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The 91st Academy Awards took place in Los Angeles yesterday, the show opened with a performance by Queen and Adam Lambert. The Oscars this year has been led by a number of controversies most of which rose from the Academy announcing various decisions and going back on them immediately. First, it was the Best Popular Film category, which many thought was formed so that the Academy would not have to give Best Picture to Black Panther. After the backlash, the Academy’s response was quick and the category was removed. After so many controversies finally, the award show happened.
And this year India won the award for Best Documentary (Short subject) with: Period. End of Sentence. Award-winning filmmaker Rayka Zehtabchi has directed the short film, while Indian producer Guneet Monga’s Sikhya Entertainment has produced it.
It is a film based on menstruation, set in rural India. The film came into being as a part of The Pad Project, started by students at the Oakwood School in Los Angeles and their teacher Melissa Berton.
Zehtabchi after winning the award said: “I am not crying because I am on my period or anything. I can’t believe a film on menstruation won an Oscar.”
Best Picture, the biggest award in Oscar was taken home by Green Book. Which was also the biggest surprise of the night. Rami Malek, won The Best Actor award while Best Actress was bagged by Olivia Colman.
Here is the complete winner’s list:
BEST PICTURE – Green Book
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE – Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE – Olivia Colman, The Favorite
DIRECTING – Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE – Mahershala Ali, Green Book
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE – Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING – Vice | Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia Dehaney
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM – Roma | Mexico; Alfonso Cuarón
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE) – Black Panther, Ludwig Goransson
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG) – “Shallow” | Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT) – Period. End Of Sentence. | Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED) – Bao | Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION) – Skin | Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE) – Free Solo | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes, and Shannon Dill