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Oprah praises Nadine Labaki's Oscar hopeful Capernaum
(World News) 5 years ago

Lebanese director Nadine Labaki is certainly having a moment: her latest film, Capernaum, is currently in the race to be nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar, and is also nominated for a Bafta.

The actual nominees for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film will be announced on January 22, along with the other nominations, but there is already a shortlist because it's such a large category (you can read more about the process here).

The very good news for Labaki, 44, is that one of the most high profile Academy members (who are the people who vote for the Oscars) has thrown her weight behind the film: Oprah.

 

 

 

 

Capernaum is Labaki's third film and tells the story of children in the slums of Beirut, using a cast of non-actors. The main storyline follows a 12-year-old boy who decides to sue his abusive parents, who he's already fled from, for the "crime" of giving him life.

Oprah pointed out that two of the amateur actors in the film "are so compelling on screen": Syrian refugee Zain Rafea, who was 12 when filming, and Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, who was deported from Lebanon to Kenya in March, according to Reuters.

Celebrated filmmaker Ava DuVermay responded to Oprah's tweet, also with praise for Labaki's film: "Watched it on Cannes jury. So beautiful. What gorgeous performances. Woman director!"

Labaki made history last year with Capernaum when she because the first female Arab director to win a major prize in competition at Cannes, picking up the Jury Prize for the emotional story, which received a standing ovation at the festival.

 

 

 

 

 

Capernaum isn't the only film Oprah has given an encouraging nod to Black Panther - she spoke in London in front of more than 100 Academy members last week, and called the Marvel film, "a phenomenon in every way, on every level".

"Makes me tear up to think that little black children will grow up with 'Wakanda forever,'" she added. "It's game-changing, it's pride-making, it's dazzling, it's phenomenal."

 

 

 

 

Source: The National ae

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