'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s time American awards shows dropped the “international” or “foreign” category and judge a movie as just a movie.
Priyanka Chopra's co-hosts included Mindy Kaling, Kumail Nanjiani, Anjula Acharia, Bela Bajaria, Maneesh K. Goyal and Shruti Ganguly.
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.
Writing With Fire's Oscar nomination follows a strong documentary filmmaking movement in the last decade.
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.
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.
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.