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Stills from 'Homebound' and 'Sabar Bonda'
Columns

Lights, Camera, Scoop: How 'Homebound' Won September Oscar Submission Race; Into 'Sabar Bonda's Big Marketing Swing

The Hollywood Reporter India's weekly column 'Lights, Camera, Scoop' unravels the behind-the-scenes madness of the big Bollywood machinery.

BY Justin Rao
Kamal Haasan, Payal Kapadia and Ayushmann Khurrana.
Insight

Oscars: Kamal Haasan, Ayushmann Khurrana, Payal Kapadia Invited To Join Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

While Kamal Haasan and Ayushmann Khurrana have been invited to join the Actors' Branch, Payal Kapadia has received an invitation from the Writers' Branch.

BY Team THR India
News

Oscars: Film Academy Establishes Stunt Design Award

The award will be presented beginning at the 100th Oscars, which will recognize films released in 2027.

BY Scott Feinberg
Namit Malhotra, CEO of Double Negative, that garnered an Academy Award for 'Dune: Part Two'
Interviews

Namit Malhotra: 'The Ramayana' Belongs to The World—No One Person or Entity Owns It

The VFX veteran and CEO of Double Negative (DNEG) talks about the company's eighth Academy Award for 'Dune: Part Two' and working on Nitesh Tiwari's upcoming adaptation of the 'Ramayana'

BY Anushka Halve
Mikey Madison won Best Actress at the 2025 Oscars for 'Anora'.
Insight

Oscars 2025: Mikey Madison Wins Best Actress for 'Anora'

The 25-year-old actor won her first Academy Award, leading 'Anora' to a triumphant five wins at the Oscar ceremony

BY Team THR India
Cast and crew accept the Best Picture award for "Anora"
Insight

Oscars 2025: Sean Baker's 'Anora' Wins Best Picture, Sweeps the Academy Awards

'Anora' emerged as the evening’s biggest winner, securing five awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing for Baker, along with Best Actress for Mikey Madison.

BY Team THR India
Adrien Brody accepts the Best Actor In A Leading Role award for "The Brutalist"
Insight

Oscars 2025: Adrien Brody Wins Best Actor for 'The Brutalist'

This was Brody's second Best Actor Oscar win after the Roman Polanski-directed feature 'The Pianist' in 2003, when he became the youngest ever winner of the same award

BY Team THR India
Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham accept the Documentary Feature Film award "No Other Land"
Insight

Oscars 2025: ‘No Other Land’ Wins Best Documentary, Filmmakers Call for Political Solution in Gaza

The Palestinian-Israeli documentary chronicles the struggle against forced expulsions in Masafer Yatta and delivers a powerful message

BY Team THR India
'The French Connection'
Insight

Gene Hackman, Oscar-Winning Star of ‘The French Connection,’ Dies at 95

His superb body of work includes 'Bonnie and Clyde,' 'I Never Sang for My Father,' 'The Conversation,' 'Hoosiers' and 'Unforgiven.'

BY Mike Barnes +1 More
Stills from 'Emilia Peréz', 'Conclave' and 'The Brutalist'.
Insight

Oscars 2025: A Dummy’s Guide To the Show and the Scandals

Here’s everything you need to know about the scandals, campaigns and films that are turning heads at the upcoming 97th Academy Awards this year.

BY Prathyush Parasuraman
A still from 'Emilia Pérez'.
Insight

Oscars 2025 | The Real Problem With 'Emilia Pérez' Is Its Form — The Musical

A favourite in the Oscar race, Jacques Audiard’s 'Emilia Pérez' is nominated for 12 Cesar Awards and 13 nods for the Academy Awards — the highest for any film this year, with Karla Sofía Gascón as the first openly transgender actor nominated for an Oscar.

BY Prathyush Parasuraman
News

Report That Oscars Are “On Verge of Being Canceled” Is False, Film Academy Sources Say (Exclusive)

The U.K. tabloid The Sun posted a story to its website on Tuesday evening suggesting that the Academy is consulting a committee of A-listers about whether to proceed with the ceremony on March 2.

BY Scott Feinberg
News

The Real Reason We Care About Oscar Season

It can feel like so much fluff. But there's something deeply human beneath the glitter.

BY Steven Zeitchik
Arian Moayed, Jasmin Mozaffari
News

‘Succession’ Star Arian Moayed to Exec Produce Oscar Contender ‘Motherland’ (Exclusive)

Jasmin Mozaffari’s short drama is making a push for Academy Awards consideration after earnings prizes at Toronto, Aspen Shortfest and the Canadian Screen Awards.

BY Etan Vlessing
Laapataa Ladies
Insight

India’s Oscar Committee Reveals Why It Didn’t Select ‘All We Imagine as Light’: “A European Film Taking Place in India”

The selection committee within the Film Federation of India has come under fire, with some accusing the all-male board of sexism.

BY Anushka Halve
Zoë Saldaña in 'Emilia Perez'
News

Oscars 2025: France Picks ‘Emilia Pérez’ for Best International Feature Race

Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Spanish actress Karla Sofia Gascón star in Jacques Audiard’s queer crime musical.

BY Scott Roxborough
'Armand'
News

Oscars 2025: Norway Picks Renate Reinsve Starrer ‘Armand’ for International Feature Race

The actress plays a mother defending her son in the school-set drama from first-time director Halfdan Ullmann Tondel.

BY Scott Roxborough
'The Girl With the Needle'
News

Oscars 2025: Denmark Picks ‘The Girl With the Needle’ for International Feature Race

Magnus von Horn's period drama looks at the plight of pregnant women seeking a termination at a time when abortion was illegal and there were few other options.

BY Scott Roxborough