The film competed alongside Emilia Perez, The Girl With The Needle, I’m Still Here, The Seed of The Sacred Fig and Vermiglio. It lost out to Emilia Perez.
Published Jan 06, 2025 | 2:35 PM ⚊ Updated Jan 06, 2025 | 2:35 PM
A poster of the film 'All We Imagine As Light'. (X)
A couple of days after All We Imagine As Light got featured on the BAFTA longlist, the film and the director Payal Kapadia saw a setback at the Golden Globes awards held on Sunday night, 5 January, in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
The film was nominated in two categories— Best Non-English Language Film and Best Director (Motion Picture). Payal Kapadia was the first Indian director to be nominated for a Golden Globes.
The film competed alongside Emilia Perez, The Girl With The Needle, I’m Still Here, The Seed of The Sacred Fig and Vermiglio. It lost out to Emilia Perez.
Meanwhile, the director was nominated along with Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, Coralie Fargeat for The Substance, Edward Berger for Conclave, Jacques Audiard for Emilia Perez and Sean Baker for Anora. Brady Corbet won in the category.
At the BAFTA, it received three nods— Best Director, Original Screenplay and Best Film not in the English language.
Sight and Sound magazine has named All We Imagine As Light the best film of 2024. The film was named the Best International Film at the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC).
Apart from this, All We Imagine As Light also won the Best International Feature trophy at the reputed Gotham Awards 2024.
On 20 December, Payal Kapadia received the Spirit of Cinema Award from the Kerala government at the 29th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK).
Instituted at the 26th IFFK, the Spirit of Cinema Award celebrates filmmakers who use cinema to challenge oppression.
“All We Imagine As Light is a daring and sincere movie from Payal Kapadia that speaks about the lives of three working-class women in Mumbai. The movie is realistic to its core and is definitely a masterpiece,” our review read.
(Edited by Sumavarsha Kandula)
