Delhi 6 may be Oscar Entry this year

Delhi-6 might be the only film in the race for the Best Foreign Language Film Award category of the Academy Awards.

Apparently as Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is so far the only film-maker who has recommended his film to Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association to be sent to the Film Federation of India for sending it as India's entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category.




The scarcity in the entries is largely being credited to the strike because of which very few movies saw a theatrical release. While the last date of submission is September 15, so far only Delhi-6 is the only film in the race so far.

Mandatory conditions for Oscar Entry in this category-
For a recommendation for the Oscars this year, a film should have been released or should be releasing between October 1, 2008 and September 30, 2009 and should have run for seven consecutive days at least.

Further no type of television or internet transmission of the film should have occurred at any time prior to the theatrical release. And the recording of the original dialogue track as well as the completed picture must be predominantly in a language or languages other than English.

IIFA Awards most popular now

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Over the span of ten years, IIFA Awards, International Indian Film Academy Awards are hosted annually for excellence in Indian cinema at an exciting international venue. Over the last ten years, the IIFAs have become India’s most prestigious film awards in taking Indian cinema to a global audience.

This year 2009, they were held in Macau, China.

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This year marks the 10th anniversary of the IIFA Awards and it’s also the year when Indian cinema and Indian film professionals have arrived on the world stage. Indians have won Oscar and British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) as numerous of global awards this year. Thanks to path breaking filmmakers like Danny Boyle and Megan Mylan.

The IIFA Awards are fast on their way to becoming the Oscar of Indian cinema.

IIFA 2009 Technical Awards Announced

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IIFA 2009 Technical Awards were recently announced and the winners
will be honoured at the Cotai Arena, The Venetian Macau, during the 10th IIFA weekend on June 13.

Ashutosh Gowariker's Jodhaa Akbar is continuing its success feat by
winning five out of the 14 awards in the International Indian Film
Academy's (IIFA) Technical awards category.

Aamir Khan starrer Ghajini came second winning three awards, a
statement issued by IIFA.Ghajini bagged the honours for Best Action
(Peter Heins and Stun Siva), Best Sound Recording (Resul Pookutty and
Amrit) and Best Visual Special effects (Prime Focus).

Oscar winner A R Rahman has won the trophy for the 'Best Background
score' for Jodha Akbar. The movie also won awards for Technical
excellence in best Costume design for Neeta Lulla, Best Editing for
Ballu Saluja, Best Art Direction for Nitin Desai and Best make up for
Madhav Kadam.

The winner in the Best Cinematography category was Jason West, while
Purple Haza clinched the Best Song Recording award for Rock On!!

The 'Desi Girl' beat all other dance numbers (Dostana) and won Farah
Khan the Best Choreography award, while Leslie Fernandes received the
Best Sound Re-recording trophy for 'Race'.

Manu Rishi won the Best Dialogue award for 'Oye Lucky Lucky Oye',
while Neeraj Pandey bagged the honours in the Best Screenplay category
for 'A Wednesday'.

Nominations for the popular categories have gone online and will be
open till the end of May.