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.
No one will be able to match up to his iconic sense of style!
Entertainment may be its raison d'etre but the tears brought about by cinema are no less significant.
A look at the winners of the 89th Annual Academy Awards.
The best films are not necessarily the most successful -- that would be another list altogether -- although sometimes quality and commerce do converge.
The 10-member jury was headed by filmmaker Vipul Shah. The awards were announced by jury member Dharam Gulati.
'A Colourful World is for every child, telling them that like the different coloured crayons in a box, they should also appreciate their differing identities, shine and live peacefully with other human beings in our colourful world.'
'Pancham was way ahead of his times. Picture chale na chale, RD's music was damn good.'
Emraan Hashmi and Esha Gupta have seen failure and come out stronger.
Birdman. Boyhood. The Grand Budapest Hotel...
It was heartening to see so many women -- young and old, many in hijab and burqa shaking their bodies, raising their arms and singing with complete abandonment.
Seventy-six is not an age to be plowing a lonely furrow in the heartless electoral fields of India, especially in Rajasthan, given the heat in summer, but Jaswant Singh, the expelled Bharatiya Janata Party veteran, is not exactly alone, says Rediff.com's Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
Aseem Chhabra picks the scenes that left him impressed this year.
Do you know Ashaji crooned a seductive night club song, Zooby Zooby Je L'aime Vous for An Evening In Paris?
Aseem Chhabra gives us the top films that enriched his year.
As much as we enjoy and write reams and reams about our amazement at the Kantara climax, 30 years on from now, will we remember these portions more fondly or the ones where Shiva is simply hanging out with his friends, mulls Rohit Sathish Nair.
Puneeth fan M D Riti lists five films that she consider to be amongst his best.
Haider is a remarkable achievement and one of the most powerful political films we've ever made, a bonafide masterpiece that throbs with intensity and purpose.
In a year of overwrought spectacles that slavishly sucked up to the audience, I found refuge in a bunch of 'mainstream' Indian films that espoused such old-fashioned values as dedication to craft, close observation and casual bravery, explains Sreehari Nair.
'The way the winners react and the speeches they deliver.' 'That is where the fun happens, when the actors and other winners let down their guard, challenge the system, talk about issues that should matter to us,' says Aseem Chhabra.
Will Jaan Kumar Sanu make it to the top 5 or lift the coveted Bigg Boss trophy?
HUL is keen to redefine the way in which brands tell their stories to consumers.
Medieval heroes, cursed heroes, monsters, scamsters, there's no dearth of action on OTT this week, Sukanya Verma tells us.
'If you look at its melody, it's nothing.'
'No one's comparing and everyone's taking the song as mine... that's a battle won.'
'Much as I feel on top of the world after being a part of a special series like Jubilee, I would say my biggest achievement so far has been spreading happiness around.'
Aseem Chhabra presents his list of 10 international films that mattered to him, stories that he connected with and characters that gave him a better understanding of the human condition.
Aditya Chopra may be a household name in India, but few have seen his face, recognise his voice or know the brain behind the business outside his tight inner circle. The Romantics makes sure it has its own to brag about when he, finally, appears before the camera, notes Sukanya Verma.
'Today, music directors do not work on a song that turns out to be the biggest hit of the year.' 'Their main focus is on creating a song which becomes an instant hit.' 'Whether the audience remembers that song after a couple of months or not, that does not concern them anymore.'
It's worth a watch, Aarush S promises.
Doctor G blends mirth and meaning, observes Sukanya Verma. Doctor G Review.
Brahmastra is a work of star-struck ambition and high-octane energy whose razzle-dazzle hits many happy notes, observes Sukanya Verma.
'If you are mature and haven't done terrible things to each other, love doesn't have to go away.'
Ananya, Amitabh, Arjun stroll down memory lane...
Coolie No 1 is a cheap comedy for silly people, asserts Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
Sukanya Verma presents a playlist of 100 Lata Mangeshkar songs from different decades of Hindi films -- songs that make me sing, smile, sob and sigh.
On the actress' fourth death anniversary, Subhash K Jha selects his favourites.
After 26 years, Aditya Chopra is set to direct DDLJ again and it will mark his debut as a director on Broadway.
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