Rajkummar Rao Starrer Amit Masurkar’s Newton was India’s Official Entry for the Best Foreign Language category at the 90th Awards Academy, unfortunately, couldn’t make it to the final list of nominations.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAAS) have announced that the Amit Masurkar-directed black comedy is no longer a part of the nine-film line-up which has advanced to the next round of voting.
The 9 films that are a part of Oscars 2018 are:
A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
In the Fade (Germany)
On Body and Soul (Hungary)
Foxtrot (Israel)
The Insult (Lebanon)
Loveless (Russia)
Felicite (Senegal)
The Wound (South Africa)
The Square (Sweden)
No Bollywood film has ever won an Oscar to date. The last Indian film that made it to the final five in the Best Foreign Film category list was Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan in 2001.
Mother India (1958) and Salaam Bombay (1989) are the other two Indian movies to have made it to the top five.
Well, this is a sad news for India to not be a part of Oscar again.
