– He points out the quality of Nigerian films
– He says Nigerian films do not target big
awards
– How Nigerian films subtitling works
against it
Former President Jonathan with Nigerian
actors and actresses.
A member of the Nigerian Oscar selection
committee is defending the organisers of
Oscar awards over non-inclusion of Nigerian
movies.
Highlighting the reasons why Nigerian
movies are missing out in the international
awards Shaibu Husseini who is a member of
the Nigerian Oscar selection committee
blames it on the poor quality of production
and bad subtitles.
Husseini spoke with the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) during which he said the
Oscar award foreign category was meant for
films produced in foreign languages but
despite that Nigerian films are yet to make it
to get nominated at the well celebrated the
awards.
“Nigeria has not been lucky to have entries
there because we don’t produce targeting
those kinds of awards.
“We just produce to send DVD into the market;
there is no conscious effort to produce for
Oscars.
“All these films that you see getting into
Oscar, whether in the main category, even the
language categories, once they start producing
it, they are targeting those Oscar awards.
“They are targeting Globe (awards), they are
targeting big awards because whether we like
it or not, those awards have a way of helping
publicity for the film, they have a way of
helping marketing for the film.
“And what does the Oscar Foreign Language
Category entail? It entails that you must do a
film in your local language, in a language that
is local to you and in a language that is
considered a foreign language.
‘And it must be like 70% of your local
language and if you must use English at all, it
must be like 30%.
“Apart from that, it must be well subtitled and
it must be of quality.
“The committee now is like four years old but
we have not been able to have entries that will
qualify.’’
– He says Nigerian films do not target big
awards
– How Nigerian films subtitling works
against it
Former President Jonathan with Nigerian
actors and actresses.
A member of the Nigerian Oscar selection
committee is defending the organisers of
Oscar awards over non-inclusion of Nigerian
movies.
Highlighting the reasons why Nigerian
movies are missing out in the international
awards Shaibu Husseini who is a member of
the Nigerian Oscar selection committee
blames it on the poor quality of production
and bad subtitles.
Husseini spoke with the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) during which he said the
Oscar award foreign category was meant for
films produced in foreign languages but
despite that Nigerian films are yet to make it
to get nominated at the well celebrated the
awards.
“Nigeria has not been lucky to have entries
there because we don’t produce targeting
those kinds of awards.
“We just produce to send DVD into the market;
there is no conscious effort to produce for
Oscars.
“All these films that you see getting into
Oscar, whether in the main category, even the
language categories, once they start producing
it, they are targeting those Oscar awards.
“They are targeting Globe (awards), they are
targeting big awards because whether we like
it or not, those awards have a way of helping
publicity for the film, they have a way of
helping marketing for the film.
“And what does the Oscar Foreign Language
Category entail? It entails that you must do a
film in your local language, in a language that
is local to you and in a language that is
considered a foreign language.
‘And it must be like 70% of your local
language and if you must use English at all, it
must be like 30%.
“Apart from that, it must be well subtitled and
it must be of quality.
“The committee now is like four years old but
we have not been able to have entries that will
qualify.’’
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