From victories to deaths, 2009 has seen its share of headlines. Here's a look at the year's most memorable stories.
Only Bong Joon Ho -- whose film Parasite won the Oscars for Best Film, Best Director, Best International Feature -- knows how to work with a heavy hand and still get respectable results, says Ranjita Ganesan.
AR Rahman has been nominated in several categories for his compositions from the Oscar-winning movie.
Danny Boyle has decided to withhold the trust fund set up for the movie's child stars after reports emerged that they are not attending school regularly.
The date for next year's Academy Awards has been confirmed as February 27, 2011.
Infidelity claims may result in a split between the actress and her husband Jesse James.
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards were, without question, the most badly written and weakly produced show in the last two decades, and quite likely one of the most drab shows of all time.
The Shekhar Kapur-directed ad featuring Nicole Kidman, Arjun Rampal and Slumdog Millionaire's Rubina Ali, doesn't make any sense.
Recently, he received the prestigious Lorenzo De Medici Gold Medal, at Florence Internazionale Biennale, in Florence, Italy, for his work Bacon's Man with the Child and Priest.
The cast and crew of Smile Pinki are touring India, to spread the message of the film -- cleft lip operations -- and the greater vision of Smile Train.
India's oscar entry this year is a marathi film. The director, Paresh Mokashi talks about the film.
Vanity Fair Oscar Party was no less than the big awards night.
Budget to match that of smash-hit sci-fi Avatar, the most expensive movie made till date.
Fans of the maestro are going to love this Tamil soundtrack.
The Oscar winning music composer hopes music can relieve the ongoing tension between India and Australia following racist attacks.
A few years back eminent filmmaker Roman Polanski couldn't enter the United States, even if it was to receive the much sought after Best Director Oscar.
The Academy Award winning actor whose film Robin Hood opened the prestigious Cannes festival, has been in talks with Indian financiers and plans to star in the production too.
A look at the Ninth Indian Television Academy Awards held recently in Mumbai.
Oscar statuettes are cheaper than they used to be.
Dunkirk may have been missed at the year's earlier awards shows, but thanks god, Chris Nolan's classic gets enough play at the Oscar noms.
Doordarshan's Visaranai Commission, directed by Vasanth, is a beautifully crafted, hard-hitting dose of real life; a must watch.
The 92nd Academy Awards nominations have been announced at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.
It is the first time any actor has won a Razzie and an Oscar in the same year.
In anticipation of Jeff Bridges taking the trophy, its box office gross went up by 36 percent over the weekend.
India has highest number of entries, with five actors included in the list.
Here's a look at the Oscar nominations, 2010.
Aseem Chhabra tries to guess which movies will be a part of Oscar history, if only as a nomination.
Indian music maestro A R Rahman struck gold once again, bagging two trophies at the 52nd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles for his music in Slumdog Millionaire.
The Tamil song 'Na Na' has been shortlisted for nomination in the original song category for the 82nd Academy Awards.
Long before Resul Pookutty's Oscar blast, Malayalam filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan used sound as a leitmotif in his films. For Adoor, known world over as one of the finest filmmakers ever from India, sound is as important as any other factor in a film.
Rahman has become the first Indian -- and by Indian, we mean born in India, raised in India and based in India -- to make it to the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
Mesmerised by the cinematic kitsch of Mumbai's underbelly, Americans are seeking palliatives to the horror stories tumbling out of the Byzantine world of investment banking.
Mumbai-based Longines has been choreographing for 15 years. He has won many dancing titles over the years. But his biggest reward may have been the moment Danny Boyle thanked him for his work in Slumdog Millionaire, on the Oscar stage. He spoke about his experiences.
Slumdog Millionaire bagged 10 Oscar nominations at the 81st annual Academy Awards.
The organisers of MAMI have decided not to screen the film fearing protests.
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