When this year’s list of new members invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is announced next week, Kobe Bryant — the basketball legend who won the best animated short Oscar in February for his autobiographical film Dear Basketball — will not be on it.
Bryant — who wrote, exec produced and lent his voice to Dear Basketball, which animator Glen Keane directed — was recommended for membership by the executive committee of the Academy’s short films and feature animation branch, but his name was removed after the list was reviewed by a second committee, which will present the list of potential new members to…
