India's music maestro A.R. Rahman in addition to four other Oscar winners connected with the Academy award phenomenon Slumdog Millionaire, have been invited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts in addition to Sciences to join its roster of voting members.

Rahman has been documented for his music in Slumdog Millionaire and Elizabeth: The Golden Age, even as director Danny Boyle is in the limelight for Sunshine in addition. Besides Slumdog Millionaire, producer Christian Colson has turn out to be famous with The Descent, cinematographer Anthony DOD Mantle for The Last King of Scotland as well as motion picture editor Chris Dickens selected for Shaun of the Dead.

They are in the middle of 134 artists in addition to executives who have eminent themselves by their donations to theatrical motion pictures. "These movie makers have, over the course of their careers, captured the mind's eye of audiences approximately the world," said Academy President Sid Ganis in an announcement from Beverly Hills, California. "It's this kind of aptitude in addition to creativity that makes up the Academy, and I welcome each of them to our ranks."