Oscar Best Picture eligibility criteria explained
With the Academy’s list of 207 eligible Best Picture contenders now out, here’s a look at what it takes for a film to be eligible for the Oscars’ top prize, and why some films make the cut while others fall short Updated - January 08, 2025 04:54 pm IST Ayaan Paul Chowdhury 1 PRINT For Indians keeping a keen eye on the Academy Awards, the 2025 Oscars race is already rife with excitement. Six Indian films were found eligible for the Best Picture race, including Kanguva , Girls Will Be Girls , Santosh , Swatantrya Veer Savarkar , Putul , Aadujeevitham: The Goat Life and Payal Kapadia’s Cannes-lauded All We Imagine As Light (AWIAL). Conspicuous by its absence (yet again) was Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Ladies — India’s official Oscar submission this year that only recently missed out on qualifying for Best International Feature. Oscars 2025: Suriya’s ‘Kanguva’ joins 6 other Indian films in the contenders’ list...