*Ava DuVernay has called out The Academy for disqualifying Nigeria’s “Lionheart” from the Oscar race in the Best International Feature Film category. As reported by Thewrap, “Lionheart,” written, directed and starring Genevieve Nnaj, is partially in the Igbo language of Nigeria, but it’s mostly in English, which violates an Academy rule that entries in the […]
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