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  • Shaunak Sen’s 'All That Breathes', Vinay Shukla’s Ravish Kumar-starrer 'While We Watched' win Peabody Awards in Documentary category

    'All That Breathes' and 'While We Watched' are the second and third Indian films to win a Peabody, after Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s 'Writing With Fire' bagged the award in 2023. 'All That Breathes' and 'Writing With Fire' were nominated for the Oscars in 2023 and 2022, respectively.

  • Oscar Predictions 2024: Who will win the Best Documentary Feature Film?

    Oscar Predictions 2024: Who will win the Best Documentary Feature Film?

    Last year at the Oscars, the documentary 'Navalny' bagged the top prize. The Russian Opposition leader died in prison last month. This year, Ukraine's '20 Days in Mariupol' might take home the said award at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday.

  • Jio MAMI 2023: How Chinese vessels & global warming impinge on Mumbai Koli economy in this Sundance winner

    Jio MAMI 2023: How Chinese vessels & global warming impinge on Mumbai Koli economy in this Sundance winner

    Sarvnik Kaur’s Against the Tide, the 2023 Sundance World Cinema Documentary Verite Filmmaking Special Jury Award winner, is the only documentary in South Asia Competition at Mumbai Film Festival next week.

  • 'Summer of Soul': The documentary that beat 'Writing With Fire' to win an Oscar

    'Summer of Soul': The documentary that beat 'Writing With Fire' to win an Oscar

    The story of 'Kabar Lahariya' Dalit women reporters lost a historic Oscar to the retelling of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival that celebrates Black music as American history.

  • Oscars 2022: India's 'Writing with Fire' misses Oscar, 'Summer of Soul' Best Documentary Feature

    Oscars 2022: India's 'Writing with Fire' misses Oscar, 'Summer of Soul' Best Documentary Feature

  • Oscars 2022 | Why ‘Writing with Fire’ can create history if it wins Best Documentary Feature

    Oscars 2022 | Why ‘Writing with Fire’ can create history if it wins Best Documentary Feature

    A win for Writing with Fire will be historic, partly because it is the only film which is truly an independent project, without the backing of any big studio or OTT platform.

  • Oscars 2022: As India's 'Writing With Fire' awaits a possible award, its subjects maintain distance

    Oscars 2022: As India's 'Writing With Fire' awaits a possible award, its subjects maintain distance

    Directed by debutants Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh, Writing With Fire chronicles the rise of Khabar Lahariya, India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women.

  • Oscars 2022 | What’s “international” in a movie?

    Oscars 2022 | What’s “international” in a movie?

    It’s time American awards shows dropped the “international” or “foreign” category and judge a movie as just a movie.

  • Priyanka Chopra hosts pre-Oscars event: 'Today, I'm not someone else'. Watch her speech

    Priyanka Chopra hosts pre-Oscars event: 'Today, I'm not someone else'. Watch her speech

    Priyanka Chopra's co-hosts included Mindy Kaling, Kumail Nanjiani, Anjula Acharia, Bela Bajaria, Maneesh K. Goyal and Shruti Ganguly.

  • Khabar Lahariya says Oscar-nominated 'Writing With Fire' 'inaccurate, eclipses our work'

    Khabar Lahariya says Oscar-nominated 'Writing With Fire' 'inaccurate, eclipses our work'

    Oscar Awards 2022: Khabar Lahariya said its journalistic values are not "reflected" in the documentary "Writing With Fire", which has created a splash across international film festivals.

  • Rise of the Indian documentary: Journey to the Oscar-nominated 'Writing With Fire'

    Rise of the Indian documentary: Journey to the Oscar-nominated 'Writing With Fire'

    Writing With Fire's Oscar nomination follows a strong documentary filmmaking movement in the last decade.

  • Watch: 'Writing With Fire' directors' first reaction on Oscar nomination

    Watch: 'Writing With Fire' directors' first reaction on Oscar nomination

    Oscars 2022: Directed by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh, “Writing With Fire” chronicles the rise of Khabar Lahariya, India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women.

  • Oscar 2022 | Leonardo DiCaprio, Lady Gaga and other misses amid mostly great nominations

    Oscar 2022 | Leonardo DiCaprio, Lady Gaga and other misses amid mostly great nominations

    12 nominations for 'The Power of The Dog' is great, but there's no explaining why 'Tick Tick Boom!' didn't make the best picture list.

  • Oscars 2022 shortlist: Tamil drama Koozhangal out of race, documentary Writing With Fire makes the cut

    Oscars 2022 shortlist: Tamil drama Koozhangal out of race, documentary Writing With Fire makes the cut

    Indian documentary feature Writing With Fire has entered the next round, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the shortlists on December 22.

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