The film captures the spunky print-to-digital journey of Dalit women-run newspaper Khabar Lahariya
For India, the big disappointment was that the Suriya-starrer 'Jai Bhim', which was a hot favourite for a nomination nod, did not make the cut
Jane Campion's gothic western The Power of the Dog led nominations to the 94th Academy Awards, where streaming services more than ever before swept over Hollywood's top honours
Indian fans were deeply disappointed as earlier in the day, a tweet by a popular US scribe had kindled hopes of 'Jai Bhim' making the cut
The Netflix Inc. movie about 'Citizen Kane' writer Herman Mankiewicz received 10 nominations, including best picture, best director for David Fincher and best actor for star Gary Oldman
Writer-director Ramin Bahrani has been nominated in the Best Adapted Screenplay category
Ellen Page, the Oscar-nominated star of films such as "Juno" and "Inception", has come out as a transgender.
The film was unanimously chosen from 27 entries across Hindi, Odiya, Marathi and other languages
Black actors and actresses were largely overlooked, with the British-Nigerian actress Cynthia Erivo ("Harriet") as the sole nominee
The Academy may imagine it is natural for Americans and British to own the English language. Eventually, however, demography and globalization will render that position untenable
"Black Panther", the Marvel blockbuster, became the first superhero film to be nominated in the best picture category