Kobe Bryant just got rejected at the rim by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences -- which just denied membership to the Mamba ... claiming he doesn't have a good enough body of work.
You know what he does have? AN OSCAR!!!!
Kobe won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short for "Dear Basketball" -- which was based off a retirement letter he published on The Players' Tribune back in 2015.
Kobe is credited as the executive producer and writer of the film.
Worth noting, Oscar winners are automatically considered for membership -- but it's not a shoe-in.