Boone Isaacs announced Friday that the academy will double the number of female and minority members by 2020, and will immediately diversify its leadership by adding three new seats to its board of governors, to be filled in the coming weeks.

-A global sponsorship program designed recruit a group of qualified and diverse new members.

"The academy will also take immediate action to increase diversity by adding new members who are not governors to its executive and board committees where key decisions about membership and governance are made", the announcement adds.

The first and most noteworthy change is a new rule stating that new members will be eligible to vote for nominees for a period of 10 years, after which their eligibility will be renewed as long as they have been active in movies during that time. Later this year a member's voting status will last 10 years and will be renewed if the member has been active in film over that decade. Lifetime voting status will only be administered after three consecutive ten-year stints, or after a member has been nominated for or won an Oscar.

Those current members who do not qualify for active status will be moved to "emeritus status", where they do not pay dues and do not vote, but enjoy the other privileges of membership.

"The Academy is going to lead and not wait for the industry to catch up", said Isaacs. "These new measures regarding governance and voting will have an immediate impact and begin the process of significantly changing our membership composition".

Last year's Oscar broadcast, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, was also boycotted by some viewers because of the all-white slate of acting nominees. As Lee said on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016, its 6,000-plus membership can’t be changed “hocus pocus, presto chango” overnight.

"There's a lot of conversation out there", Boone Isaacs said.

The overhauls include several changes. This will not affect voting for this year's Oscars.

Both had pledged not to attend the Oscars this year.

The Golden Globe Award acting nominations this year were also mostly white, with Elba and Will Smith the only black nominees.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced a new plan to avoid #OscarsSoWhite happening again - and it's going to make some people very, very mad. They were developed by Boone Isaacs and the board's membership and administration committee, chaired by Phil Robertson, who represents the writers branch on the board of governors.