Oscars 2023: Big Day

 For Indian Cinema - 3

 Nominations Including 

RRR's Naatu Naatu

Two Indian-made documentaries are also going to the Oscars - All That Breathes has been nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film and The Elephant Whisperers for Best Documentary Short. India's official Oscar entry, Chhello Show or Last Picture Show, was left out of the final slate in the Best International Feature Film category.

RRR and the documentaries join a select group of Indian films to have gone to the Oscars - Mother India, Salaam Bombay and Lagaan were nominated for Best International Feature Film. Were he to add an Oscar to his Golden Globe, Naatu Naatu composer MM Keeravaani will be part of a group of Indian Oscar winners that includes Bhanu Athaiya who won Best Costume Design for Gandhi, and AR Rahman, Gulzar and sound engineer Resul Pookutty who won Oscars for their work in Slumdog Millionaire, a British-made film set in India