The National Official Selection Committee (NOSC) Nigeria’s official selection committee for the Academy of Motion Picture, Arts and Sciences, known as the Oscars has announced no submission for Oscar 2023 as Nigerian films fail eligibility criteria.
This was made known in a Chineze Anyaene-Abonyi, NOSC chairperson who said that three non-English language titles reportedly emerged finalists but failed to satisfactorily meet the IFF eligibility criteria.
Chineze added that she regrets the failure of the 15-member NOSC committee to in find an eligible submission after it failed to reach a consensus on the three contending titles due to their voting patterns.
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“Although the committee received three epic films following its call for submissions in August, it turned out that none of them will advance to the next stage owing to the voting patterns of members,” an excerpt of the statement read.
The committee delivered a ‘no film eligibility’ verdict on September 3, 2022.