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Oscar Nominations 2020: Here’s the complete list
The Academy Awards will air live Feb. 9 on ABC. Here is the full list of 2020 Oscar nominations!
Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali to star in sci-fi film ‘Sovereign’
Los Angeles: Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali has bagged the role in the science-fiction movie “Sovereign”. Marc Munden will direct the project from a screenplay by “A Quiet Place” writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, reports variety.com. Entertainment One will co-produce the film with 21 Laps Entertainment’s Shawn Levy, Dan Levine[Read More…]
Green Book Scores Big for Co-Producer Alibaba Pictures at Oscars
Bangalore: Alibaba Pictures Group Limited (“Alibaba Pictures”, HKSE: 1060, SGX: 91S) said Monday that it is delighted that Green Book, a film it jointly produced, won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 91st Academy Awards (The Oscars), held in Los[Read More…]
Oscars 2019 winner Olivia Colman finds her roots in Bihar’s Kishanganj
A few months back, Olivia travelled to India to find her hidden roots that were laid in Bihar’s Kishanganj.
Periods don’t stop us from achieving anything: Monga after Oscar win
Los Angeles: Indian film producer Guneet Monga is elated about winning an Oscar for her co-production “Period. End of Sentence”, which highlights the stigma around menstruation. She says the accolade adds more power to her mission to “change the world”. “Period. End of Sentence”, an India-set film on the taboos[Read More…]
Olivia Colman wins her first Oscar
Los Angeles: “The Favourite” star Olivia Colman was teary-eyed as she was announced the winner of the Best Actress in a Leading Role category at the 91st Academy Awards, marking her first Oscar. “It’s genuinely quite stressful… This is hilarious. I got an Oscar,” Colman said in a wobbled way[Read More…]
Rami Malek named Best Actor at Oscars 2019
Los Angeles: Actor Rami Malek received an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading role at the 91st Academy Awards ceremony for portraying the life of late Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody” with conviction. “Bohemian Rhapsody”, which was released in India by Fox Star Studios, is a biopic on Mercury[Read More…]
Spike Lee makes political comment as ‘BlacKkKlansman’ wins Oscar
Los Angeles: Filmmaker Spike Lee was elated when “BlacKkKlansman” was announced as the Oscar winner for Adapted Screenplay at the 91st Academy Awards. He urged people to be “on the right side of history”. Lee paced towards the stage and hugged presenter Samuel L. Jackson in what was an effusive[Read More…]
India-set film around menstruation wins an Oscar
Los Angeles: “Period. End of Sentence”, an India-set film on the taboos around menstruation and featuring the real ‘Pad Man’, picked up an Oscar in Documentary Short Subject category at the 91st Academy Awards ceremony. The film, backed by In dian producer Guneet Monga’s Sikhya Entertainment, is about women in India[Read More…]
Mahershala Ali wins Oscar for ‘Green Book’
Los Angeles: Actor Mahershala Ali picked up an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Don Shirley in “Green Book” at the 91st Academy Awards. Ali was competing with Adam Driver (“BlacKkKlansman”), Sam Elliott (“A Star Is Born”), Richard E. Grant (“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”) and Sam[Read More…]
‘Roma’ wins Best Foreign Language, Cinematography
Los Angeles: Black-and-white drama “Roma” scooped up the Best Foreign Language Film and the Cinematography honours at the Academy Awards here on Sunday, marking multiple firsts for director Alfonso Cuaron and his home country Mexico. According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, “Roma” was the ninth film[Read More…]
Ruth E. Carter makes history with Oscar win
Los Angeles: Ruth E. Carter won Best Costume Design trophy at the 91st Academy Awards for her work on superhero film “Black Panther”, becoming the first black woman in history to win in the category. According to ew.com, Carter is the first African-American woman to take home an Oscar in[Read More…]
Queen gives electrifying start to Oscars 2019
Los Angeles: Rock band Queen with Adam Lambert opened the 91st Academy Awards here with “We will rock you”, which was prominently featured in ace “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Since the ceremony was host-less, the band injected some energy into the crowd as they started with “We will rock you” and then[Read More…]
Regina King wins her first Oscar
Los Angeles: Regina King won her first ever Oscar, taking home the Best Supporting Actress trophy for her role in “If Beale Street Could Talk”. According to CNN, King is the third black actress to win both an Oscar and a Primetime Emmy, joining Halle Berry and Viola Davis. Directed[Read More…]
Nick Cannon defends Kevin Hart
Los Angeles: Actor-rapper Nick Cannon rose to comedian Kevin Hart’s defence by calling out female comedians who had used anti-gay slurs on their own handles. This comes after Hart stepped down from his appointment as Oscar host following the backlash over past homophobic tweets. Without mentioning Hart’s name in any[Read More…]
Oldman, McDormand win best actors at 90th Oscars
Los Angeles: Gary Oldman, for essaying former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in “Darkest Hour”, and Frances McDormand for her role as a grieving mother in “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri”, won the best actor and best actress in a leading role categories at the 90th Academy Awards here. McDormand,[Read More…]
Political satire ‘Newton’ is India’s official entry to Oscars 2018
Actor Rajkummar Rao starrer, Newton has been selected as Indian’s official entry to the Oscars. “Very happy to share this news that #NEWTON is India’s official entry to the #OSCARS this year. Congratulations team,” Rajkummar said. “’Newton’ has been selected as India’s official entry to the Oscars. It was unanimously[Read More…]
Oscars 2017: ‘Moonlight’ wins ‘Best Picture’; here’s the complete winners’ list
Hollywood celebrated its biggest night – the 89th Academy Awards on Sunday. The award ceremony was held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. While Casey Affleck bagged the Best Actor Award for ‘Manchester By The Sea’, Emma Stone walked away with the Best Actress Award for her act in[Read More…]
Oscars long list: Sushant Singh Rajput’s ‘MS Dhoni’ qualifies
Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s biopic on Indian Cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni, called MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan-starrer Sarbjit have made it to the long list of 336 feature films eligible for the Oscars. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the list of[Read More…]
Proud moment: ‘Visaranai’ is India’s official entry to Oscars 2017
National Award-winning Tamil film Visaranai is India’s official entry in the Foreign Language Film category at the Oscars next year. “Visaranai was selected out of the 29 films that were in the race,” Film Federation of India secretary general Supran Sen said. Visaranai, produced by Dhanush’s Wunderbar Productions, and based[Read More…]