Blavity’s Shadow and Act can exclusively announce that Tubi has named Nigerian-American actress, writer and producer Rosemary ...

Set up by filmmaker Femi D. Ogunsanwo and finance execs Tunde Leye and Adedayo Amzat, the fund has already invested in heist-thriller 'The Lagos Job.' By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent The banner’s $3 ...

Under academy rules, international entries must predominantly be in a non-English language. It’s not the first movie to be disqualified for this reason. By Cara Buckley Nigeria’s first submission for ...

Akinola Davies, the director of "My Father's Shadow", Nigeria's first film to win an award at the Cannes film festival, is ...

Nigeria’s first-ever submission for best international feature Oscar consideration, the comedy “Lionheart,” has been disqualified by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for having too much ...

The Nigerian Official Selection Committee has announced that Nigeria will not submit any film for the International Feature Film category at the 2026 Academy Awards.In a statement on Monday, NOSC ...

There’s everything that the average English man in 1926 would have expected from Africa; guns, spears, bows and arrows, alcoholic kings and a white woman who tries to save the cannibals from ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — In Nigeria, people felicitate the successful, police open cans of worms on cutlass-brandishing miscreants, and the criminal rascals meet their Waterloo. Touts, urchins, and heaps of ...

Nigeria isn’t “international” enough for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, apparently. The nation’s first Oscar submission for best international film has been disqualified by the ...