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‘Lionheart’ and voices of cinema

Visvajit Sriramrajan November 19, 2019

This past week, “Lionheart,” the first Nigerian film ever reviewed for an Academy Award for “Best International Feature” was disqualified from consideration on the basis of excessive English language dialogue. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has long maintained a regulation on the amount of English spoken in films submitted to this award category, citing that there is a gray area with regard to which films are international enough to qualify.

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