A former NFL player has won the Oscar for best animated short film eight years after predicting he would one day be nominated.
Matthew A Cherry wrote and directed Hair Love and won the award along with producer Karen Rupert Toliver.
Cherry is the second former athlete in three years to win the Oscar for best animated short.
On Sunday night one of his tweets from 2012 resurfaced in which he wrote “I’m gonna be nominated for an Oscar one day.
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