Oscar Academy invites more women and minorities plus Lenny Abrahamson!

The Academy Awards 2016 were dogged by controversy surrounding the predominantly white and male dominance, and that's set to change.

The Oscars ran into more controversy than usual in 2016 with very reasonable accusations of being less than representative when it comes to the spread of race and gender within the Academy. Currently members are 75 percent male and 92 percent white and the nominees in most major categories reflected that.

The result was a massive public outcry with boycotting of the ceremony and a campaign around the OscarsSoWhite hashtag. For an event that's supposed to celebrate the best in entertainment from the previous year, it went about as wrong as you can imagine.