Oscar season has a way of turning otherwise reasonable people into amateur statisticians, astrologists, and armchair Hollywood prognosticators. We scrutinise guild awards like tea leaves, debate anonymous ballots as if decoding some ancient script, and pore over every campaign stop, hunting for the moment a frontrunner might slip or, just as thrillingly, the instant an…
Bhanu Athaiya; Satyajit Ray, AR Rahman, MM Keeravaani and Chandrabose, with their Academy Award trophies | Photo Credit: Oscars/YouTube, REUTERS/Mike Blake, JORDAN STRAUSS/AP The 97th Academy Awards, cinemaâs glitziest night, are set to take place on Monday (March 3) at the Dolby Theatre in LA, Hollywood. Itâs not a particularly robust year for India: Laapataa…
Five days before the Academy Awards, nearly every nominee gathered for a cocktail reception, dinner and class picture shoot that served as an Oscars orientation. The event Tuesday night at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was a stand-in for the annual Oscars luncheon usually held about a month earlier but scrubbed because of the…
Ralph Fiennes in a still from âConclaveâ | Photo Credit: Focus Features Oscar voting has long been shrouded in mystery, but anonymous ballots sometimes reveal surprisingâand bafflingâdecision-making. A recent Variety report uncovered a striking example: two Academy voters admitted they didnât select Ralph Fiennes for Best Actor in Conclave because they believed he had âalready…
The 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards are getting underway Sunday in what should offer the final clue in an unusually unpredictable Oscar race. The other major awards â including the BAFTAs, the Producers Guild Awards, the Directors Guild Awards and the Golden Globes â have all had their say. But actors make up the largest…
Sean Baker poses with the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film award for âAnoraâ alongside Christopher Nolan at the 77th Annual DGA (Directors Guild of America) Awards in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on February 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Anora was named the best film of the year by Hollywoodâs directors and producers…
Phew. The annual ritual of the Oscar nominations announcement has finally passed. The awards discourse on the internet often feels like itâs hosting a year-long film festival of its own, and the Academy Award nominations are when prognosticators start to spiral. For the subsequent bouts of elation, outrage, and armchair punditry that have since plagued…
The 2025 Oscar nominations are here, and though Payal Kapdiaâs All We Imagine as Light and Sandhya Suriâs Santosh, didnât manage to bag a nomination for India, the Priyanka Chopra and Guneet Monga-produced live-action short, Anuja, secured us our only nod this year. This yearâs race is shaping up to be one of the most…
Stills from âA Real Painâ, âAnoraâ and âChallengersâ The Writers Guild of America has unveiled the much-anticipated nominations for the 2025 Writers Guild Awards. In the Original Screenplay category, nominees include A Real Pain, Anora, Challengers, Civil War, and My Old Ass. Meanwhile, the Adapted Screenplay contenders feature A Complete Unknown, Dune: Part Two, Hit…
In the spring of 2022, S.S. Rajamouliâs historical action drama RRR was a huge hit in India and in the global Indian diaspora market when two American distributors floated the idea of releasing it once again â to reach an audience not usually drawn to Indian films. With great word of mouth and reviews, the film pulled more…
