The 2020 invitees also include Bollywood stars Alia Bhatt and Hrithik Roshan, documentary director Nishtha Jain, writer Sabrina Dhawan, casting directors Nandini Shrikent and Tess Joseph, visual effects artistes Vishal Anand and Sandeep Kamal, and V. Senthil Kumar, the co-founder of the digital streaming company Qube Cinema Technologies.
August 2, 2020Parasite made history this month by becoming the first foreign-language movie to win the coveted award.
February 21, 2020The Academy Awards will air on 10 February 2020.
January 14, 2020Set in rural India, the film on menstruation has been directed by award-winning filmmaker Rayka Zehtabchi and produced by Guneet Monga's Sikhya Entertainment
February 25, 2019Mahershala Ali, who played Dr Don Shirley in biographical comedy-drama "Green Book", gets his career's second Oscar in the category; part in "If Beale Street Could Talk" gets Regina King her first
February 25, 2019The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, and it honoured the best films of 1927 and 1928 .
February 24, 201991st Academy Awards: When does the show begin? Where can you watch it? Read on to know everything
February 24, 2019A film set in rural India, Period. End of Sentence, which is based on the taboos around menstruation has earned an Oscar nomination this year.
January 23, 2019The 91st annual academy awards are here. Nominations have been announced as Oscars 2019 are all set to honour films released over the previous year.
January 23, 2019From next year, there will be an award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film. This is first time a new Oscar category has been introduced since Best Animated Film in 2001.
August 9, 2018The Academy Awards, the most coveted accolade worldwide, has been brought to the country by five Indians, not to mention Satyajit Ray, who put Bengali cinema squarely on the world map.
July 7, 2018Indian actor Ali Fazal-starrer “Victoria & Abdul”, with Judi Dench in the key role, lost out on a chance to win an Oscar at the 90th Academy Awards here on Sunday. The movie was nominated in two categories – Best Costume Design for Consolata Boyle and Make-up and Hairstyling for Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard. …
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March 5, 2018Pakistan-origin actor-comedian Kumail Nanjiani and his wife Emily V. Gordon missed out on winning an Oscar for their original screenplay for the film “The Big Sick”, featuring Indian actor Anupam Kher, here. It was the first nomination for the couple. The award went to Jordan Peele for “Get Out”, beating other nominees “Lady Bird”, “The …
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March 5, 2018The 90th Academy Awards is about to go live on 4 March 2018. The Oscars will be aired in India on Monday 5:30 am. The biggest award show of the year will be hosted at Dolby Theater, Hollywood and Highland Centre in Los Angeles, USA. The USA viewers will be able to watch the telecast of the ceremony on ABC at 8 …
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March 3, 2018Just days before the 90th Academy Awards, a Harvey Weinstein statue ‘Casting Couch’ has appeared on Hollywood Boulevard here, drawing a lot of attention. The golden statue depicts Weinstein sitting on a coach wearing a slightly opened bathrobe with an Oscar in his right hand. The figure is close to the Dolby Theatre, where the …
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March 3, 2018The 90th Academy award was scheduled to be conducted today. The nominations for the Oscars 2018 unveiled online at 6:50 pm on 23 January. The audience can view the nominations live as Tiffany Haddish and actor Andy Serkis host the event from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles. As revealed earlier, Priyanka Chopra, …
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January 23, 2018Ace music composer A R Rahman has done it all, from winning the Academy Award for best original score to representing the nation on a global level. The musician has made every Indian proud with his contributions in the field of arts and music. Fondly called as the Mozart of Madras, Rahman is considered as …
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January 6, 2018