Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 395 new members to join this year.

“The number invited to membership was limited to roughly half that of recent years,” said an Academy statement.

New inductees include Janet Jackson, Issa Rae, Steven Yeun, Laverne Cox, and Maria Bakalova.

After years of rapid expansion to boost diversity among its members, Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences slashed its new intake by more than half this year, the Oscar-awarding body.

The Academy invited just 395 new members to join Tinseltown’s most prestigious club, with inductees including Robert Pattinson, Janet Jackson and Borat breakout star Maria Bakalova.

The board of governors vowed five years ago to double the number of women and non-white members by 2020, following calls to boycott the glitzy Oscars and an angry social media backlash under the Hashtag #OscarsSoWhite due to a lack of diversity.

In pursuit of those targets, the group invited more than 800 new members over each of the past three years, causing its size to swell far beyond the traditional cap of around 6 000 active members to nearly 10000.

Having achieved its stated diversity goals, the floodgates now appear to have closed, although the new Academy intake is 46% female, 39% of minority background, and more than half international (not from the United States).

“To enable steady future growth and to ensure the necessary infrastructure, staff resources and environment to support all Academy members, the number invited to membership was limited to roughly half that of recent years,” said an Academy statement.

Also among new members are France’s Florian Zeller, director of Oscar-winning The Father, and several stars of the Korean-American immigrant drama Minari including Steven Yeun and Oscar winner Youn Yuh-jung.

Transgender actor Laverne Cox – who appeared in Fennell’s Promising Young Woman – was also invited to join the group, as were singers Jackson, H.E.R. and Andra Day and actors Issa Rae and Leslie Odom Jr. (One Night in Miami).

Seen as the apex body of the Hollywood film industry, the Academy issues a single round of invitations annually.

Only Academy members can vote for Oscar winners. Next year’s Oscars are set to take place on 27 March.

A temporary rule change introduced during the pandemic last year to allow films that premiere on streaming to compete will be kept in place.