Los Angeles and Lagos Internationally renowned actor
JIMMY JEAN-LOUIS has earned a Best Actor Nomination for his outstanding performance as “Francis” in Apolline Traoré’s film
DESRANCES at the forthcoming
Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), the African continent’s equivalent to the Oscars. He is also a Producer on the film, which has earned a total of 10 nominations. The AMAA ceremony will take place live in Lagos on Sunday, December 20th, 2020.
Jean-Louis is on the fast-track, breaking the mold internationally as both an Actor and Producer. He can currently be seen in
Kunle Afolayan‘s Netflix Original film
CITATION, which ranked as the number 1 film in Nigeria and top 6 globally on the streaming platform this month. He will next appear in a starring role for the upcoming indie feature film
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this year or five years from last year or five years from now. so as long as i m evolving as long as i m on the approach, yeah. and tonight, you are being honored by your peers, but thursday morning when you got that call and you saw that you were being honored by the academy with the best actor nomination, you were like, all right, all right, all right. i didn t say that. no. i had a nice moment with myself and a hug and kiss and high five from my wife. thank you. and you look gorgeous, and what are you wearing? it is a vintage donna. and you, sir? dolce gabbana. thank you, guys, and we will be right back with the more of the actor s red carpet, and we have to make sure that the lady gets down the stairs. and we will be back with more. stay with us. hey, the new guy is loaded with protein!
the king s speech, so long as he outfriends jesse eisenberg and surprise nominee john hawks for winter s bone. you can hear it all over the city? john who? oh, yeah, he was great in winter s bone. reporter: then the surprising snubs. julianne moore, mark wahlberg in the fighter and ryan gosling in blue valentine. and don t rule out an oscar for oscar host james franco. his role as a hiker faced with a horrible choice in the movie 127 hours has earned him a best actor nomination. vinita, rob. two other snubs too, mila kunis no supporting nod for black swan. . fascinating that they have ten best pick nominees. when you look at that list, it s a practice that they started last year. i didn t remember it from last year. it s a really long list. they say you can immediately tell which are the real top five but to hear ten is a lot. the king s speech has a lot of momentum. n n n n n n n n n n