Tag: Oscar

Tirana: “Daybreak” by director Gentian Koci is Albania’s official candidate for the Oscars’ best foreign-language film award. “Daybreak” is a drama which received wide critical acclaim after its premiere at the Sarajevo Film Festival. If nominated, it would be the first Albanian movie to reach this stage, Xinhua reported. Since 1996, Albania has sent 10 […]

Los Angeles: Oscar winner Nicole Kidman won her first ever Emmy Award as Outstanding Actress in a Limited Series, for her role in “Big Little Lies”. She called domestic abuse a “complicated, insidious disease”. Kidman played Celeste, a wife and mother who becomes the victim of domestic violence at the hands of her husband Perry, […]

New Delhi: Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman has been roped in to compose the music for the Bruce Lee biopic, which is being directed by Academy Award nominated filmmaker Shekhar Kapur. “A.R. Rahman is also doing the music for Bruce Lee,” Kapur, who is in Mumbai briefly, told IANS over phone. Kapur is pre-occupied with the […]

New Delhi: Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman has been roped in to compose the music for the Bruce Lee biopic, which is being directed by Academy Award nominated filmmaker Shekhar Kapur. “A.R. Rahman is also doing the music for Bruce Lee,” Kapur, who is in Mumbai briefly, told IANS over phone. Kapur is pre-occupied with the […]

New York: The weather god wasn’t kind to the IIFA Rocks gala at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, where Oscar winning composer-singer A.R. Rahman performed live for fans in the US. But the show went on — and rocked. Rahman on Friday evening only took the stage for his culminating performance a few hours after […]

Mumbai: Oscar winning composer A.R. Rahman says he is looking forward to regale music lovers with his July 8 concert in London, which has been hit by two terror attacks. “Friends and music lovers in the UK, looking forward to being amongst you and performing with my entire team,” Rahman posted on his Facebook page […]

Cannes: Actor Irrfan Khan will feature in a film adaptation of the novel “Moth Smoke” by Pakistan-born author Mohsin Hamid. The film will be helmed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia. Irrfan, Kapadia and independent producer Dina Dattani (executive producer on “Bombay Velvet”) acquired the rights to the novel, reports variety.com. Kapadia will direct and co-write […]

New Delhi: The emergence and advancement of technology and visual effects (VFX) has transformed storytelling techniques, says Academy Award-winning VFX supervisor Scott E. Anderson, who has worked on films like “Hollow Man”, “Point Break” and “The Shallows”. The 53-year-old is happy that technology is nowadays being used to tell more stories on screen. “The kind of […]

Los Angeles: Mahershala Ali made history by becoming the first Muslim to win an acting Oscar as he was honoured with the best supporting actor trophy for his riveting turn as an empathetic drug dealer, who takes a fatherless young boy under his wing in “Moonlight. Ali, 43, is only in the first third of […]

Cuttack: The Gujarat police today for a second time took into custody Oscar Group of Companies chairman Pravash Rout in connection with several chit fund scam cases pending against him in a Valsad court. Arrested by the Odisha police in June this year from New Delhi, Rout had also been taken on a 15-day remand […]

Los Angeles: Oscar-winning Indian musician A R Rahman lost out the Golden Globe in the Original Score category to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, who won for their music in `The Social Network`.

Actress Emma Stone, who is in the race to grab an Oscar for her performance in movie "Birdman", says she is concentrating on getting enough sleep before the big night

Matthew McConaughey won the best actor Oscar for his career defining performance in "Dallas Buyers Club......

Australian actress Cate Blanchette won the best actress Oscar for her brilliant portrayal of a high-society....

Mumbai: Zoya Akhtar’s “Gully Boy”, which was India’s official entry to the Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category, is out of the race. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday released a shortlist of ten films in the Best FOrein Language Film category for the 92nd Academy Awards, and “Gully […]