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[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading source="post_title" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_empty_space height="25px"][vc_column_text css_animation="left-to-right"]Ladies and gentlemen, it is that time of the year again, where movies released in 2016 are recognized. By this I am talking about The 89^th Academy Awards, or "Oscars", which is an annual American awards ceremony hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements and scheduled to hold on February 26, 2017.

Here is my take on the movies nominated for various awards and who I think merits the awards.

NOMINEES FOR BEST PICTURE

Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight

This is probably the most sought after category because it represents the “perfect” movie for the year under review.

I would give it to Hacksaw Ridge because that movie had it all. Perfect acting and delivery, awesome plot and flawless directing.

NOMINEES FOR DIRECTING

Denis Villeneuve for Arrival
Mel Gibson for Hacksaw Ridge
Damien Chazelle for La La Land
Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the Sea
Barry Jenkins for Moonlight

Since my best movie for the year is Hacksaw Ridge, it’s only expected that I give it to Mel Gibson. However, with his many run-ins with Hollywood, I am not sure he will be given the award. *fingers crossed*

NOMINEES FOR ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington, Fences

I am sure you would expect that I will give this award to Andrew Garfield. His performance was superb but Denzel was just out of this wild. Did you see his almost 5 minute solo rant in the movie? How does one remember such lines?

NOMINEES FOR ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Isabelle Huppert in Elle
Ruth Negga in Loving
Natalie Portman in Jackie
Emma Stone in La La Land
Meryl Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins

Natalie wins this one for me. Her portrayal of Jackie Kennedy was faultless.

NOMINEES FOR ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Viola Davis in Fences
Naomie Harris in Moonlight
Nicole Kidman in Lion
Octavia Spencer in Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams in Manchester by the Sea

Viola Davis is definitely taking this trophy. She already snatched the Golden Globe for it, so why not an Oscar to put the cherry on the cake.

NOMINEES FOR ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Mahershala Ali in Moonlight
Jeff Bridges in Hell or High Water
Lucas Hedges in Manchester by the Sea
Dev Patel in Lion
Michael Shannon in Nocturnal Animals

I am thorn between Jeff Bridges and Mahershala Ali but I think Mahershala Ali should nick this one.

NOMINEES FOR ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Arrival, Eric Heisserer
Fences, August Wilson
Hidden Figures, Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi
Lion, Luke Davies
Moonlight, Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney

I think August Wilson’s adaptation of Fences was the best of the lot.

NOMINEES FOR ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Hell or High Water, Taylor Sheridan
La La Land, Damien Chazelle
The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou
Manchester by the Sea, Kenneth Lonergan
20th Century Women, Mike Mills

Taylor Sheridan is in the front of the pack in this category.

NOMINEES FOR ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
Zootopia

The stop motion graphics deployed in Kubo & the 2 Strings was just breathtaking but Moana was just out of this world. There was so much detail in the environment and because of this, it would most likely win this award.

NOMINEES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Land of Mine (Denmark)
A Man Called Ove (Sweden)
The Salesman (Iran)
Tanna (Australia)
Toni Erdmann (Germany)

I haven’t seen any of these movies, so I will just go with the Iranian movie, just because.

NOMINEES FOR DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Fire at Sea
I Am Not Your Negro
Life, Animated
O.J. Made in America
13^th

Again, another set of movies I have not seen. So randomly, I will pick I Am Not Your Negro just because it sounds nice.

NOMINEES FOR CINEMATOGRAPHY

Arrival, Bradford Young
La La Land, Linus Sandgren
Lion, Greig Fraser
Moonlight, James Laxton
Silence, Rodrigo Prieto

The camera works in La La Land accentuated the overall feel of the movie so it should win this.

NOMINEES FOR FILM EDITING

Arrival, Joe Walker
Hacksaw Ridge, John Gilbert
Hell or High Water, Jake Roberts
La La Land, Tom Cross
Moonlight, Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon

Arrival was perfectly edited especially when the movie was doing fast forwards. It was fantastic.

NOMINEES FOR PRODUCTION DESIGN

Arrival, Patrice Vermette and Paul Hotte
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Stuart Craig and Anna Pinnock
Hail, Caesar! , Jess Gonchor and Nancy Haigh
La La Land, Davis Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco
Passengers, Guy Hendrix Dyas and Gene Serdena

The overall visual appearance of Passengers was flawless. Fantastic Beast was good too but not as good.

NOMINEES FOR COSTUME DESIGN

Allied, Joanna Johnston
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Colleen Atwood
Florence Foster Jenkins, Consolata Boyle
Jackie, Madeline Fontaine
La La Land, Mary Zophres

Jackie takes the day, need I say more?

NOMINEES FOR MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

A Man Called Ove, Eva von Bahr and Love Larson
Star Trek Beyond, Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo
Suicide Squad, Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini, and Christopher Nelson

Suicide squad was the most glammed of the lot.

NOMINEES FOR ORIGINAL SCORE

Jackie, Mica Levi
La La Land, Justin Hurwitz
Lion, Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka
Moonlight, Nicholas Brittell
Passengers, Thomas Newman

If La La Land doesn’t take this, it will be Ojoro.

NOMINEES FOR ORIGINAL SONG

“Audition (The Fools who Dream),” La La Land, music by Justin Hurwitz, lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
“Can’t Stop the Feeling,” Trolls, music and lyric by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin, and Karl Johan Schuster
“City of Stars,” La La Land, music by Justin Hurwitz, lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
“The Empty Chair,” Jim: The James Foley Story, music and lyric by J. Ralph and Sting
“How Far I’ll Go,” Moana, music and lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda

My first inclination is to go with Trolls but that Lin-Manuel song in Moana is life.

NOMINEES FOR SOUND EDITING

Arrival, Sylvain Bellemare
Deepwater Horizon, Wylie Stateman and Renée Tondelli
Hacksaw Ridge, Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright
La La Land, Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan
Sully, Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman

Hacksaw Ridge and their whizzing bullets was great but Deepwater with that constant creaking sound in the background takes the cake for me.

NOMINEES FOR SOUND MIXING

Arrival, Bernard Gariépy Strobl and Claude La Haye
Hacksaw Ridge, Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie, and Peter Grace
La La Land, Andy Nelson, Ai-Ling Lee, and Steve A. Morrow
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, David Parker, Christopher Scarabosio, and Stuart Wilson
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush, and Mac Ruth

13 hours is it o!

NOMINEES FOR VISUAL EFFECTS

Deepwater Horizon, Craig Hammack, Jason Snell, Justin Billington, and Burt Dalton
Doctor Strange, Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli, and Paul Corbould
The Jungle Book, Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, and Dan Lemmon
Kubo and the Two Strings, Steve Emerson, Oliver Jones, Brian McLean, and Brad Schiff
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel, and Neil Corbould

You can see the hardwork that went into Kubo & the 2 Strings but the Inception-esque Doctor Strange was superb. Star Wars wasn’t bad too.

NOMINEES FOR ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
Piper

Blind Vaysha just because it sounds like an old kung fu movie.

NOMINEES FOR LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

Ennemis Intérieurs
La Femme et le TGV
Silent Nights
Sing
Timecode

Time code sounds nice ….

NOMINEES FOR DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

Extremis
4.1 Miles
Joe’s Violin
Watani: My Homeland
The White Helmets

Extremis has a nice ring to it…

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Review of AYAMMA

From the stables of Emem Isong’s Royal Arts Academy comes this musical drama set in an Ibibio speaking (but fictitious village) where 2 brothers Dariama (Wale Ojo) and Ekom (Majid Michaels) are locked in a battle for the throne of the kingdom. When Dariama is mysteriously struck by insanity only the songs from a poor orphan girl called Ikor (Adesuwa Etomi) can soothe him.

The Wedding Party

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Producer : Sarah John

Cast : Banky Wellington, Adesuwa Etomi

Genre : Comedy/Drama

Release Date : December 14, 2016

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[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading source="post_title" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_empty_space height="25px"][vc_column_text css_animation="left-to-right"]The Wedding Party chronicles the drama (and comedy) that goes down on the wedding day of Dozie Onwuka (Banky Wellington) and Dunni Coker (Adesuwa Etomi). Everything that could go wrong, went wrong and came to a head as a family feud broke out spearheaded by Dozie’s mother, Obianuju (Ireti Doyle) and Dunni’s mother Tinuade (Sola Sobowale a.k.a Toyin Tomato). It escalates to a battle for supremacy between Team bourgeois and Team faaji.

You will not see a funnier movie this year. It checks all the boxes that you could want in a comedy; Storytelling(P), Drama (P), Acting (P), Plot (P) and most importantly, it was genuinely funny. There was no dull moment in the movie with something always happening and just when you think nothing else could happen, it does.

Funny, I have always known Kemi Adetiba as a phenomenal music video director and I am not sure if this is her movie directorial debut but she did an amazing job. Her bias for music videos was pretty evident in scenes that involved music because those scenes looked like one extended movie video…and this is a good thing because it ensured that we didn’t get bored and zone out.

Another thing I was impressed with is that even though Banky and Adesuwa were the main characters, the movie wasn’t just about them. Everyone in the movie seemed to have their own story which was well told in quick and interesting scenes. At one time, the smoking hot Beverly Naya was running the show, then suddenly RMD and his “Small Chops” took center stage and then Ikechukwu then came in with his own mischief. I like the way everyone’s backstory was woven into the plot of the movie and tied neatly in a bow. You can be sure that ethnic stereotypes were highlighted and lampooned.

I must say, all the actors brought their A game. RMD was his usual legendary self, Ireti be classy as crazy, Banky W (who I didn’t expect much from) was amazing and Ali Baba was Ali Baba. However, Toyin Tomato was my stand out actor- that woman is just ridiculously funny. It was also nice having cameos by the likes of Emma Oh My God, Frank Donga and Saka.

Everyone knows that Weddings are full of Drama and Thrills and The Wedding Party brings all the Comedy and Drama you could want in a movie. Y’all need to go and see this because it is genuinely funny and more!

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As always, thanks for dropping in and come back again will ya?

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