Big News! India-Set 'To Kill A Tiger' Gets Nominated In 'Best Documentary Feature Category' At Oscars 2024
Oscars 2024: 'To Kill A Tiger', set in a small village in India, has scored a nomination in the Best Documentary Feature category.
There is some massive news! 'To Kill A Tiger', set in a small village in India, has been nominated at Oscars 2024 in the Best Documentary Feature Film category. The other nominations in this category include 'The Eternal Memory', 'The People's President', 'Four Daughters', and '20 Days In Mariupol'. For the unversed, 'To Kill A Tiger' has been directed by Delhi-born Nisha Pahuja, who is now based in Toronto.
'To Kill A Tiger' has been produced by Cornelia Principe and David Oppenheim.
For the unversed, 'To Kill A Tiger' revolves around a family in Jharkhand, and how they are campaigning for justice after their teenage daughter was brutally raped.
The film had first premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2022. At the festival, the Documentary also won the Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film.
“Ranjit goes to the police, and the men are arrested. But Ranjit’s relief is short-lived, as the villagers and their leaders launch a sustained campaign to force the family to drop the charges. A cinematic documentary, ‘To Kill a Tiger’ follows Ranjit’s uphill battle to find justice for his child,” the official website of the movie states as the synopsis.
Oscars 2024 will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel for the fourth time, and the event will be held on March 10 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
In India, the ceremony will be broadcast during the early hours of March 11 due to the time difference.
The nominations for Oscars 2024 were announced on Tuesday. As expected, the nomination list is dominated by Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' and the film has landed nods in 13 categories.
Films like 'American Fiction', 'Oppenheimer', 'Killers of the Flower Moon', 'Anatomy of a Fall', 'Barbie', 'The Holdovers', 'Maestro', 'Past Lives', 'The Zone Of Interest' and 'Poor Things' have been nominated in the Best Picture category.
Christopher Nolan and Martin Scorsese have scored nominations in the Best Director category for 'Oppenheimer' and 'Killers of the Flower Moon'.
