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Time, directed by Garrett Bradley, and
All In: The Fight for Democracy, directed by Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés.
Time, which touches on mass incarceration through the experience of one Black family in Louisiana, must be considered a solid favorite in the Oscar race, having tied for the Gotham Award and amassing multiple critics’ prizes.
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Jallikattu out of Oscars 2021 run. Bittu makes it to Live Action Short Film shortlist
Jallikattu out of Oscars 2021 run. Bittu makes it to Live Action Short Film shortlist
Karishma Dev Dube s Bittu has made it to the Live Action Short Film shortlist for the 93rd Academy Awards. Meanwhile, Jallikattu is out of the Oscars 2021 race.
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UPDATED: February 10, 2021 12:50 IST
While Malayalam film Jallikattu is out of the Oscars 2021 race, Karishma Dev Dube s Bittu has made it to the Live Action Short Film shortlist.
The 93rd Oscars shortlists in nine categories were announced today, February 10. Karishma Dev Dube directorial Bittu has made it to the Live Action Short Film shortlist. On the other hand, India’s official Oscar entry Jallikattu failed to make it to the International Feature Film shortlist.
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Shortlists for nine Oscar categories have been unveiled by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas), an intermediate stage in the thinning-out of films that have qualified for consideration for the Academy Awards. The categories include best documentary, best international film and best song, as well as best live action and documentary shorts.
The rules for each voting process vary, but in most categories a preliminary vote from industry specialists in each field is employed to create the shortlist and then the final five nominations, with the full membership of the Academy invited to vote on the winner.
On February 9, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the Oscars shortlists for nine different categories, including best song, best visual effects, and best documentary.
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These categories include documentary, international features, original score, original song, makeup and hairstyling, visual effects, and documentary, live-action and animated short.
As date approaches for the
Oscars 2021 ceremony that is scheduled for April 25,
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed its shortlists for the
2021 Oscars in nine categories.
These categories include documentary, international features, original score, original song, makeup and hairstyling, visual effects, and documentary, live-action and animated short.
A massive total of 238 documentary features and 93 international features were contending for just 15 shortlisted names in each of these categories for
The shortlist for
original score includes Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, who were recognized both for their work on longtime collaborator David Fincher s 1940-set period biopic ‘Mank’ and Pixar s animated ‘Soul’, for which they created music of the