Exciting, massive and unbelievable!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is how 11-year-old child actor from Stellenbosch, Caleb Payne, describes his nomination for Leading Youth Artist in a Feature Film at The Youth Artist Academy, also known as the Youth Oscars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The awards will take place in Hollywood Los Angeles on 2 October this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe nomination was for his performance in Good Life<\/span>, a small independent South African movie, filmed in Cape Town in hard lock- down 2020,\u201d Caleb\u2019s father Stanford said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPrevious nominees and winners include Scarlett Johansson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Caleb\u2019s nomination is the first South African nomination for acting. The only South African presence at the awards in the last 43 years has been in 2020 when Trevor Noah received a honouree award for Journalistic Excellence and The Gods Must Be Crazy<\/span> was given a merit award in 1984 for Best Foreign Film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is a massive step for me. I didn\u2019t think a small movie from South Africa would be recognised in this way. We shot the movie in the heart of lockdown, during the cold winter, in 2020. 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