India's 'RRR' bags one award, loses other at Golden Globes 2023

SS Rajamoul's magnum opus loses the Best Picture Non-English award but manages to bag a win for Best Song, Naatu Naatu

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India's RRR loses the Best Picture Non-English award at the Golden Globes 2023 but manages to bag a win in the Best Song category for their number, Naatu Naatu. SS Rajamouli's magnum opus, which is based on the lives of real-life fighters Komaram Bheem and Alluri Sitarama Raju, has become a worldwide sensation due to its stellar performances and action-packed scenes. 

Amongst many, the film stars Ram Charan, Alia Bhatt, Ajay Devgn, and Shriya Saran. For the eventful night, younger Elvis star Austin Butler and veteran actress Michelle Yeoh took residence high film awards at the 80th Golden Globes ceremony on Tuesday as Hollywood returned and embraced a present that had been knocked off tv by a variety and ethics scandal.

Butler, 31, was named finest actor in a film drama for enjoying rock music legend Elvis Presley and appeared overwhelmed to simply accept the dignity in entrance of lots of the high names in present enterprise.

“I am on this room with all my heroes,” Butler mentioned. “I can not consider I am right here. Brad (Pitt), I really like you. Quentin (Tarantino), I printed out the script of Pulp Fiction after I was 12 years outdated.”

Yeoh, honoured for her main function in the dimension-hopping motion film Everything Everywhere All at Once, took the stage and mentioned she was “simply going to face right here and take this all in.”

“Hollywood was a dream come true till I got here right here,” the Malaysian actor of Chinese language descent added, noting that she was referred to as a “minority” and requested if she may converse English early in her profession. Forty years later, “it’s been a tremendous journey and unbelievable combat to be right here at present, however, I believe it’s been value it,” she mentioned.

Colin Farrell received lead actor in a film musical or comedy for portraying Padraic Suilleabhain, a person making an attempt to restore a soured friendship, in the midnight Irish comedy The Banshees of Inisherin. Farrell thanked his fellow solid members, together with Jenny the Donkey.

Celebrities and broadcaster NBC deserted the 2022 Globes due to moral lapses on the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation (HFPA), the group that palms out the awards.

A bigger, extra numerous membership and different adjustments by the HFPA persuaded lots of the greatest film and TV stars to help this 12 months’ ceremony, which offers publicity for winners and nominees and infrequently boosts their possibilities at the Oscars.

The present unfolded largely because it had in years previous, apart from a biting monologue from comic and host Jerrod Carmichael. “I am right here as a result of I am black. In the future, you make mint tea at your residence. The following day you are invited to be the Black face of an embattled white group,” he mentioned on the ceremony, which was broadcast reside on Comcast Corp’s NBC community and streamed on Peacock.

Different honourees included Black Panther actress Angela Bassett, who received a supporting actress award for enjoying Queen Ramonda in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

“We confirmed to the world what Black unity, management and love appear like past, behind and in entrance of the digicam,” Bassett mentioned as she held her trophy.

The flashy Elvis biopic and sci-fi blockbuster Avatar: The Means of Water had been vying for the highest honor of finest drama movie in opposition to Steven Spielberg’s coming-of-age film The Fabelmans and Tar, starring Cate Blanchett as a conniving orchestra conductor.

Top Gun: Maverick additionally was within the combine, although the army motion movie’s possibilities had been probably damaged by star Tom Cruise returning his Globe statues in protest in 2021, awards specialists mentioned. Cruise was reacting to a Los Angeles Occasions investigation that exposed the HFPA had no Black journalists in its ranks and accused members of soliciting favors from celebrities and film studios.

In TV classes, Abbott Elementary creator and star Quinta Brunson was honoured as the finest actress in a musical or comedy. Roughly 200 journalists and others from the worldwide movie trade voted on this 12 months’ Globes. Amongst these voters, practically 52% are racially and ethnically numerous, together with 10% who are Black, in accordance with the HFPA.

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