Lupita gets MTV Movie Awards nomination

Kenyan actress, Lupita Nyong’o, who became the first black African to win an Oscar, has been nominated for another international laurel – the 2014 MTV Movie Awards.

The 31-year-old thespian, who won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in 12 Years a Slave, the Academy’s Best Picture of 2013, will be engaged in an epic showdown, with cast of critically-acclaimed films, such as The Wolf of Wall Street, American Hustle, We’re the Millers, This Is The End, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and more.

Lupita, whose win at the Oscars also made her the second black actor who came tops in a debut performance, was first featured as a professional screen actor, on the MTV Base HIV & AIDS awareness drama, Shuga.

The actress, by this new nomination, will be going up against A-listers and Hollywood veterans such as Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, Sandra Bullock and Jennifer Anniston in the MTV’s Best Female Performance diadem.

Organisers said fans can partake by casting votes for their favorite nominees, at www.MovieAwards.MTV.com. The site which was opened for voting last Thursday, has up till April 12, before closing.