Leila Djansi Questions The Credibility Of Ghana Movie Awards & The Organizers Say She Is Talking BS…

As usual, the 2013 Ghana Movie Awards nomination list has kick-started the annual controversy, with many industry persons who are missing from the nomination list pointing fingers at the organizers.

Also, some of those who have scored nominations think they belong to certain categories—and not where they’ve been placed, GhanaCelebrities.Com has learned.

Leading the complaints team, film-maker-Leila Djansi has taken to social media platform-Faceebook to question the credibility and sense of direction of the Ghana Movie Awards.

Putting across her rant in relation to her own movie-Northern Affairs, Leila said, she finds it difficult to understand the nomination of Joselyn Dumas in the ‘Best Actress In Supporting Role’ category, when Joselyn Dumas played the lead role in the movie.

Leila Djansi wrote;

“Ghana Movie Awards, what on earth? How can Joselyn Dumas be nominated in supporting actress, when the entire story of A Northern Affair was told from her point of view?”

She continued;

“Guys guys guys, if we are going to do something let us do it right. Please. We can’t continue like this. Get it together and get it right. GMA is a laudable enterprise but it needs to grow in the right direction”.

From Leila Djansi’s social media rant, it is obvious her problem is with the fact that as the Director of the movie, she is the best person to determine who is a lead or supporting if anything at all. And beyond that, the fact that a movie is all about someone places the person in the lead character category.

But when GhanaCelebrities.Com reached out to the organizers of the Ghana Movie Awards, they had an interesting and what seems like the right answer…

According to the organizers ‘like the Oscars and other big awards do, it is not the number of times a person appears in a movie or who the film-maker thinks is the lead that matters. But rather what the sitting committee members of GMA decide’.

Citing section 3 of Rule 6—Rules & Eligibility of the Oscars as a precedent, the organizers said “it is unfortunate that some people have failed to make the necessary enquiry before jumping into talking. Who is a lead or supporting in a movie is solely determined by the selected committee who ballot on this”.

We are told, the Ghana Movie Awards has similar rules like the Oscars in their Rules & Eligibility documents which we’ve already requested to see.

This is what section 3 of Rule 6, Rules & Eligibility of the Oscars states;

A performance by an actor or actress in any role shall be eligible for nomination either for the leading role or supporting role categories.  If, however, all the dialogue has been dubbed by another actor, the performance shall not be eligible for award consideration.  Singing that is dubbed will not affect the performer’s eligibility unless it constitutes the entire performance.  The determination as to whether a role is a leading or supporting role shall be made individually by members of the branch at the time of balloting.