EVEN though a local Oscars selection committee has since
February 2014 been constituted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts &
Sciences to select an entry that will best represent Nollywood in the Best
Foreign Language Film category for the annual Academy Awards, Nigeria did not
feature on the list of 83 countries that have submitted films for consideration
in that category of the prestigious award.
Chairman, Nigeria Oscars Selection Committee (NOSC),
Chineze Anyaene, confirmed during the week that though the selection committee
received a number of entries, none of them, according to her, "met the
basic criteria for selection'. The academy insists that entries for the foreign
language film category must be feature-length movie produced outside of the
U.S. with a predominantly non-English dialogue track and accurate English
subtitles. But according to Anyaene who produced and directed the commercially
successful movie Ije, most of the entries the committee received were
"either in English and some of those that were not in English were not
properly subtitled and quite a number of them were lacking in some technical
details".
