Oscars: Three Nigerians make Academy’s members list
An Oscar statue is pictured at the press preview for the 91st Academy Awards Governors Ball, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Los Angeles. The 91st Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, Feb. 24. at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. They include the iconic filmmaker, Tunde Kelani, for directing; Hollywood star Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje for acting and the fast-rising Chinonye Chukwu for writing.
Mr Akinnuoye-Agbaje, on the other hand, has been on a steady rise, standing out in Hollywood films like ‘The Bourne Identity’, ‘Thor: The Dark World’, ‘Suicide Squad’ and ‘Game of Thrones”. They will join actresses Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde and Wunmi Mosaku as well as film producer and directors Femi Odugbemi and Ngozi Onwurah who made the 2018 list.The new list sees a visibly improved racial and gender considerations in the 2019 list that tops the 2018 list.This raises the percentage of women in the Academy from 31 to 32 per cent, while the percentage of people of colour remains at 16 per cent, the same as in 2018.
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