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Academy Disqualifies Nigeria’s Oscar Entry ‘Lionheart’

Academy Disqualifies Nigeria- Oscar Entry-Lionheart

The Academy has disqualified Nigeria’s Lionheart from the Oscar race in the Best International Feature Film category, dropping the number of films competing for the award to 92 from what had been a record 93 entries.

Genevieve Nnaji’sLionheart‘ movies was the first film ever submitted to the Oscars by Nigeria.

What would have been a groundbreaking breakthrough for Nigeria’s Nollywood industry has now sparked debates across the country leaving many to wonder if our official language as a nation is actually been recognized by our colonial masters in this present day.

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Lionheart, in which Nnaji also stars, is partially in the Igbo language of Nigeria. But it is mostly in English, which violates an Academy rule that entries in the category must have “a predominantly non-English dialogue track.”

 

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Also read: NOLLYWOOD: GENEVIEVE’S MOVIE, LIONHEART, MAKES THE OSCAR’S NOMINATION LISTS

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