WHY ‘LION HEART’ WILL BE NOMINATED FOR OSCARS – US BASED NIGERIAN ACTOR
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Joseph Omoniyi
US-based Nigerian actor, Best Davis who pioneered Nollywood USA has tipped Genevieve’s “Lion Heart” for Oscars nomination.
Davis who highlighted reasons movies from Nigeria have not been able to stir the American market, noted that the producer and director of the movie did a very good job unlike others who are marred by low production quality.
He applauded Genevieve’s Lion’s Heart for its recent achievement and tipped it for possible Oscars nomination, “I must give it to her. She’s been in the game, paid her dues and put together a wonderful film! One thing I think made the movie was the sound; it was exquisite! We have bad sound in our movies. You’re watching a Nollywood movie and then the volume suddenly goes up and while you’re still getting used to that, it just goes flat! Genevieve did a good job with Lionheart.”
“At the Oscars, there’s an international category so there is a possibility that Lionheart will be one of the movies to look out for at the Oscars. I think it should make it to that category because Lionheart has really made a lot of waves.”
Best Davis further noted that quality of productions still remains a challenge for the nigerian movie industry;
“The quality has to meet certain requirements. For example, if you to penetrate Netflix, there are some requirement that you have to adhere to. Same goes for Hollywood. For your film to play in US theatres, you have to have a real quality production. Why Nollywood movies haven’t really made it to US theatres is because of the kind of productions that we have. Most Americans do not understand what our expressions are. I did a film in 2006 and this guy was supposed to come from Nigeria, a newbie in the US. In the movie, it so happened that he was actually ‘forming’ American accent. That to me looks stupid! He was to portray a Nigerian immigrant who came to the US but he was trying to speak like an American. Automatically, that character was destroyed. In other to hit the Box Office, we have to curb such things.”
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