New members of the Academy

Well, it's that time of year again... the time when the Academy selects some new members to join. As usual, there were some great choices that make total sense (Jake Gyllenhaal!! David Strathairn!! Werner Herzog!! Noah Baumbach!! Lance Acord!!). But as usual, there's more stuff here that doesn't make any sense at all (Mark Waters? The best thing he's done was Mean Girls... But the most insane one is... Dakota Fanning??? She's like 9. She's not even old enough to legally see most of the nominated movies; how is she supposed to vote? Most of the other stuff makes more sense than that, but falls victim to the old rule of: you're nominated, you're basically guaranteed to be invited to join. Most of the list consists of people who've had one or two good films, got nominated last year, and now are on.
Anyways, here's the whole list here. Now you can read it and also wonder what the hell is going on...