India shone at the 95th Academy Awards as did Everything Everywhere All At Once. Naatu Naatu from RRR won Best Original Song, The Elephant Whisperers won Best Documentary Short. Deepika Padukone, stunning in black Louis Vuitton, attended as a presenter - she introduced the live performance of Naatu Naatu in which Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava sang, and Lauren Gottlieb danced. Deepika is the third Indian to present at the Oscasr after Persis Khambatta and Priyanka Chopra. Team RRR – including director SS Rajamouli and actors Ram Charan and Jr NTR - were at the awards, Everything Everywhere All At Once won seven of its 11 Oscar nominations. The star of the film Michelle Yeoh won Best Actress, making history as the first Asian winner of the award. Her co-stars Ke Huy Quan, who has swept this year's award season, and Jamie Lee Curtis won Best Supporting Actor and Actress respectively. All three actors are first time winners. Everything Everywhere All At Once also won Best Picture, Best Director for the Daniels and Best Film Editing. All Quiet On The Western Front from Germany was also a big winner with four Oscars including Best International Feature Film..
Here are the Highlights from Oscars 2023:
The king has spoken - see Shah Rukh Khan's tweet:
Chiranjeevi also congratulated the team of The Elephant Whisperers, which won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short
"If anyone commits a felony you will get the Best Actor awards," quipped host Jimmy Kimmel before adding that a crisis team would make that very unlikely (cough WILL SMITH SLAPGATE cough)