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Ekta Kapoor, Guneet Monga, Tahira Kashyap s short film Bittu in Top 10 for Oscars 2021
Earlier in January this year, filmmakers Ekta Kapoor, Guneet Monga, Tahira Kashyap Khurrana, and Ruchikaa Kapoor launched their cinema collective- Indian Women Rising. Soon after they announced their first project, a short film titled Bittu. Directed by Karishma Dev Dube, the film managed to attract the critics attention with its stellar screenplay and performances. It had also bagged a place in the Oscars 2021 race. Now, The Academy has finally released the shortlisted films that will fight in the Oscars this year and Bittu is one of them. The film runs the race in the Short Film Category.
Jallikattu, India’s official entry for 93rd Academy Awards, out of Oscar race
With ‘Jallikattu’ exiting the foreign film race, India has once again drawn a blank in the category. The last Indian film that made it to the final five in the Best International Feature category was Ashutosh Gowariker’s ‘Lagaan’ in 2001. ‘Mother India’ (1958) and ‘Salaam Bombay’ (1989) are the other two Indian movies to have made it to the top five. PTI
Lijo Jose s Jallikattu
The film ‘Jallikattu’, which was India’s official entry in the Best International Feature category at the 93rd Academy Awards, is out of the Oscars race but the country is still in the fray with the short film ‘Bittu’ advancing to the next round in Best Live Action Short Film segment.
New Delhi [India], February 10 (ANI): The 93rd Academy Awards announced the shortlists in nine categories today and Indian Women Rising's first project 'Bittu' made it to the Live Action Short Film shortlist.
Jallikattu fails to make the cut at Oscars
(Eds: Adding details) New Delhi, Feb 10 (PTI) Filmmaker Lijo Jose Pellissery s Jallikattu , India s official entry in the Best International Feature category at the 93rd Academy Awards, is out of the Oscars race.The Malayalam-language movie 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 on Wednesday.Thomas Vinterberg s? Another Round , starring Mads Mikkelson, has made it to shortlist that also include Andrei Konchalovsky s Dear Comrades! (Russia), Agnieszka Holland s? Charlatan (Czech Republic) and two documentaries The Mole Agent ?from Chile and Collective ?from Romania.The other contenders are Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Two of Us (France), La Llorona (Guatemala), Better Days (Hong Kong), Sun Children (Iran), Night of the Kings (Ivory Coast), I m No Longer Here (Mexico), Hope (Norwa