Nigeria’s aspirations for an Oscar win in the International Feature Film category at the 2024 Academy Awards have been dashed as its entry, “Mami Wata,” failed to secure a spot on the coveted shortlist.

The Nigerian Official Selection Committee (NOSC) had fervently chosen “Mami Wata,” a film that previously garnered accolades at the Sundance Festival, as its contender for the 96th Academy Awards’ International Feature Film category. However, the film fell short when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed the shortlisted films from 15 countries.

The shortlisted films, hailing from diverse regions, include “The Monk and the Gun” from Bhutan, “Amerikatsi” from Armenia, “The Promised Land” from Denmark, “The Taste of Things” from France, “Fallen Leaves” from Finland, “The Teachers’ Lounge” from Germany, “Godland” from Iceland, “Perfect Days” from Japan, “Io Capitano” from Italy, “Totem” from Mexico, “The Mother of All Lies” from Morocco, “Four Daughters” from Tunisia, “Society of Snow” from Spain, “20 Days in Mariupol” from Ukraine, and “The Zone of Interest” from the United Kingdom.

The 96th Oscars, scheduled for Sunday, March 10, 2024, will be globally broadcasted from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation, Hollywood, reaching audiences in over 200 territories worldwide.

https://mediatalkafrica.com/138876/nigerias-mami-wata-misses-out-on-2024-oscars-international-feature-film-shortlist/

papi Wata nko,?

Nollywood dey try, but dey still far way behind

Well will you look at that, butter me up and call me a cheese cake, it's FTC on Christmas eve. Big things coming.

Seun make I drop. aza to redeem my FTC bonus nah ?

😁

Okay

Wahala

Damnnn niggar
Over rated dog shit way Nigerians dey act as movies

Ok

There's one thing I still don't understand!
Despite many watching it on TV that men deceive women and ended up being pregnant....

It still happen to the watchers!

All nonsense!

My own is, out of all the great movies that were produced this year, how come it's one "Mami water" that I have never heard of that was submitted?

Nigerians have done their nonsense again. Corruption everywhere.

Mami water ko, papi water ni

The name alone looks like what will not make it.

A

Mami what now?

Do you know how many great movies were produced this year alone? How it's PapiH20 that we are submitting? See where corruption has taken us to

Ok

slaawomirr:
Damnnn niggar
Over rated dog shit way Nigerians dey act as movies

I bet you don’t even have the intelligence to do an honest day work. Dog shit you.

Nollywood can't win international awards. When they start making visually stunning movies, then they have a chance. Most of their films depend on story, when the story is bad then the movie is wack unlike Hollywood and other movie industry that visuals alone carry the movie.

4words:
My own is, out of all the great movies that were produced this year, how come it's one "Mami water" that I have never heard of that was submitted?

Nigerians have done their nonsense again. Corruption everywhere.

Probably politics or miscalculation or no film meets the standard yet

Nigeria have good actors and actresses but bad script writers, i think the visual effects are also not good enough.

The story of most Nigerian movies is not deep enough, it is sometimes too predictable.

I can't blame them though because most Nigerians don't enjoy movies with more depth to it unless you are a Nigerian that's already a fan of Hollywood tv series and Korean series. They only like comedies with some actions, reason why the skit industry is booming in Nigeria.

gvg

Nigerians no Sabi act film ho ha. 99% of our movies na scrap. Especially the ones wey dem dey hype the most nowadays. Boring nonsense.

Old Nollywood far better than these present day nonsense. At least old Nollywood get heart and soul wetin this present movies get apart from graphics.

Imagine movies from Tunisia, Morocco, Armenia kwa making the shortlist, tells you how shite Nollywood is.

Oooosshhh!
OMG! 😱

Haydens:
The name alone looks like what will not make it.

Gbam! The name alone sounds ridiculous to the organisers.

Sucre6:
papi Wata nko,?

Nollywood dey try, but dey still far way behind

Well will you look at that, butter me up and call me a cheese cake, it's FTC on Christmas eve. Big things coming.

Seun make I drop. aza to redeem my FTC bonus nah ?

pls become our papi water.

slaawomirr:
Damnnn niggar
Over rated dog shit way Nigerians dey act as movies

Nothing in your eyes. From Nigeria is good why

Sucre6:
papi Wata nko,?

Nollywood dey try, but dey still far way behind

Well will you look at that, butter me up and call me a cheese cake, it's FTC on Christmas eve. Big things coming.

Seun make I drop. aza to redeem my FTC bonus nah ?

na your WhatsApp

tuzle:
Nollywood can't win international awards. When they start making visually stunning movies, then they have a chance. Most of their films depend on story, when the story is bad then the movie is wack unlike Hollywood and other movie industry that visuals alone carry the movie.

No such thing as international movie award. Movie making is arts and arts is culture. Culture itself is clime-specific. Nollywood movie should never be rated with Hollywood standard. Hollywood movies like you rightly noted are more of visual entertainment while in nollywood, it is story based. Old nollywood producers were very creative storytellers, they only needed to develop in cinematography. Instead, however, the so called new ones out of inferiority complex started pursuing Hollywood standard and awards and abandoned storytelling. This is why most nollywood fans will tell nollywood movies these days are crap, despite the producers themselves claiming the industry has improved.