Sentimental Value, The Worst Person in the World
Yulia Evina Bhara – Autobiography, Tiger Stripes
Olha Bregman – Timestamp, Stop-Zemlia
Eli Bush – Marty Supreme, Lady Bird
Mark Ceryak – Sorry, Baby, Aftersun
Lamia Chraïbi – Mica, The End
Robert Connolly – Paper Planes, Emily
Sylvain Corbeil – Falcon Lake, It’s Only the End of the World
Andrew D. Corkin – Rosemead, The Desperate Hour
Ben Cosgrove – The Good German, Rumor Has It…
Rodolfo Cova – The Family, Fortitude
Liz Destro – Clerks III, The Little Hours
Marta Donzelli – The Last One for the Road, Sworn Virgin
Maria Ekerhovd – Sentimental Value, The Ugly Stepsister
Tania El Khoury – Backstage, The River
Negar Eskandarfar – Careless Crime, A Separation
Nicolas Gonda – Hamnet, The Tree of Life
Adrián Guerra – The Penguin Lessons, Buried
Marianela Illas – The Family, El Amparo
Oleg Kokhan – Animals in War, Eternal Homecoming
Nataliya Libet – Timestamp, Stop-Zemlia
Kevin Loader – My Cousin Rachel, The Personal History of David Copperfield
Liza Marshall – Hamnet, The End We Start From
Matthew Miller – Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, Blackberry
Mason Novick – Juno, Lisa Frankenstein
Chad Oman – F1, Top Gun: Maverick
Leontine Petit – Sweet Dreams, Mr. K
Igor Savychenko – When the Trees Fall, Brothers. The Final Confession
Shan Zuolong – Resurrection, Long Day’s Journey into Night
Alexandru Teodorescu – Dracula, Kontinental ’25
Volodymyr Yatsenko – U Are the Universe, Reflection

Production and Technology

Alicia Accardo
Jeff Barnes
Derek Bradley
Gregory Brentin
Marguerite Derricks
David Eubank
Maxine Gervais
Jillian Giacomini
Geoffrey Haley
Josh Haynie
Jim Helman
Farah Khan
Theodore Kim
Lori Korngiebel
Mark Meyer
John Moyer
Domonkos Párdányi
Alexandra Patsavas
Karyn Ruth Rachtman
Rajesh Ramachandran
Christopher Russell
Christopher Paul Scott
Steven S. Shapiro
Jamal Sims
Andrea Wertheim

Production Design

Serge Archambault – Dune: Part Two, Beau Is Afraid
Mohamed Attia – Al Aref, Al Feel Al Azraq
Andrew Bennett – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, No Time to Die
Anthony Carlino – One Battle after Another, Babylon
Monique Champagne – Sinners, Nickel Boys
Gina Louise Sara Cromwell – Downton Abbey, Mary Queen of Scots
Tamara Deverell – Frankenstein, Nightmare Alley
Kelsi Ephraim – Everything Everywhere All at Once, Palm Springs
Zachary Fannin – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Avatar: The Way of Water
Thales Junqueira – The Secret Agent, Baby
Jason Kisvarday – Everything Everywhere All at Once, Swiss Army Man
Carlos Lagunas – Cabrini, Sound of Freedom
Elizabeth Linn – West Side Story, Joker
Florencia Martin – One Battle after Another, Babylon
Caty Maxey – Civil War, Jurassic World
Brad Ricker – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Dune
Clint Schultz – Top Gun: Maverick, Star Trek
Lisa Scoppa – Caught Stealing, The Whale
Hugues Tissandier – Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Simon Weisse – Asteroid City, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jane Wuu – Star Trek, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Short Films

Scott Aharoni – Money Talks, Leylak
David Atrakchi – Five to One, Rise of a Star
Arvin Belarmino – Agapito, Hinakdal
Miguel Angel Caballero – The Ballad of Tita and the Machines, Acuitzeramo
Bruno Carnide – Memories of an Empty House, The Girl Who Walked on Snow
Chiang Wei Liang – Kaohsiung City, Yancheng District, Fubei Rd., No.31, Luzon
Akinola Davies – Lizard, Contactless
Dani Feixas Roca – Tito, Paris 70
Andrew Freedman – Retirement Plan, Undressing My Mother
Kryzz Gautier – Chimera, Keep Delete
Conall Jones* – All the Empty Rooms, Stranger at the Gate
Abby Lynn Kang Davis – The Queen of Basketball, A Concerto Is a Conversation
Mickey Lai – WAShhh, The Cloud Is Still There
Tamika Lamison – Superman Doesn’t Steal, The Magic Bracelet
Chris Lavis* – The Girl Who Cried Pearls, Madame Tutli-Putli
Andrew Stephen Lee – At Little Wheelie Three Days Ago, Manila Is Full of Men Named Boy
Noëlle Lévénez – The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, Alarms
Vea Mafile’o – I Am Not Your Dusky Maiden, Lea Tupu’ Anga (Mother Tongue)
Florence Miailhe* – Butterfly, Urban Tale
Natalie Musteata – Two People Exchanging Saliva, The Appointment
Sharon S. Park – The Unreachable Star, Soak
Jack Piatt – The Singers, Lolo & The Barbershop
Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir – A South Facing Window, Snow in September
Christopher Radcliff – We Were the Scenery, Jonathan’s Chest
Craig Renaud* – Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud, Between Borders: American Migrant Crisis
Alexandre Singh – Two People Exchanging Saliva, The Appointment
Maciek Szczerbowski* – The Girl Who Cried Pearls, Madame Tutli-Putli
Peter Tscherkassky – Train Again, The Exquisite Corpus
Tom Van Avermaet – Hearts of Stone, Death of a Shadow
Loren Waters – Tiger, Udeyonv (What They’ve Been Taught)

Sound

Eric Beam – The Novice, Justice League
Laia Casanovas – Sirāt, Parallel Mothers
Greg Chapman – Frankenstein, Nightmare Alley
Ryan Delavan Cole – Deadpool & Wolverine, Miss Juneteenth
Ron Eng – The Nun, Mulholland Drive
Victoria Franzan – Belén, Heroic Losers
Trevor Gates – Twinless, Doctor Sleep
Abdolreza Heidari – It Was Just an Accident, Terrestrial Verses
Warren Keith Hendriks – Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Better Man
Rawad Hobeika – Palestine 36, Goodbye Julia
Kim Eun-jung – Concrete Utopia, Decision to Leave
Patrushkha Mierzwa – Killers of the Flower Moon, Ad Astra
Michael Miller – Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, Nosferatu
Rodrigo Ortiz – Primate, Patriots Day
Jessie Pariseau – Superman, Wicked
Yasmina Praderas – Sirāt, A Perfect Enemy
Nina Rice – The Sheep Detectives, Barbie
Jacob Riehle – Project Hail Mary, The Batman
Nathan Robitaille – Frankenstein, The Shape of Water
Steve Schatz – Project Hail Mary, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Tetsuo Segawa – Matinee, Akira
Hassan Shabankareh – The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Finding Farideh
Bernardo Uzeda – My Name Is Daniel, Good Manners
Tony Villaflor – One Battle after Another, Vice
Amanda Villavieja – Sirāt, Mimosas
Chris Welcker – Sinners, Bill & Ted Face the Music
Jack Whittaker – Smurfs, Seberg
Alexa Zimmerman – Black Phone 2, Little Women
Brad Zoern – Frankenstein, The Shape of Water

Visual Effects

Stephen Aplin – Jurassic World Rebirth, Aladdin
Christopher Batty – Transformers One, Aquaman
Daniel Bethell – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Flash
Jelmer Boskma – Eternals, Ant-Man and the Wasp
Russell Bowen – The Lost Bus, Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Gavin Boyle – Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force, Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms
Mike Brazelton – Madame Web, Bullet Train
Stuart Bullen – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
TJ Burke – Project Hail Mary, Ballerina
Charmaine Chan – Jurassic World Rebirth, The Creator
Nicolas Chevallier – F1, The Fall Guy
Amy Beth Christenson – Transformers One, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Sonia M. Contreras – Tron: Ares, The Irishman
Keith Dawson – F1, Ready Player One
Donnie Dean – Sinners, Nickel Boys
Tara DeMarco – The Marvels, The Bronze
Raul Essig – Wicked: For Good, Wicked
Bill Georgiou – Twisters, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Becky Graham – Death on the Nile, Bhoot: Part One – The Haunted Ship
Pablo Grillo – Paddington in Peru, The Little Mermaid
Robert Harrington – F1, Thunderbolts*
Nicole Herr – The Lion King, The Jungle Book
Christian Kaestner – Gladiator II, Alien: Covenant
Shawn Kelly – Venom: The Last Dance, Avengers: Infinity War
Andy Kind – How to Train Your Dragon, The Little Mermaid
Brandon K. McLaughlin – The Lost Bus, Killers of the Flower Moon
Jay Mehta – Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms, Maharshi
Glenn Joseph Melenhorst – How to Train Your Dragon, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
Espen Nordahl – The Electric State, Sinners
Thomas Proctor – Mortal Kombat II, Justice League
Michael Ralla – Sinners, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Joshua Keir Simmonds – The Sheep Detectives, Together
Fausto Tejeda – Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, The Ambush
Marjolaine Tremblay – The Shack, Game Night
Guido Wolter – Sinners, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Clement Yip – Atlas, Sonic the Hedgehog 3
David Zaretti – The Lost Bus, The Running Man

Writers

Jesse Andrews – Elio, Luca
Ronald Bronstein* – Marty Supreme, Uncut Gems
Cheo Hodari Coker – Creed II, Notorious
Gary Dauberman – It Chapter Two, It
Santiago Fillol – Sirāt, Fire Will Come
Dan Fogelman – Cars 2, Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Holly Gent – Nouvelle Vague, Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Tearepa Kahi – Muru, Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Alireza Khatami – The Things You Kill, Terrestrial Verses
Oliver Laxe* – Sirāt, Fire Will Come
Lee Kyoung-mi – No Other Choice, The Truth Beneath
Satoko Okudera – Kokuho, Rebirth
Vince Palmo – Nouvelle Vague, Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Shadmehr Rastin – It Was Just an Accident, As Simple as That
Klaudia Reynicke – Reinas, Love Me Tender
Benny Safdie* – The Smashing Machine, Uncut Gems
Josh Safdie* – Marty Supreme, Uncut Gems
Nader Saïvar – It Was Just an Accident, The Witness
Tarik Saleh – Eagles of the Republic, Cairo Conspiracy
Joe Shrapnel – The Woman in Cabin 10, Rebecca
Will Tracy – Bugonia, The Menu
Aslihan Unaldi – Afloat, Skate Kitchen
Anna Waterhouse – The Woman in Cabin 10, Rebecca
Christopher Makoto Yogi – I Was a Simple Man, August at Akiko’s
Nathan Zellner – Damsel, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Sameh Zoabi – Tel Aviv on Fire, The Idol

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It’s Your Last Chance To Catch 8 Netflix Titles Leaving This June

Who doesn’t love a good Netflix binge of a weekend – even one as sunny as this one?

Whether it’s the just-dropped Harlan Coben drama critics say is “maddeningly watchable” or one of the suggestions from our list of the streamer’s brand-new June titles, there’s plenty of options to work through.

But if you’re finding it hard to choose, why not pick the movies and shows leaving the subscription service soon? After all, you won’t have a chance to do so again any time soon.

Here’s what’s on its way out in June 2026 from today on in the UK, per The Independent:

Leaving Saturday, 20 June

1) North Shore

Netflix's North Shore
Netflix’s North Shore

Netflix / ITV

Starring Game of Thrones star John Bradley alongside Downtown Abbey’s Joanne Froggatt, the six-episode show’s synopsis reads: “When a UK minister’s daughter dies mysteriously in Sydney, a London detective must team up with his Australian counterpart to unravel the mystery.”

2) The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent

Netflix / BBC

Toby Jones (Detectorists, The Hack), Vicky McClure (Line of Duty), and Stephen Graham (Adolescence, Boiling Point) lead this four-episode gem, which is set in Victorian London. “A shopkeeper who doubles as a spy for the Russian Embassy comes under pressure to commit an act of politically-motivated terrorism,” Netflix summarises the show.

3) Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron

Dreamworks / Netflix

Yes, that is *the* DreamWorks horse flick from your childhood we’re talking about. Its stellar cast includes Good Will Hunting’s Matt Damon and Succession’s James Cromwell.

Leaving Sunday, June 21

4) Love Is a Story

Love Is A Story
Love Is A Story

Netflix / Zazu Film

This Romanian rom-com focuses on “two young artists, a violin player and an actress, [who] fight to achieve their dreams and keep their relationship together during Christmastime.” It stars Raluca Aprodu, Dragoș Bucur, and Ducu Darie.

5) #Selfie

#Selfie
#Selfie

Netflix / Zazu Film

The Romanian coming-of age flick follows a group of teenage girls (Flavia Hojda, Crina Semciuc, Olimpia Melinte, and more) who flee pre-exam stress by going on a seaside adventure.

6) #Selfie 69

#Selfie69
#Selfie69

Netflix / Zazu Film

Another of the Romanian movie series is set to leave on the same day. This comedy is a sequel to #Seflie, with some familiar names in the cast list. It focuses on “a trio of party-loving friends [who] make a bet: who can get married in three days” after a breakup?

7) The Secret

The Secret
The Secret

ITV / Netflix

Based on a true story, this drama has a pretty juicy description: “A dentist and a Sunday school teacher begin a torrid extramarital affair that leads them to make a murderous pact.” Stars include James Nesbitt (Cold Feet), Genevieve O’Reilly (Andor), and Laura Pyper (Emma).

8) Who Are You: School 2015

Who Are You
Who Are You

KBS2 / Netflix

This 16-episode Korean school drama involves “a bullied high school orphan [who] finds herself in the place of an identical-looking girl who’s gone missing” after losing her memory. Cast members include Yook Sung-jae (The Golden Spoon) and Nam Joo-hyuk (The Great Battle).

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Richard Gadd Calls Half Man Scene The Best Thing He’s Ever Written

This article contains spoilers for Half Man.

It might have seemed like an impossible feat to top the award-winning Baby Reindeer, but Richard Gadd believes he’s done it with Half Man.

Speaking to the Radio Times in the lead-up to the release of his latest TV offering earlier this year, Richard was asked what he thought was the best scene he’d ever written.

Initially, he admitted that due to his “self flagellating” personality, his instinct is to praise the “scenes that had to be cut”.

“I sometimes go to them because I think I’ve convinced myself that they were sort of ‘the one’,” he claimed.

But, out of everything that did make the final cut, he settled on one scene in particular as his favourite.

“Potentially the best one I’ve ever written, although it’s so hard to say that, because it’s all kind of speculative and contextual, is maybe the final scene between the two of them when they’re talking face to face,” he explained.

In Half Man, Richard plays the violent yet loyal Ruben, a man who has a toxic relationship with his “brother”, the meek and mild-mannered Niall, played by Jamie Bell.

In a brutal final scene between the two pseudo-brothers, Niall visits Ruben in jail, and finally comes out to him.

Niall visiting Ruben in prison in the sixth episode of Half Man
Niall visiting Ruben in prison in the sixth episode of Half Man

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Ruben is surprisingly accepting of the revelation, admitting he had been anticipating the conversation.

“You’ve wasted your whole life dancing to other people’s tunes, but you’ve never had the rhythm,” Richard’s character says.

The moment is notable because it finally lets Niall see Ruben for who he really is, beneath his anger, and helps Niall realise that much of the homophobia in his life had been internal, and not due to his surroundings.

Last month, Richard broke the scene down to Time magazine, claiming: “What Ruben essentially says to him there is, ‘you’ve always been an individual, and you should have been proud of that. You’ve wasted your whole life trying to be a sheep, trying to blend in with the nine-to-fivers, the straight guys, and the heterosexual couples, but you’ve never had the rhythm. You’ve always been separate from that’.”

During that emotional final showdown between the two men, Ruben also discloses that he had been sexually abused as a child by his father, telling Niall that “in a lot of ways, it’s the closest I’ve ever been with someone”.

Richard told Time: “That line speaks to the way he felt he was too innocent to know any better, and ever since that moment, he’s built this kind of prison of defensiveness around himself.

“There was a freedom taken from him in that moment, and his life changed.”

He added: “Until he breaks down with Niall, he’d never allowed himself to feel vulnerable. His best form of defence is always attack. He’s built a life around trying to make up for this thing that happened to him, which he sees, wrongly, as a dent to his character.”

Elsewhere in his Radio Times interview, Richard also revealed he came up with the idea for Half Man before making Baby Reindeer, admitting he couldn’t “shake” off the concept.

“It stayed with me,” he recalled. “And it stayed with me all the way through Baby Reindeer and I would always be, ‘Oh, please, can it still be there the other side?’ Because I knew the BBC was interested, and I really wanted to do it with the Beeb. And I just would always hope and pray it was still there. And, luckily, it was.”

Half Man is available to watch on BBC iPlayer now.

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Clarkson’s Farm Co-Star Shares Update On Jeremy Clarkson’s Health

The former Top Gear host said: “the prostate, 10% of it’s dead… the 10% where the cancer is”. He said that the cancer had been caught early.

The episodes also revealed Jeremy sitting on a hospital bed, stating some of the treatment had gone “awry”. In the footage, he added, “I’m going to be here for a little while. I don’t know what’s going to happen.

“What I wanted to say was if this is all successful, I’ll see you in season six, and if it isn’t, I won’t… Take care, everyone.”

Since then, Clarkson’s Farm co-star Kaleb Cooper has given fans an update.

Speaking to the Daily Mail in an exclusive, he said: “The spirits are high, which is good”.

He added, “If anything like this happens to any of your friends and you just said to my best mate, you’ve gotta be supported through that whole journey.

“And that’s where I’ve been, I’ve been right by his side and his spirits are really good, so thank you… He’s strong-minded, he’s got a strong mind on him, which is good.”

The 66-year-old has received a lot of well wishes, including from Piers Morgan, with whom he has shared a tumultuous relationship.

In an X post, Piers said: “I was surprised when Jeremy Clarkson texted me on Boxing Day to say how much he liked my… ad urging men to get tested for prostate cancer. Now I understand. I wish my old sparring partner all the best with his treatment. Guys, have a PSA [Prostate-Specific Antigen] test, it may save your life.”

In the past, Clarkson told The Times, that he regularly gets checked for the disease. He said he’d seen “too many friends go down with prostate cancer”, adding, “all it takes is a moment or two” to see how you’re doing.

Kaleb had a similar message in the Daily Mail interview.

“Catching anything early is quite important,” he said.

“That’s the main thing, but you’ve gotta keep checking. People can sit there and say I’m busy, busy, busy,” the farmer and author continued.

“But actually sometimes you’ve gotta go, I’m gonna just have to check and see if I’m okay.”

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Peter Capaldi Just Shared Why He Really Left Doctor Who

Peter Capaldi, who was the 12th Doctor on BBC hit Doctor Who, has spoken out about his exit from the show.

The Thick Of It Star left the franchise in 2017. In a recent appearance on YouTube series 100 Questions with John Simmons, he claimed that he decided to leave the role because “I just wasn’t sure that it was going to go in the direction that I… everybody was leaving that I’d worked with.”

He added, “Everybody was leaving. Jenna [presumably Jenna Louise-Coleman, who played the Doctor’s companion Clara Oswald] had gone, and Steven [probably former head writer Steven Moffat, who also left in 2017] was going, and Brian [likely Brian Minchin], the producer, was going, and those are the people that make it work for you.

“We’d had some talks about the direction. I wasn’t sure that that was where I wanted to go with the show. And I also thought, I’m not sure I could come up with anything new.”

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Peter continued to say that while his regeneration, which saw the actor replaced by Jodie Whittaker, was “very sad”, he thinks that the biological process the Doctor uses to survive serious damage has become “diminished”.

Calling the concept “a very, very powerful death motif,” he said, “To be perfectly honest, I think there are too many regenerations.

“I love all the Doctors, but I’ve lost count now of how many of them there are, so the weight of this kind of regeneration is diminished. Whereas when I grew up as a kid, the first time it happened it was: ‘What just happened there?’ It was mysterious and strange. It holds the mystery of the show, the regeneration.”

It’s not the first time he’s expressed his feelings about the show, of which he was a super-fan in his youth.

On the Half Of The Picture podcast this year, he claimed: “The show became very, very big. And it was never like that when I loved it. So it became a different thing.

“I think the show is a little bit of a victim of its success. You know, the show that I loved was a tiny thing, a little small thing that survived. It just survived, but nobody knew that it was warming its way into the culture in such a deep way. And I think that’s what I have an affinity with.”

In the ’70s, the Doctor Who fan club received so much correspondence from a young Capaldi that then-president of the group, Keith Miller, said he felt “haunted” by the Doctor-to-be.

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