![]() ![]() The 29 percent price hike may be felt most by older members, several longtime members of varying ages suggested. The Academy counters that dues need to be raised in order to provide programming and services to a larger organization that now has members in more than 60 countries. And besides, some said, the surge in new members is already resulting in overflow crowds at high-profile screenings at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills - some members were recently turned away from both A Star Is Born and First Man. Some members tell THR that the Academy shouldn’t need to raise dues at all in light of the fact that the organization invited an unprecedented 2,385 people to join its membership over the last three years as part of a diversity push, which means a lot more money is already coming in the door than did just a few years ago. Membership dues only account for a relatively small portion of the Academy’s overall revenue - just $2.3 million, or 1.5 percent, of 2017’s revenues of $147.6 million $122.9 million, or more than 83 percent of the Academy’s 2017 income, came from Oscars-related activities, primarily the Academy’s deal with ABC through which the alphabet network secures the ceremony’s television broadcasting rights. Plus, for the amount of money that you pay for Academy membership, there are actually a lot of perks - you can bring guests, you get screeners, you get to go to special screenings of old films, there are special events. ![]() BAFTA is around $200 a year, and only certain BAFTA members get screeners you basically just get a chance to go to screenings, and they can’t accommodate nearly as many members at them as the Academy can. “They don’t tell you what the dues are until you’re accepted,” he said, “but to be honest, $450 a year is not very different from what I expected them to be. And very few members get in because the studios buy up all the tables for something like $60,000 a table.”Īnother new member of the public relations branch feels differently. “And then, if you somehow win the lottery to get into the Governors Awards, that’s another $500 a ticket - that’s piggish. “You’re paying $450 to get to go to screenings and get screeners,” she said. They should just be transparent.” The member, who said she was surprised to be hit up for a contribution to the museum on the way out of a recent Academy gathering for new members, feels that the opportunities offered to members do not merit such high dues. I think they’re doing it to get more money for their museum. “It’s not about the money,” says a disgruntled new member of the public relations branch. Janet Yang Re-Elected Film Academy's President, Other Officer Positions Filled by Board
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