Nigeria's Oscar race entry Lionheart disqualified by Academy over use of English

[just444]

Academy Rules Under Fire After Nigeria Disqualified from International Film Race https://t.co/MXlyI2Fldg pic.twitter.com/BnvlZdcS8u
- Anne Thompson (@akstanwyck) November 5, 2019

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AMPAS requires movies to have a 'predominantly non-English dialogue track' to be eligible for the Best International Feature Film award

80% of the dialogue in

Comments

[baptismtonight]

so the academy is penalizing Nigeria...for...being colonized? Because whose fault is it that English is an official language of Nigeria? Okay.

[glutenfreefool]

Lmao right? My instinctive reaction was to think this was an issue because it's a Nigerian (non-white) film since the name change of the award makes it seem like so long as it was from a different country it could be submitted.

Anyway, if not being in English is a requirement I feel like the film should've been denied entry like, at most a week after it was submitted? Why did it take them so long to tell the film makers it wasn't eligible?

[frankthesheep]

Mte

[saintclaire87]

Ikr?

[urfad]

What are they doing? Jeez.

[thisjoanissima]

The problem lies with the name change because it causes confusion.

But I have to agree with the decision. This category's purpose is to have films in languages other than English, which isn't the case.

[eversofar]

if they're going to keep the requirement that the dialogue not be in english, then they probably should have thought of a less broad title than "best international film"

[josiefier]

Exactly. Should have just kept the original name for the award if they didn't want this issue.

[josiefier]

Just say you don't want African movies and be done with it. This is so stupid.