The academy branches, which represent various crafts — including writers, actors and costume designers — are expected to complete reviews of member activity later this summer.
Typically in the spring, each of the 17 academy branches begins considering new members, with the board approving and inviting them in June.
Also, even that postponement was not permanent: the categories affected would rotate, with a different four (or more) selected every year in consultation with the various academy branches.
"Caucasians currently make up 90% or more of every academy branch except actors, whose roster is 88% white.
The superintendent of the US air force academy branched out somewhat by handing Harry a falconry glove – along with a football kitbag, three T-shirts, two pairs of shorts and an American football shirt.
Each entry is nominated by members of the relevant Academy branch (so director nominations are put forward by the directors, actors are nominated by Screen Actors Guild members) by secret ballot.
According to the LA Times, the academy's 15 branches are almost exclusively White and male with Whites currently making up 90percentt or more of every academy branch except actors, which is 88percentt White.
The academy branch committees that vote on new members approached their task slightly differently this year in the wake of the #OscarsSoWhite outcry.
The board, which does not release the agenda for its meetings, likely also will discuss how it expects the academy's branches to tackle A2020, its plan to double the number of women and minority members by 2020.
In each of the academy's branches, extra effort has been made over the past several years to identify and recruit potential new members from abroad, including in some cases highly respected actors, writers, directors and others who had been previously overlooked.
