The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has disqualified Canada's entry for best international feature Oscar consideration, Deepa Mehta's Funny Boy, for having too much dialogue in English. By ...

Canada has picked Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy, an adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s coming-of-age novel of the same name, to represent the country in the 2021 Oscar race in the international feature ...

In the first trailer for “Funny Boy,” which is directed by Deepa Mehta and is released by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY, we explore the sexual awakening of a young boy in 1970s and ’80s Sri Lanka just as ...

Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy has been ruled ineligible for the international feature film Oscar after being entered as Canada’s submission for the award. According to a statement from Telefilm Canada, the ...

Deepa Mehta‘s “Funny Boy” will no longer compete in the Academy Awards’ international feature film category and will instead be submitted for consideration in the best picture and general entry ...

Deepa Mehta took Canada to the Oscars in 2006 with Water and she could do it again with Funny Boy. The daring Indian-Canadian director delivers one of her best and most beautiful films yet with this ...

Director Deepa Mehta's film Funny Boy will represent Canada at the 93rd Academy Awards as the submission for best international film, Telefilm Canada's executive director Christa Dickenson announced ...

Deepa Mehta‘s “Funny Boy” will represent Canada in the race for best international feature film at the 2021 Oscars. Based on the best-selling novel by Shyam Selvadurai, the film follows a young boy’s ...

Oscar nominated Canadian movie director Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s award-winning book Funny Boy will hit the screen next month – and is set to become one of this year’s most ...

Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy, which Canada submitted as its entry for the International Oscar race this year, has been rejected by AMPAS on the grounds it contains too much English dialogue. A ...

Canada comprises around 16,000 islands and encompasses nearly 9.09 million square kilometers. After Russia, it has the second largest surface area in the world. With deposits of gold, nickel, copper ...

Canadian Leaders Say Trump's Talk About Canada Becoming the 51st State Isn't Funny Anymore TORONTO (AP) — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s comments that Canada should become the 51st state are no ...