As India sends Laapata Ladies as its official entry for the 97th Academy Awards, let's take a look at all the Indian movies that made news at the Oscars.
Mother India
Nominated for the 30th Academy Awards in the Best International Feature Film category, the 1957 movie directed by Meheboob Khan was India’s first Oscar nomination.
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Salaam Bombay!
Directed, co-written and co-produced by Mira Nair, the 1988 movie Salaam Bombay! was nominated for the 61st Academy Awards in the Best International Feature Film category.
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Lagaan
The 2001 movie set in British-ruled India was nominated for the 74th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category. It was directed and written by Ashutosh Gowariker.
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Period. End of Sentence.
This 2018 short film explores the stigma around menstruation, making history as the first Indian film to win an Oscar for the Best Documentary Short Film at the 91st Academy Awards.
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Writing with Fire
The 2021 documentary chronicling the rise of Dalit women journalists was nominated for the 94th Academy Awards in the Best Documentary Feature category.
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All that Breathes
The 2022 documentary film was nominated for the 95th Academy Awards in the Best Documentary Feature category.
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The Elephant Whisperers
This 2022 documentary follows the bond between an indigenous couple and an orphaned elephant. It won the Oscar for the Best Documentary Short Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
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RRR
The 2022 Telugu film RRR won an Oscar for the Best Original Song at the 95th Academy Awards in 2023 for the song “Naatu Naatu.”
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