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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Overstuffed but absorbing, Deepa Mehta's adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai's novel takes its young Sri Lankan protagonist through several circles of turmoil as civil war brews in the background. “Don’t ...

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 ...