MANILA, Philippines – The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) has given the go-signal for the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) to proceed with the selection process for the next batch of National Artists amid the clamor to confer the National Artist Award, even posthumously, to Comedy King Dolphy.
The OSG said the NCCA is now cleared to proceed with the selection process since what is covered by a Supreme Court temporary restraining order is the conferment of the award in 2009 to film director and comics illustrator Carlo J. Caparas and several others.
Dolphy was nominated for the award in 2009 but failed to make it to the final list.
He died on Tuesday due to multiple organ failure.