First Oscar nomination shines spotlight on Bhutan's fledgling cinema | outstanding | Spanish edition

Director Pawo Choyning is yet to get over his amazement at the astonishing success of his debut film “Lunana: A Yak in Classroom” that offers a glimpse into life at a far-flung Bhutanese village and has become the first movie from the Himalayan country to be nominated for the Academy Awards.

“We are a very, very small film that was made in the world’s most remote classroom. We had so many logistical challenges that we almost felt like we wouldn’t be able to complete this film,” the 38-year-old director, whose film is competing in the Best International Feature category, told EFE.

“Being nominated for the Oscars is the last thing we expected. But, you know, magical things happen.”

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Sebastián Yatra celebrates the nomination of 'Dos Oruguitas' at the Oscars 2022

Total happiness! The singer Sebastián Yatra was quite excited to learn that the song ‘Dos Oruguitas’ from ‘Encanto’, which he sings, is nominated for the 2022 Oscars.

This Tuesday, February 8, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the list of nominees for the 2022 Oscars. The animated film ‘Encanto’ managed to be present in three categories: ‘Best Animated Feature Film’, ‘Best Original Soundtrack’ and ‘Best Original Song’ for ‘Dos Oruguitas’.

After learning the news, Sebastián Yatra jumped and danced with the emotion of knowing that the single to which he gave the voice has the possibility of winning such an important award.

Sebastián Yatra’s exciting reaction to learning that ‘Dos Oruguitas’ is nominated for the 2022 Oscars

Yatra shared a video on her official Instagram profile, where she is on her knees on a piece of furniture in her house, carefully observing the 2022 Oscar nominations. While she is folding her hands and making efforts so that ‘Dos Oruguitas’ was nominated for best song , the Colombian artist heard the name of the song and began to celebrate euphorically.

“Colombia we are nominated for an Oscar!” Sebastián wrote in the description of the publication.

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Some well-known personalities such as Itziar Castro, Manolo Caro, J Balvin, Lorena Meritano, among others, congratulated Sebastián on the nomination, and, of course, his millions of fans celebrated the exciting news with him.

‘Two Little Caterpillars’ was written by Lin-Manuel Miranda

The American composer, lyricist, actor, singer, playwright and producer is the head behind the song of ‘Encanto’. ‘Dos Oruguitas’ tells the story of grandmother ‘Alma’ and tells how she survived after the loss of her husband, ‘Pedro’.

The single by Lin-Manuel and performed by Sebastián Yatra competes with ‘Be Alive’ (Beyoncé and Darius Scott – ‘The Williams Method’), ‘Down to Joy’ (Van Morrison – ‘Belfast’), ‘No Time to Die’ (Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell – ‘No Time to Die’) and ‘Somehow You Do’ (Diane Warren – ‘Four Good Days’).

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