11 Year Old Olutunji Ebun-Cole Attends the Oscars
Posted on Monday, February 23rd, 2009 at 8:14 PM
By Louisa Olubukola Kinoshi
While India and the rest of the world raves about the cute kids in the Oscar winning Best Picture Slumdog Millionaire, Africa can also revel at our own little star. 11 year old Tunji attended yesterday’s Oscars ceremony yesterday due to his role in the Oscar nominated live action short film, “New Boy.”
This 11-minute flick is based on Roddy Doyle’s 2005 short story about an African immigrant boy who struggles to fit in socially over the course of his first day at an Irish school. Even though the film did not win, Tunji still enjoyed attending the Oscars. In an interview wth cBBC he says, “I got to meet my hero Daniel Craig and Queen Latifah said I had beautiful skin!” Tunji really makes me feel like an agbaya; in addition to his attendance at the Oscars, he also appeared in Casino Royale as Cola Kid.
View a clip of New Boy here!
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Update: According to the BBC, Tunji is actually of Sierra Leonean & Zambian origin. We are still proud of him 
Tags: Louisa Kinoshi, New Boy, Nigerian actors, Olutunji Ebun-Cole, Oscars
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awwww!proud of him
I watched the clip and I must say it was a cute story!
awww! really cute
me love…
am so proud of him , gush and i heard his mom is real cool. she;s a science teacher
Yei for him!!!! I watched the Oscars and was like “who’s that 9ja looking boy?” LOL!
didot watch that part of him. was tired had to go and sleep will go and check it out. so who said nigerians can not go places?
just watched it and i totally enjoyed it
yay proud of him…go team TUNJI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
go team naija….
well done…we are proud of you.. although we dont show it.. deep down we kare!!!
He’s so adorable. I will like to see the film, where can I find it. Every African immigrant can relate to it.
what’s an agbaya?
I am sorry to ruin everyones proud moment, but there is a little bit of mis information within this article. Although his name (which is actually Olutunji) is from Nigeria, he infact is not. He is of Zambian, Sierra Leonian and Ghanaian decent. I know this as i am his brother.
where ever he’s from as far as he’s of african decent,i’m proud of him and i hope he’s proud of himself too cos what he’s achieved in eleven years some people will never achieve in a life time so thumbs up boy!
he is so nice.I love him.:)
the boy is actually of naigerian and zambian origin! representing my young!
that film was brillint soo proud of him i remember when we used to sit next to eachover in class now look at him!