The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has disqualified Canada's entry for best international feature Oscar consideration, Deepa Mehta's Funny Boy, for having too much dialogue in English. By ...

Canada has picked Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy, an adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s coming-of-age novel of the same name, to represent the country in the 2021 Oscar race in the international feature ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: While Americans weep over the lack of comedy competitions (#RIP Last Comic Standing; where have you gone, Bring The Funny?), Canada continues to get the last laugh. And ...

America, it's finally time for us to stop making fun of Canada. What did our northern neighbors ever do to us to deserve this perpetual ridicule? Sure, they have funny accents and apologize too much, ...

Deepa Mehta‘s “Funny Boy” will represent Canada in the race for best international feature film at the 2021 Oscars. Based on the best-selling novel by Shyam Selvadurai, the film follows a young boy’s ...

Overstuffed but absorbing, Deepa Mehta's adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai's novel takes its young Sri Lankan protagonist through several circles of turmoil as civil war brews in the background. “Don’t ...

Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy, which Canada submitted as its entry for the International Oscar race this year, has been rejected by AMPAS on the grounds it contains too much English dialogue. A ...