Riz Ahmed’s family weren't bothered by his first-ever Oscar nomination. Thanks to his role in Sound of Metal, the British-Pakistani actor is nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the upcoming 2021 Academy Awards alongside the likes of the late Chadwick Boseman, Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, and Steven Yeun.
Despite his awe at landing an Oscar nod, and becoming the first Muslim Best Actor nominee in the prestigious prizegiving's history, Ahmed confessed that some of his family members were nonplussed by his big news. "My cousin Adnan legit didn't know what the Oscars were. (He said) 'Why all the gas?
I won best client engagement award for the financial quarter,'" he wrote on Twitter, according to Variety. And another of his cousins.
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