Photos from 'Omotola at 20' dinner event in Abuja

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Obi Emelonye Apologizes To Genevieve & Omotola For Misquoted Statement By Bloggers “They are jobless” interview

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Omotola Ekeinde’s Hubby, Capt. Ekeinde is not much of a talker as he rarely talks about his personal life or marriage. Well, he came out of the closet recently in an interview with Enterainment Express and spoke about what it felt like being married to Omotola. Here are some excerpts from the interview;read more

The Telegraph Features Omotola Jolade Ekeinde As The Biggest Film Star You’ve Never Heard Of.Please read This Carefully.

OMOSEXY

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, aka 'Omosexy’, is the queen of Nollywood according to The Telegraph , She’s appeared in more than 300 films, pulls in 150 million viewers for her reality-television show and has been named one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

She scores a zero on the Hollywood Richter scale. She has never starred in a major motion picture. Her most recent film, Last Flight to Abuja, means nothing to devotees of Netflix and LoveFilm.
When she sat next to Steven Spielberg at a Time magazine dinner earlier this year he didn’t know her name. Yet Omotola Jalade Ekeinde was attending that dinner because, like him, she had been honoured in Time’s 2013 list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Alongside Kate Middleton, Michelle Obama and Beyoncé.The star of more than 300 films, Omotola – or “Omosexy”, as she is known to her legions of fans – is bigger across the African diaspora than Halle Berry.
Her reality-television show, Omotola: The Real Me, pulls in more viewers than Oprah’s and Tyra’s at their peak, combined, and she is the first African celebrity ever to amass more than one million Facebook “likes”.
When I meet her for the interview in a photographic studio in south-east London she is still recovering from getting mobbed by her Afro-Caribbean fan base in a nearby Tesco. “They practically had to shut down the store when people recognised me,” she says. “I actually got scared.”

Omotola is one of the biggest stars in Nollywood, the low-budget, high-output Nigerian film industry that churns out more English-language films than Hollywood or Bollywood (1,000-2,000 a year). Some have cinematic releases, but most are for the straight-to-video market.

When I watch her Stella photo-shoot from the sidelines it is immediately apparent that everything about her is BIG. Big body, big hair, big personality, big laugh: she comes across like Oprah’s sister.

She is here with her own film crew, who are recording for a future episode of her television show. Which means there is also a big, superstar delay – three hours – before our interview can start.

Many of her fans think her real name is “Omosexy”, she tells me, laughing, when we finally get to speak, but it was a nickname given to her by her husband, an airline pilot.

“He bought me a car back in 2009, and that was the plate number,” she recalls, speaking with kinetic, girlish excitement, rattling off sentences in fast, extended flurries.


Omotola in Last Flight to Abuja

“All my cars have special plate numbers, like Omotola 1.” When I ask how many cars she has, she laughs again, with embarrassment. “A few.” When she first saw her personalised licence plate she was horrified. “I thought, 'Oh no!’ It sounded cocky.

As if I was telling everybody, 'I’m sexy!’ Y’know-wha-I-mean?” She punctuates her sentences with this phrase, which she reels off as a single word.

The 35-year-old star has been acting since she was 16. Most recently she starred as Suzie, a passenger freshly spurned by her adulterous lover, in an aeroplane disaster movie, Last Flight to Abuja, which was the highest grossing film at the African box office last year.

Her breakthrough role came in 1995, in the Nollywood classic Mortal Inheritance, in which she played a sickle-cell patient fighting for her life. Since then she has established a staggering average of 16 films a year.

I put it to her that she must be the most prolific actress in the world. She laughs and shakes her head. “I am sure there are people who have beaten that record in Nigeria. Trust me.

It is easy to turn around with straight-to-video movies. It is the fashion to shoot until you drop, night and day. You have to remember that we are on very low budgets, so there is no time to wait.”

Nollywood began fewer than 20 years ago on the bustling streets of Lagos. Its pioneers were traders and bootleggers who started out selling copies of Hollywood films before graduating into producing their own titles as an inexpensive way to procure more content for a burgeoning market.

The traders finance the films (the average budget is £15,000-£30,000), then sell copies in bulk to local operators, who distribute them in markets, shops and street-corners for as little as £2 each.





Omotola and family



At the Time 100 Gala with Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis

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African Oscars-Omotola, Yvonne Nelson, Ramsey Nouah, P-Square Nominated Make Nomination List. – See full list

Favourite screen idols like Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, Yvonne Nelson, Uche Jombo-Rodriguez and even artistes like 2face Idibia and P-Square, have been nominated for the upcoming African Oscars.

The event will hold at the Warner Theatre in Washington DC on September 14 and is organised by Nollywood and African Film Critics, USA.

Here is the full list:



DIASPORA CATEGORIES

Best film in Diaspora

1. Le Silence Pure

2. Page 36

3. One Night in Vegas

4. Boys Cry

5. Unguarded

Best Drama Diaspora Film

1. Turning Point

2. Page 36

3. Boys Cry

4. Unguarded

5. One Night in Vegas

Best Screenplay Diaspora Film
1. Turning Point

2. Page 36

3. One Night in Vegas

4. Boys Cry

5. Unguarded

Best Cinematography Diaspora Film
1. Turning Point

2. Page 36

3. One Night in Vegas

4. Black Money

5. Le Silence Pure

Best Actor in leading role Diaspora Film

1. Igoni Archibong-Turning Point

2. Pascal Atuma- Secret Past

3. Egbi Perez-Page 36

4. Montel Swaray-Temperamental

5. John Dumelo – One Night in Vegas

Best Actress in leading role Diaspora
1. Yvonne Nelson –One Night in Vegas

2. Jackie Appiah-Turning Point

3. Uche Jombo- Unguarded

4. Marie Solo Peters– Le Silence Pure

5. Fatima Koroma – Nurses from Hell

Best Actor in Supporting role Diaspora Film
1. Ernie Hudson- Turning Point

2. Jimmy Jean Louis-One Night in Vegas

3. Ash Da Vito-African Connection

4. Van Vicker – One Night in Vegas

5. Michael Blackson- One Night in Vegas

Best Actress in supporting role Diaspora Film
1. Merlisa Langellier -Page 36

2. KD Hubert-Turning Point

3. Sarodj Bertin–One Night in Vegas

4. Gloria Washington- Nurses From Hell

5. Chisom Oz Lee – Unguarded

Best Director in Diaspora Film
1. Mitchel A Jones–Boys Cry

2. John Uche-One Night In Vegas

3. Robert Peters– Le Silence Pure

4. Don Okolo-Page 36

5. Bethels Aguomoh-Ungurded

NOLLYWOOD & AFRICAN PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS

Favorite Actor

Benedict Johnson
·2. Joseph Benjamin

·3. Majid Michel

·4. Emmanuel Mensah

· 5. Chamberlyne Okoro

Favorite Actress

·1. Ify Hollywood

· 2. Omotola Ekehinde

· 3. Fatima Jabbe

· 4. Monalisa Chinda

· 5. Queen Amina

Favorite Director

·1. Kunle Afolayan

· 2. Prinze Whyee

· 3. Ibrahim Ceesay

· 4. Pascal Amanfo

· 5. Kathryn Fasegha

Favorite Screenwriter

·1. Emem Isong

· 2. Andrew Campbell

· 3. Pascal Amanfo

Best Actor in leading Role

1. Majid Michel – The Price

2. Ramsey Nouah-Weekend Getaway

3. Adjetey Anang – The Hunters

4. Jim Iyke-Blood or Wine

5. Anurin Nwunembom-Ninah’s Diary

Best Actress in leading role

1. Beverly Naya-Alan Poza

2. Jackie Appiah-The Hunters

3. Iretiola Doyle– Torn

4. Mbufung Seikeh-Ninah’s Diary

5. Genevieve Nnaji-Weekend Getaway


Best Actor in Supporting role

1. Adjetey Annang-Letters to My Mother

2. Eddie Watson-Letters to My Mother

3. John Ijie-The Hands of Fate

4. Kofi Adjorlolo-The Price

5. Uti Nwachkwu-Weekend Getaway

Best Actress in supporting role

1. Kalsume Sinare-The Price

2. Patience Ozokwor – American Mama

3. Ini Edo-Weekend Getaway

4. Beverly Naya-Weekend Getaway

5. Monalisa Chinda-Weekend Getaway

Best Child Actor in a Film

1. Oley Saidykhan -The Hands of Fate

2. Elijah Kondeh-Boys Cry

3. Boakai Kimbo-Boys Cry

4. Ceareh Hamilton–Boys Cry

5. Marisha Nayee-Angel & the Mailman

Best Director in a Film
1. Charles Novia-Alan Poza

2. Pascal Amanfo- Letters to My Mother

3. Tom Robson-Mrs. Somebody

4. Desmond Elliot –Weekend Getaway

5. Victor Viyuoh-Ninah’s Dowry

Favorite Male Artiste Diaspora

· 1. Koby Maxwell

· 2. Sky J

· 3. Dacapo

Favorite Female Artiste Diaspora
· 1. Katumbella

· 2. Twissa

· 3. Soleil Diva

·4. Uba Unwudiwe

Favorite Artiste of the Year

1. Yemi Sax

· 2. 2Face Idibia

· 3. P Square

Favorite Song of the Year
·1. Flavour

·2. 2 Face Idibia

Favorite Video of the Year
·1. Timaya

·2. P Square

·3. Flavour

GENERAL CATEGORIES

Best Film

1. Alan Poza

2. Ninah’s Dowry

3. Weekend Getaway

4. One Night in Vegas

5. Le Silence Pure

Best Indigenous Film

1. The Blessed Curse

2. The Hands of Fate

3. Le Silence Pure

4. Deceit of the gods

Best Drama

1. Alan Poza

2. The Hunters

3. Le Silence Pure

4. Weekend Getaway

5. Ninah’s Dowry

Best Comedy

1. Alan Poza

2. Mrs. Somebody

3. American Mama

4. Wife for Ozobia

5. Unguarded

Best Docu-Drama

1. A Wish-Brest Cancer

2. The Hand of Fate- HIV

3. Boys Cry-Bullying

4. Ninah’s Dowry-Dowry

5. Le Silence Pure

BestTV/Online Series

1. Wife for Ozobio

2. African Connection

3. Adams Apples

Best Short Film / Trailer

1. Fetus

2. Unspoken

3. Hungry For You Honey

4. Five

Best Cinematography
1. A Wish

2. Alan Poza

3. Ninah’s Dowry

4. Weekend Getaway

5. One Night in Vegas

Best Screenplay

1. Letters to My Mother

2. Boys Cry

3. Alan Poza

4. Ninah’s Dowry

5. One Night in Vegas

Best Editing

1. Weekend Getaway

2. Alan Poza

3. Ninah’s Dowry

4. One Night in Vegas

5. Boys Cry

Best Sound

1. Page 36

2. Ninah’s Dowry

3. Turning Point

4. One Night in Vegas

5. Boys Cry

Best Original Score
1. America the True Dream-The Fetus

2. Crazy World-Somewhere in Baltimore

3. Zahara Loliwe-Pink Poison

4. False Engagement-False Engagement

5. Pariwo-Mind of the Enemy

Best Visual Effects

1. The Blessed Curse

2. One Night in Vegas

3. The Hunters

4. Temperamental

5. The Fetus

Best Costume

1. The Price

2. Unguarded

3. Page 36

4. African Connection

5. Le Silence Pure

Best Makeup
1. The Blessed Curse

2. The Fetus

3. Temperamental

4. Ninah’s Dowry

5. The Price

Fabulously Spotted -Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde At 2013 TIME 100 Gala In New York.

Nollywood star actress and singer Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde was in New York last night April 23 for the 2013 Time 100 Gala which she celebrated as 1 of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world.
As one of the few Africans on the list it was a big night for the Nigerian movie star.
She wore a stunning custom made sculpture black beaded dress by Iconic Invanity.
A designer Omotola has worn in past.
Her dress features a slash cap sleeve, and black sequinned trim on the bodice.
She styled her hair in a curled pin-up side bun, and wore a statement black jade ring which flow seamlessly with her silver earrings and black dress.

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