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Deepa Mehta's Funny Boy Out of Oscars' International Feature Category © Provided by News18 Deepa Mehta's Funny Boy Out of Oscars' International Feature Category India-born Deepa Mehta, who has made Canada her home for a long time, has had to face disappointment with her latest outing, Funny Boy. It was submitted as Canada's Oscar entry in the International Feature Category, but has been rejected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, because the rule here states that more than 50 per cent of the dialogues must be in a language other than English. Funny Boy fails here, for its ...

Oscars disqualify Canada's queer drama Funny Boy from best international feature race Deepa Mehta's controversial film will no longer represent Canada in the International Feature category because it has too much English dialogue by Radheyan Simonpillai on December 18th, 2020 at 3:00 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1 Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy is no longer eligible for Oscars consideration in the International Feature Film category. According to a statement from Telefilm Canada, the film did not feature enough Tamil and Sinhala to meet the Academy Award’s requirement that 50 percent of the spoken dial...

Posted: Dec 18, 2020 3:49 PM ET | Last Updated: December 18, 2020 Actors Brandon Ingram, left, and Rehan Mudannayake appear in a still from Deepa Mehta's film Funny Boy. Telefilm Canada said the movie is no longer eligible for best international feature film at the Oscars. (Vidur Bharatram)

David Friend Director Deepa Mehta poses for a photo at TIFF Bell Lightbox Cinema in Toronto, Thursday, November 17, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Marta Iwanek December 18, 2020 - 2:32 PM TORONTO - Telefilm Canada says Deepa Mehta's "Funny Boy" has been disqualified from competing for best international feature film at the Oscars because it falls short of the non-English language requirements. The Academy of Motion Picture of Arts and Sciences notified Telefilm that Mehta's coming-of-age story, originally billed as being mostly in the Tamil language, doesn't meet the cri...

ARRAY Releasing Ava DuVernay's ARRAY Releasing sold Deepa Mehta's Sri Lanka-set drama to Netflix as it had expected to compete in the best international feature category at the Academy Awards. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has disqualified Deepa Mehta's Funny Boy, Canada's entry for best international feature Oscar consideration, for having too much dialogue in English. "Although we were disappointed when informed by the Academy, we are excited to extend our ongoing support for Funny Boy as the journey to the Oscars continues,” Christa Dickenson, executive director of Te...