Oscar Nominations are announced

Date: 25 Jan 2005
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

The first Oscar nomination for a South African film Yesterday in the Best Foreign Language category, was announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president, Frank Pierson, and Oscar-winning actor and Academy member, Adrien Brody, in Los Angeles. Yesterday, the first feature-length film in the Zulu language, is about a woman living in the rural area who discovered that she was HIV positive.

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Oscar Nominations are announced. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013636

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