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(AP Photo) (Uncredited)Recent Oscar winners Ariana DeBose, Troy Kotsur and Billie Eilish are among the 397 individuals who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. If the invitees accept, which most do, they will have voting privileges at the 95th Academy Awards. In the music branch, Eilish’s brother Finneas O’Connell was also invited, alongside Dan Romer (“Luca”) and Nathan Johnson (“Knives Out”). And writing branch invitees include Jeremy O. Harris (“Zola”), Adele Lim (“Crazy Rich Asians”), Alex Ross Perry (“Listen Up Philip”), Jon Spaihts (“Dune”) and Craig Mazin (“The Hangover Part II”). The 2022 class of invitees, for instance, includes 71 Oscar nominees and 15 winners.

Recent Oscar winners Ariana DeBose, Troy Kotsur and Billie Eilish are among the 397 individuals who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Awards Season 2022 Caitriona Balfe, from left, Jamie Dornan, Judi Dench, Jude Hill and Lewis McAskie appear in a scene from "Belfast." (Rob Youngson/Focus Features via AP) (Rob Youngson)NEW YORK — (AP) — The reading of this year’s Oscar nominees has begun. In pulling from films released in myriad ways, these Oscar nominations are sure to reflect a tumultuous pandemic year for Hollywood that began with many theaters shuttered and ended with Sony Pictures' “Spider-Man: No Way Home” smashing box-office records. As COVID-19 cases surged in the last two months due to the omicron variant, much of Oscar season also turned virtual. ___Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP___For more on this year’s Oscars nominations, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/academy-awardsCopyright 2022 The Associated Press.

Nominations to the 94th Academy Awards will be announced Tuesday beginning at 8:18 a.m. EST. Campion's director of photography, Ari Wegner, is also poised to be just the second woman ever nominated for best cinematography. The only previous deaf actor nominated in Oscar history is Marlee Martlin, Kotsur's “CODA” co-star. Films including “Dune" (despite the objections of its director), Pixar's “Luca" and “King Richard” were among those that went straight to homes. For better or worse, the Academy Awards will also be without its usual lead-in.

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Film - Santa Barbara Film Festival Honorees This combination of photos shows honorees for the Virtuosos Award by the the 37th Santa Barbara International Film Festival, top row from left, Caitriona Balfe in "Belfast," Ariana Debose in "West Side Story," Jamie Dornan in "Belfast," Alana Haim in "Licorice Pizza," bottom row from left, Emilia Jones in "CODA", Troy Kotsur in "CODA," Simon Rex in "Red Rocket," and Saniyya Sidney in "King Richard." (Focus Features/20th Century Studios/Focus Features/MGM/Apple TV+, Apple TV+, A24/Warner Bros. via AP) (Uncredited)“West Side Story’s” Ariana DeBose, “Licorice Pizza’s” Alana Haim and “Belfast’s” Caitriona Balfe are among the actors who will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Virtuosos Award this year. Festival organizers plan to give out the honors at an in-person event in the coastal California town on March 5. The long-running film festival, now in its 37th year, regularly attracts over 100,000 attendees to the idyllic town for films, panels and tributes. Last week saw the cancellation of the Palm Springs International Film Festival, which was set to start this week, and the Sundance Film Festival announced this week that it would pivot to a virtual festival.

“West Side Story’s” Ariana DeBose, “Licorice Pizza’s” Alana Haim and “Belfast’s” Caitriona Balfe are among the actors who will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Virtuosos Award this year.

In Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast,” a black-and-white, heartfelt memory piece told largely from the perspective of the filmmaker as a boy, the tension outside on the streets weighs on a young family.

Canada TIFF Belfast Director Kenneth Branagh, right, and actor Jamie Dornan walk the red carpet as they promote the film "Belfast" during the Toronto International Film Festival, in Toronto, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. The previous nine winners have all gone on to secure a best-picture Oscar nomination, as have 13 of the last 14 People's Choice prizewinners. “Belfast,” which first premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, draws from Branagh's own childhood in Belfast. Both “Dune” and “Spencer” didn't make themselves eligible for the People's Choice Award, which required both an in-person screening and availability on the festival digital portal. The People's Choice award for documentary went to E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin's "The Rescue," a non-fiction account of the 2018 mission to rescue the trapped youth soccer team from Thailand's Tham Luang cave.

Johnson and Dornan formerly co-starred together in the massively popular "Fifty Shades" film trilogy.

This week’s new entertainment releases include new music from Jakob Dylan and the Wallflowers and a reboot of “Gossip Girl” less than 10 years after the CW series ended.

"Fifty Shades" stars on the steamy new film Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, headliners of the film "Fifty Shades of Grey," open up about exploring their limits while shooting the movie. It is based on the best-selling novel by author E.L James, and opens nationwide on Friday. Suzanne Marques reports.