There are 366 feature films eligible for this year’s Oscars and Ali Kazmi’s Funny Boy is one of them.
The Awards will be held on April 25 and nominations will be announced on March 15. Members of the Academy will vote for the categories from March 5 to March 10.
Pakistani actor Ali Kazmi is head over heels after discovering that his film, Funny Boy, has landed amongst the 366 films eligible for Best Picture at the 93rd Academy Awards.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Kazmi’s film is among the 366 feature films that have been considered eligible for the Best Picture category at the Oscars this year.
The Academy will share five to 10 best picture nominees. Following this, voting will commence from March 5 and last till March 10. On March 15, the final nominees will then announced.
To celebrate the news, the Baaji actor took to Instagram to share a screenshot of the list. In the caption, he pointed out how he had ended up on a list featuring. The likes of A-listers such as Matthew McConaughey.
The movie is about a young boy falling in love with a male classmate as political tensions escalate in Sri Lanka between the Sinhalese and Tamils in the years leading up to the 1983 uprisings. A 26-year civil war was triggered, leading to the deaths of over 100,000 people. It is based on Shyam Selvadurai’s Sri Lanka-set coming-of-age novel of the same name.
its stars are Ali Kazmi, Brandon Ingram, Nimmi Harasgama, and Agam Darshi and are directed by Deepa Mehta
Ali Kazmi has been in several local and international films, such as Motorcycle Girl, Laal Kabootar, Superstar, Sardar Ji, and The Dependable