Notable Nigerians - Meet Nigerian novelist and playwright Biyi Bandele

Nigerian novelist and playwright, Biyi Bamidele

Biyi Bandele-Thomas, 47 is a Nigerian novelist and playwright generally known as Biyi Bandele. He was born in Nigeria and attended the University of Ife, now known as the Obafemi Awiolowo University before coming to England in 1990.
Bandele is one of the most versatile and prolific of the U.K.-based Nigerian writers, having turned his hand to theater, journalism, television, film, and radio, as well as the fiction with which he made his name. Acclaimed as both a prolific playwright and a versatile novelist, his 1997 adaptation of fellow Nigerian Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart for the British stage confirmed his place as an important voice on the post-colonial stage.

He wrote the screenplay for Half a Yellow Moon, a novel by Chimamanda Adichie which will be released this summer worldwide. He currently resides in London.

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Oscars 2014: Winners List

Here is the full list of winners at this year’s Academy Awards, updated live as they’re announced at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood tonight (March 2). Keep checking back to find out who wins what!
Best Picture
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Director
Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity) – WINNER!
David O Russell (American Hustle)
Alexander Payne (Nebraska)
Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)
Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Best Actor
Christian Bale (American Hustle)
Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) – WINNER!

Best Actress
Amy Adams (American Hustle)
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) - WINNER!
Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
Judi Dench (Philomena)
Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

Best Supporting Actor
Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) – WINNER!

Best Supporting Actress
Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave) – WINNER!
Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
June Squibb (Nebraska)

Adapted Screenplay
Before Midnight
Captain Phillips
Philomena
12 Years A Slave – WINNER!
The Wolf of Wall Street

Original Screenplay
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Dallas Buyers Club
Her – WINNER!
Nebraska

Animated Feature
Frozen – WINNER!
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
The Wind Rises

Best Foreign Language Film
The Broken Circle Breakdown
The Great Beauty – WINNER!
The Hunt
The Missing Picture
Omar

Production Design
American Hustle
Gravity
The Great Gatsby – WINNER!
Her
12 Years A Slave

Cinematography
The Grandmaster
Gravity – WINNER!
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Prisoners

Costume Design
American Hustle
The Grandmaster
The Great Gatsby – WINNER!
The Invisible Woman
12 Years a Slave

Documentary Feature
The Act of Killing
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
20 Feet From Stardom – WINNER!

Documentary Short
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life – WINNER!
CaveDigger
Facing Fear
Karama Has No Walls
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

Editing
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity – WINNER!
12 Years a Slave

Make-up and Hairstyling
Dallas Buyers Club – WINNER!
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
The Lone Ranger 

Original Score
The Book Thief
Gravity – WINNER!
Her
Philomena
Saving Mr. Banks

Original Song
“Alone Yet Not Alone” (Alone Yet Not Alone)
“Happy” (Despicable Me 2)
“Let It Go” (Frozen) – WINNER!
“The Moon Song” (Her)
“Ordinary Love” (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)

Sound Editing
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity – WINNER!
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Lone Survivor

Sound Mixing
Captain Phillips
Gravity – WINNER!
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor

Visual Effects
Gravity – WINNER!
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3

The Lone Ranger
Star Trek Into Darkness

Animated Short
Mr. Hublot – WINNER!
Feral
Get a Horse!
Possessions
Room on the Broom

Live Action Short
Helium – WINNER!
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me)
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything)
Helium
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?
The Voorman Problem

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Actor Idris Elba in asthma drama on way to 'Mandela' Movie

British actor, Idris Elba attended the premier of the Nelson Mandela biopic, "Long Walk to Freedom" in Johannesburg recently. However, on his flight to the event in south Africa, it was reported by MSN that he suffered an asthma attack.
Asthma attacks can be quite dangerous and 1:5 people die from the illness. Inhalers have been used to control and prevent attacks.

NOLLYWOOD PREMIER: Shattered Hearts in Pictures

LONDON, UK - The Shattered Hearts Movie premier took place on Friday 7 September at the Odeon IMAX Cinema in Greenwich and what a turnout! Beautifully dressed Nollywood stars, supporting actors, friends and well wishers graced the red carpet to usher in the latest

BATMAN shooting: 12 shot dead, 50 injured, 3 month old critically injured

 

 A video footage of the shooting in a cinema hall in Dever, USA

DENVER, USA - 12 people have been killed and 50 wounded in a shooting at a midnight cinema showing of the new Batman film near Denver, Colorado.

Witnesses said a man wearing a gas mask opened fire after tossing a tear gas canister in the auditorium as movie-goers watched The Dark Knight Rises.

A 24-year-old local man was arrested in a car park nearby in possession of a rifle, handgun and knife.