'All We Imagine As Light' released in India on 22 November, has been having a great week worldwide, receiving many accolades.
Published Dec 10, 2024 | 10:38 AM ⚊ Updated Dec 10, 2024 | 12:30 PM
'All We Imagine As Light' at the Golden Globes. (Instagram)
Payal Kapadia and her film All We Imagine As Light has secured two nominations at the prestigious Golden Globes Awards— Best Motion Picture in a non-English language category and Best Director category.
The 2025 Golden Globe Awards ceremony is expected to be held on 5 January 2025 in Los Angeles.
The film is set to compete alongside Emilia Perez, The Girl With The Needle, I’m Still Here, The Seed of The Sacred Fig and Vermiglio.
Meanwhile, the director is 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.
Payal Kapadia’s film speaks about the lives of three working-class women from Kerala, working in Mumbai.
All We Imagine as Light won the Grand Prix Award at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, which is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d’Or, during the closing ceremony of the 77th edition.
In a statement, Payal said: “I’m deeply honoured by this nomination and grateful to the HFPA for this recognition. This is a celebration of everyone who worked so passionately on the film. To everyone in India, All We Imagine as Light is still in theatres—please go watch it and support us!”
Congratulations to the 82nd #GoldenGlobes nominees for Best Director Motion Picture:
✨ JACQUES AUDIARD | EMILIA PÉREZ
✨ SEAN BAKER | ANORA
✨ EDWARD BERGER | CONCLAVE
✨ BRADY CORBET | THE BRUTALIST
✨ CORALIE FARGEAT | THE SUBSTANCE
✨ PAYAL KAPADIA | ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT pic.twitter.com/gTtCCMUCTp— Golden Globes (@goldenglobes) December 9, 2024
Congratulations to the 82nd #GoldenGlobes nominees for Best Non-English Language Motion Picture:
✨ ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT | USA / FRANCE / INDIA
✨ EMILIA PÉREZ | FRANCE
✨ THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE | POLAND / SWEDEN / DENMARK
✨ I’M STILL HERE | BRAZIL
✨ THE SEED OF THE… pic.twitter.com/xzfsib2iov— Golden Globes (@goldenglobes) December 9, 2024
The film released in India on 22 November, has been having a great week worldwide, receiving many accolades.
Sight and Sound magazine has named All We Imagine As Light the best film of 2024. It has also won Best Film Not in the English Language at the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards.
On Wednesday, the film was named the Best International Film at the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC).
Apart from this, All We Imagine As Light on Monday also won the Best International Feature trophy at the reputed Gotham Awards 2024.
The filmmaker Payal Kapadia is also set to receive the prestigious Spirit of Cinema Award 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.
(Edited by Sumavarsha Kandula)
