{"id":101186,"date":"2022-10-10T19:52:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T19:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/?p=101186"},"modified":"2022-10-10T19:52:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T19:52:37","slug":"anikulapo-kunle-afolayan-addresses-nigeria-oscar-selection-committee-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/2022\/10\/10\/anikulapo-kunle-afolayan-addresses-nigeria-oscar-selection-committee-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Anikulapo: Kunle Afolayan addresses Nigeria Oscar selection committee controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Filmmaker Kunle Afolayan has addressed the controversy surrounding his new movie <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Anikulapo <\/span><span class=\"s1\">and the Nigerian Official Selection Committee (NOSC) for the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Led by Chineze Anyaene-Abonyi, the committee, responsible for submitting a Nigerian film in the International Feature Film (IFF) category of the Oscars, faced heavy criticism over the decision not to submit the three films that made it to the final of the selection process for the 2023 Oscars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/2022\/08\/09\/just-in-blood-sisters-director-biyi-bandele-is-dead\/\">Biyi Bandele<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><em>Eleshin Oba<\/em>: <i>The King\u2019s Horseman,<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/2022\/09\/02\/muyiwa-ademola-toyin-abraham-others-react-as-femi-adebayo-calls-his-brother-sodiq-a-disgrace-to-the-family\/\">Femi Adebayo<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>King of Thieves<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/2022\/09\/29\/how-my-father-discouraged-us-from-filmmaking-asked-us-to-be-lawyers-instead-kunle-afolayan-spills\/\">Kunle Afolayan<\/a>\u2019s <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>Anikulapo<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> made it to the final selection process but were not submitted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker had earlier made it known that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/2022\/10\/03\/not-worth-submitting-oscars-turndown-kunle-afolayans-movie-anikulapo\/\">Nigeria Oscar had rejected his movie after deeming it unworthy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Addressing the matter in a recent interview with Channels Television Kunle said:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFor a film to qualify for Oscar in the US, different countries will pre-select and then present the film to the Oscars and then I submitted and I know a number of people submitted and last year when they said no film was eligible, we ensured that we meet all the criteria, as a matter of fact, <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Anikulapo<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> is supposed to be exclusive to just Netflix we were not supposed to do cinema but because Netflix also would like to submit they gave a bit of window because one of the condition is you have to do at least seven days in the cinema so we met all the conditions and then they went to vote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIf you have films that qualify, why would you eight members of the committee say no film is eligible? Up to now, they haven\u2019t come out to explain the meaning of no film is eligible, because they wrote to us to say \u2018oh you didn\u2019t have enough votes\u2019. and it\u2019s just a shame because this is the first time you are going to have this quality of the film. 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