Lupita Nyong’o Nominated For Yet Another Award -This Time The British Equivalent Of The Oscars

Lupita Nyong’o is going places. I love seeing talent get appreciated and I love it more when it’s a young Kenyan getting recognized by the world. Game set and match Kenyan tinsel town! You shouldn’t always go for beauty over talent when it comes to actors.

And Lupita is just going from strength to strength and she has now been nominated for yet another award; EE Bafta Rising Star award.

Actress Lupita Nyong’o, who is in the hotly-tipped film 12 Years A Slave, is among five young actors nominated for this year’s EE Bafta Rising Star award.

She is joined by Blue is the Warmest Colour actress Lea Seydoux and Sunshine on Leith star George MacKay.

Will Poulter from We’re the Millers and Narnia film The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Kill Your Darlings actor Dane DeHaan complete the list.

The winner is revealed at the Baftas which take place on Sunday 16 February.

The Bafta Rising Star nominees were selected by a group including actress Gemma Arterton, Pippa Harris, the deputy chair of Bafta’s film committee and film critic Mark Kermode.

The awards are not strictly for newcomers and can go to actors who already have a track record of several films.

EE RISING STAR NOMINEES

    Dane DeHaan
    George MacKay
    Lupita Nyong’o
    Will Poulter
    Lea Seydoux

Source: BBC News