I saw it

Hmmm.

Lesson learned.
Stick to your mother tongue. You can't tell the organizers what should be the criteria, or for them to change their rule just to accommodate a first time entry from Nigeria.

That excuse about English being the official language is watery at best. Promote your culture instead. At worse, use pidgin English. Believe me, Caucasians get intrigued by it. Same like Jamaican patois.

Threebear:
I love Genevieve but to be honest , that movie was mediocre .

Place it side by side with other movies submitted for best foreign language and it looks extremely bland .

Having 500 plus languages is no excuse .

The requirement for the category has always been clear ....best FOREIGN language .

No need to sensationalize and act pitiable .

A lot of countries are multi lingual but still manage to showcase their cultures and primary language.

you state my thought exactly. i watch that movie once and i could say it was not interesting to some extent.

what i like about the movie is the picture quality and the way people organise in the scene.

3/10 for me

A test to your heart

Confirmedzombie:
This old cargo is a broke ugly olosho. No wonder at such age she is still single.
Husband snatcher

Who collect your biscuit?

What happened in the film sef?
Let me go and find out.

Threebear:
I love Genevieve but to be honest , that movie was mediocre .

Place it side by side with other movies submitted for best foreign language and it looks extremely bland .

Having 500 plus languages is no excuse .

The requirement for the category has always been clear ....best FOREIGN language .

No need to sensationalize and act pitiable .

A lot of countries are multi lingual but still manage to showcase their cultures and primary language.

Appreciate your own. That’s how an American said she enjoyed watching “Chief Daddy” on twitter and Nigerians camped in her mention telling her the movie was rubbish. How’s Lionheart mediocre. Mediocre of all words. Someone’s sweat that was considered forOscars

The same people that complained the Igbo was too much are the ones agreeing with the organisers that Igbo wasn't enough. Lol

Threebear:
I love Genevieve but to be honest , that movie was mediocre .

Place it side by side with other movies submitted for best foreign language and it looks extremely bland .

Having 500 plus languages is no excuse .

The requirement for the category has always been clear ....best FOREIGN language .

No need to sensationalize and act pitiable .

A lot of countries are multi lingual but still manage to showcase their cultures and primary language.

Read and understand. The whole brouhaha has nothing to do with the movie being mediocre, but the fact that the movie was disqualified for using more English time than Igbo language time whilst English is our official language. The basis for the disqualification is preposterous. It has nothing to do with the movie not being up to par with other films selected in its category.

She tried but that film and the story line can't stand Ti Oluwa ni Ile and Saworoide.

Confirmedzombie:
This old cargo is a broke ugly olosho. No wonder at such age she is still single.
Husband snatcher

says by someone with not less than 5k in his akant

Rules are rules and they spelled it out correctly. Maybe she should have submitted it in another category.

Threebear:
I love Genevieve but to be honest , that movie was mediocre .

Place it side by side with other movies submitted for best foreign language and it looks extremely bland .

Having 500 plus languages is no excuse .

The requirement for the category has always been clear ....best FOREIGN language .

No need to sensationalize and act pitiable .

A lot of countries are multi lingual but still manage to showcase their cultures and primary language.

Did you even read the OP?

Threebear:
I love Genevieve but to be honest , that movie was mediocre .

Place it side by side with other movies submitted for best foreign language and it looks extremely bland .

Having 500 plus languages is no excuse .

The requirement for the category has always been clear ....best FOREIGN language .

No need to sensationalize and act pitiable .

A lot of countries are multi lingual but still manage to showcase their cultures and primary language.

Bland, mediocre or not, the sheer fact of it getting that trail-blazing Oscar nomination is enough testament to the quality in that movie. Believe me, that matters more than your appraisal.

The film portrayed the Nigerian cultural reality even to a sublime level. You can not be in Nigeria and not know that English language, with all its Nigerian slants, is our language of first choice. So many families have even outlawed the speaking of the local language in favour of English language.

Without talking too much, that is our reality, and it is what she portrayed. If she had done much more of it in Igbo, then it would not have been really Nigerian--people like you wouldn't have been able to really watch it to the extent of even forming an opinion about it.

There is nothing 'sensational' about the fact that Nigeria is a country of 500+ disparate ethnic identities, and that the English language [with its Nigerian slants] is the bridge between us. It is the FACT.

P.S.: Genny is in a class of her own!

Threebear:
I love Genevieve but to be honest , that movie was mediocre .

Place it side by side with other movies submitted for best foreign language and it looks extremely bland .

Having 500 plus languages is no excuse .

The requirement for the category has always been clear ....best FOREIGN language .

No need to sensationalize and act pitiable .

A lot of countries are multi lingual but still manage to showcase their cultures and primary language.

God bless you a bunch,same thing I clarify on Twitter and some bunch think iam not patriotic, why do we Nigerians love overlooking rules and regulations,the criteria for that category has always been there and clear,except if they change it in the future.

Genny & other Nigerian producers/directors should just take a cue from this to promote our cultural heritage more in their movies.
Been nominated in the first place is huge in my opinion.

The truth is the film doesn't deserve an Oscar.

Geni I love you.
The movie has Good picture quality.
But it's overrated.

olasaad:
I think the host read nairalanders comment

No. NL people were complaining the Igbo was too much. The host is complaining the Igbo wasn't enough.

Great news, produce news on your native language,

SolarRen:
King of boys is closest thing to a Hollywood blockbuster movie Nigeria has ever produced.

Where can I download the movie from?

I don't understand ooo

Confirmedzombie:
This old cargo is a broke ugly olosho. No wonder at such age she is still single.
Husband snatcher

stfu

What’s wrong with you?

What a mentality

MANABBQGRILLS:
Great news, produce news on your native language,

nah! That won’t work! I ain’t Igbo so I will feel it’s a movie for Igbos. We should start taking advantage of our pigin

So the 20mins they were speaking yiboe in the movie was for it to be accepted by oscars? The oscars team lied. Reason they rejected the movie was because watching chickens mating is way more interesting than that boring flick

Threebear:
I love Genevieve but to be honest , that movie was mediocre .

Place it side by side with other movies submitted for best foreign language and it looks extremely bland .

Having 500 plus languages is no excuse .

The requirement for the category has always been clear ....best FOREIGN language .

No need to sensationalize and act pitiable .

A lot of countries are multi lingual but still manage to showcase their cultures and primary language.

Read before you comment.... It wasn't disqualified for being mediocre.... Netflix didn't pay so much for a mediocre film...

It was disqualified for having too much English o....

Someone managed to put on a good show without need for excess graphics.... Mediocre films ain't nominated for Oscars....
Best international feature not foreign language

If you no like am.... Don't bother commenting...
The fact that the film made so much money shows very well how mediocre it is.... Nonsense

Hate everywhere.... for nothing

She is even lucky Netflix bought the movie..considering it for any award is pushing it tbh

Let's kukuma make pidgin official language then....

Is she drunk?

That film is not good enough for a paper award at a drunken clown party, talk more of the Oscars.

It's so sad! Every language should be respected and appreciated.

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tstx:
Sad

Saw the full story today.. Almost wept for her.

Oscar 2020: Lionheart Disqualified for Having Too Much English Dialogue

There's still time. In fact enough time to weep and reweep.
Shebi u don't have anything else tangible to weep for.
The problems in this country eh.