India has not been lucky in the matters of winning an Oscar for the Best Foreign Film
India’s official entry Liar’s Dice is out of Oscars’ race after it failed to make the cut in the Academy’s shortlist in the best foreign film category.
Nine films advanced to the next round of voting in the category for the 87th Academy Awards out of 83 movies that had qualified in the category.
Liar’s Dice, a road drama about a tribal woman’s journey to find her missing husband, is the debut film of Geetu Mohandas. It stars Geetanjali Thapa and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in lead roles.
The shortlist will be winnowed down to five by specially invited committees in New York, Los Angeles and, for the first time, London from January 9-11, viewing three films each day and then casting their ballots.
India has never won an Oscar in the best foreign film category. The last Indian film that made it to the final five nominees was Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan for the 74th Academy awards in 2003.
Mother India and Salaam Bombay are the other two Indian films to have made it to the top five.
The 87th Academy awards will take place on February 22.
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