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Most of the movies I nominated made Oscars list - Omotola

Nollywood’s Omotola Jalade Ekeinde is one of the over 6000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, producers of The Oscars.

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde is excited that most of the movies she nominated for Oscars made the 2019 list.

The actress, on her Instagram page, told her followers and fans how she voted as a member of The Academy in generating the Oscars nominee list. The Oscars nominees list was announced on Tuesday, January 22, 2018, by Kumail Nanjiani and Tracee Ellis Ross.

However, the ‘Alter Ego’ star expressed sadness that no African movie made it to the nominees' list.

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“Wasn’t So Excited No African Movie made it! Someday soon we will Be doing this for Africans!” she wrote.

Omotola was announced a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2018 alongside filmmaker and the brain behind ‘Battleground’, and ‘Tinsel’, Femi Odugbemi.

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