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Barakat: First SA film in Cape Town's Afrikaans dialect in race for an Oscar
Barakat has been selected as South Africa's official submission for Best International Feature at the 94th Academy Awards in 2022.
WATCH: In Iceland, this village is basking in the glow of an Oscar-nominated song
There are a couple of drinking establishments and a few small hotels in Husavik, and some of movie stars visit the hot springs on the mountainside that look out over the sea.
WATCH: ’My Octopus Teacher’s Craig Foster ’deeply honoured’ by Oscar win
Foster, a documentary filmmaker for 28 years, says the Oscar victory brings life affirming kudos to the media advocacy work by the film’s producing entity the Sea Change Project.
WATCH: Chloe Zhao makes history as first woman of colour to win best director Oscar
The Chinese filmmaker became the first woman of colour and only the second female ever to take home the Oscar thanks to her work on 'Nomadland'.
‘Nomadland’ wins best picture Oscar, lead star Frances McDormand gets best actress award
Earlier, Chloe Zhao was awarded the Best Director Oscar for ’Nomadland,’ becoming the first woman of colour and the first Chinese woman to ever win the Academy Award for directing.
SA’s ’My Octopus Teacher’ wins best documentary film Oscar
The film becomes the first nature documentary to win an Academy Award since ’The Cove’ in 2010.
Sir Anthony Hopkins claims surprise best actor Oscar
The 83-year-old actor won the second Oscar of his storied career for a heart-wrenching performance as a man with dementia in ’The Father’.
Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson are first black women to receive Oscar nominations for hair and make-up
Is it possible that since 1981, there hasn’t been a single black woman that was good at make-up and hairstyling?