Oscars 2023 Nominations LIVE Updates: All Eyes on 4 Films from India that Have Been Shortliste

Oscars 2023 Nominations LIVE Updates: The nominations for the 95th Academy Awards will be announced in a few hours. Nominations in all 23 categories will be announced in a global livestream on Tuesday at 5:30am PST/8:30am EST. As per Indian Standard Time (IST), the time will be 7pm today. Actor-producer Riz Ahmed and actress Allison Williams will host the announcement in a live presentation from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California. The presentation will stream on Oscar.com, Oscars.org and the Academy’s digital platforms. 

Oscars 2023 Nominations LIVE Updates: The Elephant Whisperers in the Running for Best Documentary Short Film Nod

Kartiki Gonsalves’ short documentary The Elephant Whisperers is also in the running for an Oscar nomination in the Best Documentary Short Film. The Tamil-language short documentary chronicles the lives of a couple who take care of a baby elephant named Raghu. It will have to fend off challenges from strong contenders like American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton, Anastasia, Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison and As Far as They Can Run.

Oscars 2023 Nominations LIVE Updates: Shaunak Sen’s Documentary All That Breathes on the Shortlist

Shaunak Sen’s documentary film All That Breathes is on the Academy’s Best Documentary Feature Film shortlist. It revolves around the lives of two brothers — Nadeem and Saud — whose lives in Delhi are dedicated to caring for birds at a makeshift basement hospital. The movie, which won Oeil d’Or (Golden Eye Award) at the 75th Cannes Film Festival is pitted against other documentaries like Fire of Love, Children of the Mist, Hidden Letters, A House Made of Splinters and The Janes.

Oscars 2023 Nominations LIVE Updates: India's Official Entry Chhello Show is in the Shortlist

Directed by Pan Nalin, Chhello Show (Last Film Show in English) is a Gujarati coming-of-age story of a young boy’s love affair with cinema in a village of Saurashtra. Produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur and Dheer Momaya, the movie is part of the international feature film shortlist line-up.

Oscars 2023 Nominations LIVE Updates: 4 Indian Movies are in the Shortlist

The 95th Academy Awards are particularly thrilling for India because four movies—RRR, Chhello Show, All That Breathes, and The Elephant Whisperers — have been selected for the shortlist. SS Rajamouli’s period action film RRR is in the Best Original Song shortlist for the foot-tapping number Naatu Naatu, which recently bagged the Golden Globe Award in the same category.

Oscars 2023 Nominations LIVE Updates: 4 Indian Movies are in the Shortlist

The 95th Academy Awards are particularly thrilling for India because four movies—RRR, Chhello Show, All That Breathes, and The Elephant Whisperers — have been selected for the shortlist. SS Rajamouli’s period action film RRR is in the Best Original Song shortlist for the foot-tapping number Naatu Naatu, which recently bagged the Golden Globe Award in the same category.

Oscars 2023 Nominations LIVE Updates: Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams to Announce Nominees

The Oscar nominations 2023 will be announced at 7pm IST. The event announcing nominees will take place at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater and will be hosted by actors Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams.