A night to remember: India’s ‘RRR’ & ‘Elephant Whisperers’ steal the show at Oscars 2023

A night to remember: India’s ‘RRR’ & ‘Elephant Whisperers’ steal the show at Oscars 2023

By Sanjay Kumar

At the 95th Academy Awards, the Telugu-language song NaatuNaatu created history by winning the Best Original Song category. This popular song is from the movie RRR, and it was written by Chandrabose and composed by M MKeeravaani. NaatuNaatu’s victory at the Oscars marks the first time that a song from an Indian-made film has ever won an award at the prestigious ceremony.

Despite tough competition from some renowned names like Diane Warren’s Applause from Tell It Like A Woman, Lady Gaga’s Hold My Hand from Top Gun Maverick, Rihanna’s Lift Me Up from Black Panther Wakanda Forever, and Ryan Lott’s This is a Life from Everything Everywhere All At Once, NaatuNaatu emerged as the winner. During his acceptance speech, MM Keeravani sang on stage and concluded with a namaste.

India’s ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ wins Best Documentary Short?– The Elephant Whisperers, a Netflix documentary short by Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga, won the Best Documentary Short category. The film was up against tough competition from Haulout, How Do You Measure a Year?, The Martha Mitchell Effect, and Stranger At The Gate. Director Gonzalves dedicated the award to ‘my motherland, India’. Guneet, in an Instagram post, wrote, “Tonight is historic as this is the first ever Oscar for an Indian production…”

Apart from ‘NaatuNaatu’ and?‘The Elephant Whisperers’?win, ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ was also a big winner at the event. This film, which depicts the story of a Chinese immigrant who embarks on an epic adventure to connect different versions of herself in a parallel universe while fighting the evil forces that threaten the multiverse, won around seven Oscars.

The first award of the night was for ‘Best Animated’ film, which went to ‘Pinochhio’. Moreover, Guillermo del Toro made history by becoming the first person ever to win Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Animated Feature at the Oscars.

Check out the complete winners list of Oscars 2023. The winners of the 95th Academy Awards have been marked in bold.

Best Picture

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Elvis
• Winner – Everything Everywhere All At Once
• The Fabelmans
• Tár
• Top Gun Maverick
• Triangle of Sadness
• Women Talking

Best Actress

• Cate Blanchett – Tár
• Ana de Armas – Blonde
• Andrea Riseborough – To Leslie
• Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans
• Winner – Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Actor

• Austin Butler – Elvis
• Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
• Winner – Brendan Fraser – The Whale
• Paul Mescal – Aftersun
• Bill Nighy – Living

Best Director

• Winner – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Schienert – Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Todd Field – Tár
• Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
• Ruben ?stlund – Triangle of Sadness
• Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans

Best Film Editing

• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Elvis
• Winner – Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Tár
• Top Gun: Maverick

Best Original Song

• “Applause” (Tell It Like a Woman)
• “Hold My Hand” (Top Gun: Maverick)
• “Lift Me Up” (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
• Winner – “NaatuNaatu” (RRR)
• “This Is a Life” (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Best Sound

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• The Batman
• Elvis
• Winner – Top Gun: Maverick

Best Adapted Screenplay

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Living
• Top Gun: Maverick
• Winner – Women Talking

Best Original Screenplay

• The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh
• Winner – Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Schienert
• The Fabelmans – Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner
• Tár – Todd Field
• Triangle of Sadness – Ruben ?stlund

Best Visual Effects

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Winner – Avatar: The Way of Water
• The Batman
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Top Gun: Maverick

Best Production Design

• Winner – All Quiet on the Western Front
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• Babylon
• Elvis
• The Fabelmans

Best Original Score

• Winner – All Quiet on the Western Front
• Babylon
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• The Fabelmans

Best Animated Short Film

• Winner – The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse
• The Flying Sailor
• Ice Merchants
• My Year of Dicks
• An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It

Best Documentary Short Film

• Winner – The Elephant Whisperers
• Haulout
• How Do You Measure a Year?
• The Martha Mitchell Effect
• Stranger at the Gate

Best Costume Design

• Babylon
• Winner – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Elvis
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Harris Goes to Paris

Best International Feature Film

• Winner – All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
• Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)
• Close (Belgium)
• EO (Poland)
• The Quiet Girl (Ireland)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• The Batman
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Elvis
• Winner – The Whale

Best Cinematography

• Winner – All Quiet on the Western Front
• Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
• Elvis
• Empire of Light
• Tár

Best Documentary Feature Film

• All That Breathes
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
• Fire of Love
• A House Made of Splinters
• Winner – Navalny

Best Live Action Short

• Winner – An Irish Goodbye
• Ivalu
• Le Pupille
• Night Ride
• The Red Suitcase

Best Supporting Actress

• Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Hong Chau – The Whale
• Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin
• Winner – Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Supporting Actor

• Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin
• Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway
• Judd Hirsch – The Fabelmans
• Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin
• Winner – KeHuy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Animated Feature Film

• Winner – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
• Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
• The Sea Beast
• Turning Red

The Oscars 2023 were held on March 13 in Los Angeles’ Dolby theatre. It was hosted by popular late night show host Jimmy Kimmel.

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