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LOS ANGELES — Sacha Baron Cohen, Marion Cotillard, Ruby Dee and Jet Li have been invited to join Hollywood’s most exclusive clubthe group that hands out the Academy Awards.
They were among 105 actors, filmmakers, executives and others in the movie biz who were asked to become members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Cotillard, right, won the best actress Oscar in February for “La Vie En Rose,” while Cohen, left, had a screenplay nomination the previous year for “Borat.” Also invited were actors Josh Brolin and Allison Janney; Jason Reitman, a best-director nominee for last year’s “Juno”; and that film’s writer, Diablo Cody, who won the original-screenplay Oscar. The academy has just under 6,000 voting members.
