Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light also scored a nomination in the Best Motion Picture in a Non-English Language category. Payal Kapadia scored a historic nomination in the Best Director category for All We Imagine As Light. The acclaimed film was also nominated in the Best Motion Picture in a Non-English Language category. The nominations for the 82nd Golden Globe Awards were announced on December 9, by Mindy Kaling and Morris Chestnut.
This is the first time that a director from India has been nominated in the Best Director category at the Golden Globe Awards. The other nominees include Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez; Sean Baker, Anora; Edward Berger for Conclave; Brady Corbet for The Brutalist; and Coralie Fargeat for The Substance.
All We Imagine As Light was recently named the best international film by the New York Film Critics Circle award as well as the Gotham Awards. It was also selected as the best film of the year by the prestigious Sight and Sound magazine, which also voted Anora, La chimera, Dahomey and Hard Truths amongst its top five.
Starring Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha and Chhaya Kadam, Payal Kapadia’s film explores love, longing and loneliness in the bustling city of Mumbai through three women, two Malayali nurses — Prabha and Anu — and their friend Parvati. The film’s awards run began after it won the prestigious Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year in May.
All We Imagine As Light is being distributed in the US by Janus Films and Sideshow. Rana Daggubati’s Spirit Media released the film across India. The film was not picked up by the selection committee in India to represent the country in the Oscars. The selection committee picked Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Ladies instead.
