Rajamouli’s RRR bags 5 nominations at Critics Choice Awards

The nominations include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Song, and Best Visual Effects.

ByPTI

Published Dec 15, 2022 | 12:24 PM ⚊UpdatedDec 15, 2022 | 12:24 PM

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'RRR' bagged 5 nominations at Critics Choice Awards. (RRRMovie/Twitter)

Telugu film director SS Rajamouli’s period action film RRR continued its dream run by snagging five nominations at the 28th annual Critics Choice Awards, to be held in Los Angeles in January 2023.

Starring Ram Charan and Jr NTR, the movie is also nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film, Best Song for Telugu track “Naatu Naatu“, and Best Visual Effects categories.

The nominations were announced by the Los Angeles-based Critics Choice Association on its official website.

The makers of RRR thanked the jury in a statement shared on the film’s official Twitter page.

“#RRRMovie has been nominated in 5 categories for the prestigious @CriticsChoice Awards. Thanking the Jury for recognising #RRR. #CriticsChoiceAwards,” the post read.

Other best picture nominees are: Avatar: The Way of Water, Babylon, The Banshees of Inisherin, Elvis, Everything Everywhere At Once, The Fabelmans, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Tar, Top Gun: Maverick, and Women Talking.

Best director

RRR director SS Rajamouli will compete with James Cameron (Avatar: The Way of Water), Damien Chazelle (Babylon), Todd Field (Tar), Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere At Once), Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin), Sarah Polley (Women Talking), Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Woman King), and Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans) in the Best Director category.

Best foreign language film

For the Best Foreign Language Film, other contenders are All Quiet on the Western Front, Decision To Leave, Argentina, 1985, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths and Close.

Best song

Other nominees in the Best Song category are “Carolina” (Where The Crawdads Sing), “Ciao Papa” (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), “Hold My Hand” (Top Gun: Maverick), “Lift Me Up” (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) and “New Body Rhumba” (White Noise).

Best visual effects

Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Batman, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Everything Everywhere At Once are also part of the Best Visual Effects category line-up.

2 Golden Globe nominations

On Monday, 12 December, RRR scooped two Golden Globe nominations – Best Picture – Non-English and Best Song for “Naatu Naatu”.

“Naatu Naatu” has been composed by MM Keeravaani and penned by Kala Bhairava and Rahul Sipligunj.

Billed as a pan-India film, RRR follows a pre-independence fictional story woven around two real-life Indian revolutionaries — Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem — in the 1920s.

Related: RRR snags 2 Golden Globe nominations. What are its chances?

The film released worldwide in March in five languages — Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi.

Also featuring Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn in key roles, RRR emerged as a massive box office success even overseas with reported earnings of ₹1,200 crore.

The ceremony for the Critics Choice Awards will be held on 15 January 2023 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

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