Oscar nod for Uganda's own Daniel Kaluuya

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He will have to beat off strong competition from Denzel Washington, Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman and Timothee Chalamet if he is to win the Award for Best Actor.

He began his career as a teenager in improvisational theatre. He subsequently appeared in the first two seasons of the British television series Skins, which he also co-wrote. Playing the lead role in Sucker Punch at the Royal Court Theatre in London, Kaluuya won rave reviews for his performance and he won both the Evening Standard Award and Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer. He gained further acclaim for his performance in the Black Mirror episode “Fifteen Million Merits”, and played Tealeaf in the BBC dark comedy series Psychoville, and Mac in the BBC Three horror drama The Fades. Kaluuya appeared as Agent Tucker in the 2011 film Johnny English Reborn, alongside Rowan Atkinson, and in 2013, he appeared in the film Kick-Ass 2. In 2015, he starred alongside Emily Blunt in the Denis Villeneuve film Sicario. In 2018, he will appear as W’Kabi in the Marvel Studios film Black Panther.

Oscar nod for Uganda's own Daniel Kaluuya

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