Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, is among the 928 artistes and executives to invited to join the voting process of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science popularly known as the Oscars.
The Oscars are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, to recognise excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy’s voting membership.
Alongside Omotola, Nigerian filmmaker Femi Odugbemi has been invited into the voting membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Two other Nigerians invited are Wunmi Mosaku and Ngozi Onwurah.
Omotola began her acting career in the 1995 movie Venom of Justice, directed by Reginald Ebere. She was given the lead role in the movie, which set the stage for a career in the Nollywood film industry.
She got her first big role in the critically acclaimed film Mortal Inheritance (1995). In the movie, she played a sickle-cell patient who fights for her life despite the odds of survival. Omotola’s character overcame the disease and had a baby.
Since then, she has starred in several blockbuster movies, including Games Women Play, Blood Sisters, All My Life, Last Wedding, My Story, The Woman in Me and a host of others.
