Another Nigerian acted movie 'Joy' rejected for Oscar's award
The Academy of Motion Pictures has rejected a second entry for next year's Oscar award for Best International Film.
The Austrian movie, Joy, is about Nigerian sex-workers in Vienna, but the Academy says it has too much dialogue in English.
Last week it turned down Nigeria's own submission, Lionheart, for the same reason.
The rejections come in the year when the Academy re-named the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar award to Best International Film for films that are not in the English language.
Academy said it found that two-thirds of the dialogue in Joy was in English.
The movie was written and directed by Austrian filmmaker SUDABEH MORTEZAI.
Renowned film director AVA DUVERNAY has faulted the Academy's decision.
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