How Ego Boyo, Omotola Ekeinde, Stephanie Linus And Others Denied Kunle Afolayan’s Anikulapo Movie An Oscar

Earlier these days, the information made the rounds online that the distinctly rated “Anikulapo” film, with the aid of ace manufacturer, Kunle Afolayan, turned into rejected with the aid of the Nigerian Oscars committee. Despite the positive critiques Anikulapo has gotten in nations all over the world because its surest, the Academy Awards do not suppose it merits being nominated.

The Oscars additionally called the Academy Awards, are prizes given for inventive and technical excellence inside the home and worldwide cinema industries. Many people recollect the awards to be the maximum prestigious and critical ones in the worldwide amusement industry.

Expressing his sadness on his Instagram web page moments in the past, Kunle Afolayan wrote “I am so pleased and extremely joyful that the entire world has decided to tag ANIKULAPO film a masterpiece even though the Nigeria Oscar choice committee assume it now not really worth submitting for the Oscars.

Will hold doing my personal thing” more information on how the movie became rejected for the prestigious award. It has been amassed that eight (8) individuals out of the 15-member committee of the Nigerian Official Selection Committee (NOSC) of the 2023 Oscar awards rejected all 3 films despatched in for attention, including Anikulapo.

“Although the committee received 3 epic films following its call for submissions in August, it became out that none of them will develop to the next degree attributable to the balloting patterns of individuals.”In a consultation that lasted hours on September three, 2023, the NOSC recorded a vote casting chart of ‘8:5:1:1’ from its 15 members- with ‘no movie is eligible’ taking the lead.”

As a result of “No movie is eligible” taking the lead, all the films were turned down.

How Ego Boyo, Omotola Ekeinde, Stephanie Linus and others denied Kunle Afolayan’s Anikulapo movie an Oscar

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Members of the committee are; CHINEZE ANYAENE – ABONYI (Chair individual), Ego Boyo, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, John Njamah, MAHMOOD ALI-BALOGUN, Stephanie Linus, Shaibu Husseini, BRUCE AYONOTE, Izu Ojukwu, ODUBAWO ADETOKUNBO, Moses Babatope, Yibo Koko, Meg Otanwa and Kenneth Gyang.