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Oscars 2023: Jamie Lee Curtis wins Best Supporting Actress award

In the film, Curtis portrays tax inspector Deirdre Beaubeirdre as well as the character's alternate-universe counterparts

Oscars 2023: The Elephant Whisperers wins Best Documentary Short Film award

Tamil documentary The Elephant Whisperers emerged as the winner at the 95th Academy Awards making it a maiden victory for India in the Documentary Short Subject category. Directed by Kartiki Gonsalves, the Netflix documentary bested Haulout, How Do You Measure a Year?, The Martha Mitchell Effect and Stranger at the Gate to scoop the trophy. The Elephant Whisperers" depicts an unbreakable bond between two abandoned elephants and their caretakers. It is produced by Guneet Monga and Achin Jain of Sikhya Entertainment. Earlier, two entries were set in India - "Smile Pinki" and "Period. End Of Sentence", won Oscars for Documentary Short. Monga was the executive producer on Period.

Oscars 2023: Shaunak Sen's 'All That Breathes' loses out to 'Navalny'

Indian climate change documentary "All That Breathes" could not register a win at the 95th edition of the Academy Awards, losing out to Daniel Roher's "Navalny". The Shaunak Sen-directorial was nominated in the segment alongside All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Fire of Love, and A House Made of Splinters. "Navalny" is a documentary film that revolves around Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and events related to his poisoning. The award was presented to the team of the American production by actor Riz Ahmed and musician Questlove. "All That Breathes" is a Delhi-set documentary which follows two siblings, Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad, who have devoted their lives to rescuing and treating injured birds, especially black kites. The critically-acclaimed film previously won the 'World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary' at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and the Golden Eye award for the best documentary at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. This is the second upset for India

Topol, star of 'Fiddler on the Roof' onscreen and onstage, dies at 87

Wide acclaim for his portrayal of Tevye helped make him, according to one newspaper, Israel's most famous export since the Jaffa orange

RRR, Pathaan remind trade and studios of economic power of single screens

Can single screens be resuscitated?

Pathaan shows it might not yet be curtains for single-screen cinemas

Their number is dwindling but single-screens believe they have a place in the entertainment space

SRK-starrer 'Pathaan' set to witness blockbuster Rs 50-crore opening

Multiplex chains and film trade experts say that SRK-starrer will rank amongst biggest openings for a Hindi film after Hindi version of KGF 2 last year

Multiplex operator PVR back in the black in Q3, revenue jumps 53%

Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (Ebitda) grew 75.1 per cent YoY to Rs 288.8 crore in the quarter

Critics Choice Awards 2023: 'RRR' wins Best Foreign Language Film

After bringing the Golden Globe, filmmaker Rajamouli's magnum opus film 'RRR' has won the Critics' Choice Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Golden Globes 2023: Brunson gets Best Actress award for 'Abbott Elementary'

Brunson was chosen over fellow nominees Kaley Cuoco ('The Flight Attendant'), Selena Gomez ('Only Murders in the Building'), Jenna Ortega ('Wednesday')

'RRR', 'All That Breathes' enter the BAFTA film awards long list

This is the initial longlisting round and the films will advance to the nominating stage of voting

Cinema halls, multiplexes have the right to prohibit outside food, says SC

Theatre owners have to let parents to bring food for infants and provide free drinking water to visitors

PVR-INOX merger should get done by Feb next year: Director Siddharth Jain

'We would love to have more players entering the market because that is how the business will grow'

A full house for cinema: 2022 box office to close at Rs 11,000 crore

South cinema the big outlier; Bollywood hits in dribs and drabs

'RRR' most popular Indian movie, 'Panchayat' top web series in IMDb list

Nine out of ten most popular Indian movies on the IMDb list are from southern states starting with S S Rajamouli's magnum opus 'RRR' which landed the top spot

Nadav Lapid: Israel's 'philosophical' filmmaker who has stirred up a storm

Reacting to the backlash for his remarks about The Kashmir Files, Lapid says making bad films is not a crime, but the film is 'crude, manipulative and violent'

PVR sees superplexes as next blockbuster concept in cinema business

A regular multiplex typically has 4-5 screens per property. Larger ones may go up to 7-8 screens at a single location

Govt working on model theatre policy to arrest decline in cinemas

The government will also work with states to facilitate and promote film shootings in India, he said

The Hollywood sign is going to look jolly good on its 100th anniversary

the iconic Hollywood sign gets a facelift, here's a look at its birth and evolution

House full as cinemas open in Shopian and Pulwama in South Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Sunday inaugurated multipurpose cinema halls in South Kashmir's Pulwama and Shopian districts