Filmmaker SS Rajamouli’s magnum opus ‘RRR’ has been named one of the ten best films of this year by the National Board of Review. The annual awards are seen as an accurate predictor of Oscar’s success.
The Ram Charan and Jr NTR starrer has become a cult hit in the West. The film was a box office blockbuster worldwide but wasn’t selected as India’s official entry to the Academy Awards. However, owing to a concentrated campaign with Rajamouli as its face, ‘RRR’ has emerged as a frontrunner for the Oscars.
Tom Cruise starrer ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, directed by Joseph Kosinski, is this year’s best film, according to the National Board of Review.
Here’s a list of the other major winners:
Best Director: Steven Spielberg, ‘The Fabelmans’
Best Actor: Colin Farrell, ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
Best Actress: Michelle Yeoh, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’
Best Supporting Actor: Brendan Gleeson, ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
Best Supporting Actress: Janelle Monáe, ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’
Best Original Screenplay: Martin McDonagh, ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
Best Adapted Screenplay: Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell, ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
Breakthrough Performance: Danielle Deadwyler, ‘Till’
Breakthrough Performance: Gabriel LaBelle, ‘The Fabelmans’
Best Directorial Debut: Charlotte Wells, ‘Aftersun’
Best Animated Feature: Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Best International Film: Close, from Belgium
Best Documentary: Sr.
Best Ensemble: Women Talking
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Claudio Miranda, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
NBR Freedom of Expression Awards: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Argentina, 1985
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