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Another Movie About Nigerians Disqualified From Oscars’ Best International Feature Category

MEDIA Posted: November 12, 2019 5:33 am

Last week, controversy broke out when Nigeria’s first-ever submission for what used to be called the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar was ruled out because a large majority of the dialogue is in English. Now Austria’s submission, a story of Nigerian sex workers in Vienna titled Joy, has been rejected for the same reason: two-thirds of the dialogue is in English. – The Hollywood Reporter

MEDIA Published: 11.11.19

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