Source: Supplied My Octopus Teacher’, which has won more than 20 international awards, including Best Documentary at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) and Producers Guild of America Awards, became the first nature documentary to win an Academy Award since The Cove in 2010.
This is South Africa s third Oscar win since 2003 and 2005. In 2003, Charlize Theron from Benoni won an Oscar for Best Actress for the film Monster , the first South African actress to ever win an Oscar.
In 2005, the film Tsoti won Best Foreign Language Film. It was the first non-French-language African film to win in this category.
And in 2021, South Africa once again made history after My Octopus Teacher won an Oscar for Best Documentary.