Oscars 2023: Naatu Naatu from RRR wins Best Original Song; ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ wins Best Documentary Short category
- Also known as the 95th Academy Awards, the OSCARS 2023 was held on March 12, 2023, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in Los Angeles to honor films released in 2022.
- Two Indian films won awards at the Oscars 2023. They are given below:
1. Naatu Naatu (Best Original Song)
- Film Name – RRR
- Music – M. M. Keeravani
- Lyrics – Chandrabose
- Director – S. S. Rajamouli
- Producer – D. V. V. Danayya
2. The Elephant Whisperers (Best Documentary Short Subject)
- Director – Kartiki Gonsalves
- Producer – Douglas Blush; Kartiki Gonsalves; Guneet Monga; Achin Jain
Complete List of Winners of Oscars 2023
- Best Picture : Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Best Director : Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Best Actor : Brendan Fraser (The Whale as Charlie)
- Best Actress : Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once as Evelyn Quan Wang)
- Best Supporting Actor : Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once as Waymond Wang)
- Best Supporting Actress : Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once as Deirdre Beaubeirdre)
- Best Original Screenplay : Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert)
- Best Adapted Screenplay : Women Talking (Sarah Polley; based on the novel by Miriam Toews)
- Best Animated Feature Film : Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar, and Alex Bulkley)
- Best International Feature Film : All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany); Director – Edward Berger
- Best Documentary Feature : Navalny – Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller, and Shane Boris
- Best Documentary Short Subject : The Elephant Whisperers
- Best Live Action Short Film : An Irish Goodbye – Tom Berkeley and Ross White
- Best Animated Short Film : The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud
- Best Original Score : All Quiet on the Western Front – Volker Bertelmann
- Best Original Song : “Naatu Naatu” from RRR
- Best Sound : Top Gun: Maverick – Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon, and Mark Taylor
- Best Production Design : All Quiet on the Western Front – Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper
- Best Cinematography : All Quiet on the Western Front – James Friend
- Best Makeup and Hairstyling : The Whale – Adrien Morot, Judy Chin, and Anne Marie Bradley
- Best Costume Design : Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Ruth E. Carter
- Best Film Editing: Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Best Visual Effects : Avatar: The Way of Water