CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -At the 30th Academy Awards, Mehboob Khan’s 1957 Hindi-language film Mother India was India’s first submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film category. It was nominated alongside four other films and lost to the Italian film Nights of Cabiria (1957) by one vote.

Detailed explanation-2: -RRR, Chhello Show, All That Breathes, and The Elephant Whisperers are the four Indian films nominated for Academy Awards in 2023. The Oscar nominations announcement will be live-streamed on YouTube, Oscar.com, Oscars.org, and other Academy social media platforms.

Detailed explanation-3: -The rules currently governing the International Feature Film category state that “the Academy statuette (Oscar) will be awarded to the picture and ‘accepted by the director on behalf of the film’s creative talents". Therefore, the director does not personally win the Award, but simply accepts it during the ceremony.

Detailed explanation-4: -Parasite is the only foreign film to win Best Picture so far although The Artist was the first silent film in French production to win Best Picture, but it was not submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film due to it being ineligible.