Oscar nominations 2025: Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light is India’s pride despite the Academy miss

When the movie failed to marque the chopped of becoming India’s authoritative submission to the Oscars, which was yet bagged by Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Ladies, determination was a immense furore implicit the snub. In fact, galore argued that it was our champion stake astatine the Oscars considering the prizes it was getting successful the planetary awards circuit, and being a collaboration of accumulation houses from France, India, Italy, France, and Netherlands. Nevertheless, the designation from prestigious awards similar Cannes festival, wherever it became the archetypal Indian movie to triumph the Grand Prix, Chicago International Film Festival, Gotham Awards, New York Film Critics Circle, and San Diego Film Critics Circle.

All We Imagine As Light besides made past astatine the Golden Globes by becoming nominated successful the Best Foreign Language film, and Best Director for Payal Kapadia. It has besides been nominated successful the ‘Best Film Not successful the English Language’ class successful the upcoming BAFTA. Payal has been making waves with her beingness successful the planetary circuit, and her caller beingness successful the writers’ roundtable of The Hollywood Reporter alongside the likes of Halina Reijn (Babygirl), James Mangold (A Complete Unknown), Jason Reitman (Saturday Night), Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain), and Justin Kuritzkes (Challengers and Queer) was a large designation of her talent.

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Starring Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon, and Anand Sami, All We Imagine As Light was written and directed by Payal, and produced by Thomas Hakim and Julien Graff. Shot by Ranabir Das, and edited by Clement Pinteaux, All We Imagine arsenic Light was distributed successful India by Rana Daggubati’s Spirit Media.