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2025 Oscars shortlist revealed: Laapataa Ladies out, Emilia Perez shines

The 2025 Oscars shortlist is out, with Emilia Perex and Santosh leading in Best International Feature, while India's Laapataa Ladies is excluded

India's 'Laapataa Ladies' out of Oscar race, fails to make it to shortlist

The Hindi film, directed by Kiran Rao, is not part of the shortlist of 15 features that will be vying for a spot in the final five, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) announced

'Laapataa Ladies' at the Oscars: A closer look at India's selection process

The Film Federation of India (FFI) announced 'Laapataa Ladies' as the chosen entry from a competitive pool of 29 films

India picks Laapataa Ladies for Oscars 2025: Check out the cast, plot & more

Kiran Rao's 'Laapataa Ladies' makes the cut as India's Oscars 2025 entry

Originally released on Netflix, Kiran Rao's 'Laapataa Ladies' has resonated strongly with fans and critics alike

Roger Corman, Hollywood mentor, Oscar-winning 'King of the Bs', dies at 98

Roger Corman, the Oscar-winning King of the Bs who helped turn out such low-budget classics as Little Shop of Horrors and Attack of the Crab Monsters and gave many of Hollywood's most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98. Corman died on Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, California, his daughter Catherine Corman said on Saturday in a statement. He was generous, open-hearted and kind to all those who knew him, the statement said. When asked how he would like to be remembered, he said, I was a filmmaker, just that.' Starting in 1955, Corman helped create hundreds of films as a producer and director, among them Black Scorpion, Bucket of Blood, and Bloody Mama. A remarkable judge of talent, he hired such aspiring filmmakers as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, James Cameron and Martin Scorsese. In 2009, Corman received an honorary Academy Award. There are many constraints connected with working on a low budget, but at the same time there are certain ...

Oppenheimer, flawed genius

Oppenheimer is based on a Pulitzer-winning biography by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin called American Prometheus

Oscars 2024 draws largest TV audience since 2020 with 19.5 million viewers

Oscar viewership has withered in recent years due to cord cutting and a focus at the ceremony on small, art-house films. Last year's show, in which Everything Everywhere All at Once won best picture

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer dominates 2024 Oscars; full list here

The 96th Academy Awards took place in Los Angeles, with Oppenheimer and Poor Things dominating the evening. Here is the full list of Oscar 2024 winners

Oscars 2024: Top 5 best-dressed celebrity couples at 96th Academy Awards

A few prominent celebrities appeared on the 96th Academy Awards red carpet wearing little red pins. The pins represent a call for a ceasefire in the continuing Israel-Hamas war

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Oscars 2024: Here's complete list of winners at the 96th Academy Awards

The 96th Academy Awards occurred at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. On March 11, the prestigious award show started at 4:30 AM (India time). For the fourth time, Jimmy Kimmel hosted the show

Oscars 2024: Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer bags seven Academy Awards

Cillian Murphy-starrer Oppenheimer bagged seven awards at the 96th Academy Awards that were held on March 11, 2024

Oscars 2024: 'Oppenheimer' wins best picture, Emma Stone takes best actress

Oppenheimer, a solemn three-hour biopic that became an unlikely billion-dollar box-office sensation, was crowned best picture at a 96th Academy Awards that doubled as a coronation for Christopher Nolan. After passing over arguably Hollywood's foremost big-screen auteur for years, the Oscars made up for lost time by heaping seven awards on Nolan's blockbuster biopic, including best actor for Cillian Murphy, best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr. and best director for Nolan. In anointing Oppenheimer, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts did something it hasn't done for more than a decade: hand its top prize to a widely seen, big-budget studio film. In a film industry where a cape, dinosaur or Tom Cruise has often been a requirement for such box office, Oppenheimer brought droves of moviegoers to theaters with a complex, fission-filled drama about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb. For better or worse, we're all living in Robert Oppenheimer's world," said ..

Cillian Murphy bags his first Oscar as best actor for 'Oppenheimer'

Cillian Murphy came away with his first Oscar for portraying the man who created the atomic bomb in Christopher Nolan's blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer. A first-time nominee, Murphy won best actor for his stellar role as J. Robert Oppenheimer. The film tells the story of how Oppenheimer and his peers at Los Alamos would test the bomb on July 16, 1945, not knowing what was going to happen and the ensuing fallout. Murphy bested Colman Domingo for Rustin, Bradley Cooper for Maestro, Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers, and Jeffrey Wright for American Fiction. The Irish actor, though a regular presence in Nolan films going back almost two decades, had always been a supporting player. This time, Nolan wanted him to lead. He's so understated and self-deprecating and, in his very English manner, just said, Listen, I've written this script, it's about Oppenheimer. I'd like you to be my Oppenheimer,' Murphy, 47, told The Associated Press last year. It was a great day. For Murphy, he knows ther

Christopher Nolan wins his first Oscar award for directing 'Oppenheimer'

Christopher Nolan has fulfilled his award show frontrunner status, winning his first Oscar on Sunday night for directing Oppenheimer. The 53-year-old British visionary has garnered critical acclaim throughout his career, but had never won an Oscar until now. He was nominated for directing Dunkirk in 2017 and for original screenplay in 2010 for Inception and in 2001 for Memento. Nolan beat out Jonathan Glazer of The Zone of Interest, Yorgos Lanthimos of Poor Things, Martin Scorsese of Killers of the Flower Moon, and Justine Triet of Anatomy of a Fall.At 81, Scorsese was the oldest directing nominee. Nolan was cheered on by his wife, Emma Thomas, who twice shared best picture nominations with her husband for producing Dunkirk and Inception. The college sweethearts have been producing partners on all of his films since 1997. Nolan had been the frontrunner throughout awards season, earning the top prize from the Directors Guild of America along with directing honors at the BAFTA Film .

Oscars 2024: India-set 'To Kill a Tiger' loses to '20 Days in Mariupol'

"To Kill a Tiger", set in a village in Jharkhand, lost to "20 Days in Mariupol" in the best documentary feature category at the 96th edition of the Academy Awards. Directed by Ukrainian filmmaker and war correspondent Mstyslav Chernov, "20 Days in Mariupol" follows the story of Ukrainian journalists trapped in Mariupol after Russia's invasion. Other Oscar nominees in the best documentary feature category were "Bobi Wine: The People's President", "The Eternal Memory", and "Four Daughters" . A Canadian production, "To Kill a Tiger" is directed by Delhi-born Nisha Pahuja, an Emmy-nominated filmmaker based in Toronto. It had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival 2022 where it won the Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film. The film follows Ranjit's uphill battle to find justice for his 13-year-old daughter who was abducted and later sexually assaulted by three men. "Ranjit goes to the police, and the men are arrested. But Ranjit's relief is short-lived

Oscars 2024: Poor Things, Da'Vine Joy Randloph win where Gaza protests rage

An election-year Academy Awards got underway Sunday with protests for Gaza raging outside the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, a few cutting remarks from host Jimmy Kimmel and an Oscar for Da'Vine Joy Randolph for her performance in The Holdovers. Kimmel, emceeing the ABC telecast for the fourth time, opened the 96th Academy Awards with an opening monologue that drew a few cold looks (from Robert Downey Jr., Sandra Hller and Messi, the dog from best-picture nominee Anatomy of a Fall). But Kimmel, emphasizing Hollywood as a union town following 2023's actor and writer strikes, drew a standing ovation for bringing out teamsters and behind-the-scenes workers who are now entering their own labor negotiations. Accepting the night's first award, an emotional Randolph was accompanied to the stage by her Holdovers co-star Paul Giamatti. For so long I've always wanted to be different, said Randolph. "And now I realize I just need to be myself." Though Randolph's win was widely expected, an up

Protests over Israel's war in Gaza snarl traffic outside Oscars in LA

Protests over over Israel's war in Gaza snarled traffic around the Academy Awards on Sunday, slowing stars' arrival at the red carpet and turning the Oscar spotlight toward the ongoing conflict. Scattered demonstrations were held in the vicinity around the Oscars on Sunday. Los Angeles police, which had expected protests, beefed up their already extensive presence. The Dolby Theatre and the red carpet leading into it are cordoned off for several blocks in every direction. But protesters carrying signs and chanting for ceasefire disrupted traffic near security checkpoints on Sunset Blvd. Some arrivals were slowed by as much as an hour. Some protesters shouted Shame! at those trying to reach the Oscars. Police in helmets and wielding batons declared an unlawful assembly and threatened arrest. Several attendees, including Billie Eilish and Finneas, best song nominees for What Was I Made For? from Barbie, wore pins for Gaza. Ava DuVernay and Ramy Youssef were also among those wearing ..

Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest wins Oscar for best international film

The harrowing Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest, which explores questions of complicity while depicting the mundane lives of a Nazi family in their home adjacent to the Auschwitz death camp, won the Academy Award for best international film. Writer-director Jonathan Glazer has found a way to convey evil without ever depicting the horror itself, wrote The Associated Press' Jocelyn Noveck in her review. But though it escapes our eyes, the horror assaults our senses in other, deeper ways. Sandra Hller, nominated for best actress for Anatomy of a Fall, plays Hedwig, the wife of Rudolf Hss (Christian Friedel), the bloodthirsty commandant of Auschwitz. The film was the United Kingdom's submission to the Oscars. In the film, the couple and their children go about their daily routines living in a home just on the other side of a stone wall from the gas chambers. Hss spends his work days overseeing the processing of trainloads of people, most sent directly to their deaths. Then he comes