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Golden Globes 2020: Burial of Kojo becomes 1st ever Ghanaian movie to make entry

Monday, November 11, 2019 at 2:29 PM by Khadijah Thabit

- The Burial of Kojo, a Ghanaian movie directed by Samuel Bazawule, is in the run for a nomination at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards

- This is the first time any Ghanaian movie has been considered for a nomination in the Golden

- Over 90 other movies also being considered in the same Best Foreign Film category

The Burial of Kojo has made history by becoming the first movie from Ghana to ever be considered for a Golden Globe Awards nomination.

The movie directed by Samuel “Blitz” Bazawule being considered by for nomination in the Best Foreign Film category.

Bazawule who made his debut as a director with The Burial of Kojo took to social media to announce the special feat

"WHAAAAAAT!!!! The Burial of Kojo is up for a Golden Globe Nomination. First-ever for Ghana. Just Wow!!!” he wrote while sharing a photo of the list of Golden Globe’s “Best Foreign Film” contender on Twitter.

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Blitz the Ambassador, as Bazawuke prefers to be called, also pointed about out that apart from the Golden Globes entry, The Burial of Kojo is one of the highly-rated movies of 2019 with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

In all, 95 films from 65 different countries are being considered for nomination in the Golden Globe's Best Foreign Film category.

Final nominees are expected to be announced on December 9, 2019.

Interestingly, The Burial of Kojo recently won two awards at the 2019 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA 2019).

Child actress Cynthia Dankwa won the Best Young/Promising Actor in Africa for her role as Esi in the movie while Bazawule who won Director-First Feature Film for the same movie.

Meanwhile, Trevor Noah is set to make a movie about an eight-year-old Nigerian chess genius who aced the 2019 New York chess championship.

The movie will be fleshing out the narrative of the Adewumi family, who left Nigeria to seek asylum in the US, and how their child, Tani, became a champion in the game just after he had been playing chess for two years.