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Golden Globe Awards 2025: Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light loses Best Foreign Language Film award to Emilia Perez

Golden Globes 2025: All We Imagine As Light joined the illustrious list of Gandhi, Salaam Bombay, Monsoon Wedding, and RRR as India's nominations in the Best Non-English Feature category.

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Golden Globes Awards 2025: Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light got nominated in the Best Foreign Language film category.

It was 1982 when Richard Attenborough made his seminal film, Gandhi, which received critical and commercial acclaim, and a whole lot of awards, including the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language film. After that in 1988, Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay made it to the final five, but was pipped to the top spot by Billie August’s Pelle The Conqueror (Denmark). Then, in 2001, it was Mira Nair, who again knocked at the doors of the Golden Globes with her Monsoon Wedding, which lost to Danis Tanovic’s film, No Man’s Land. And in 2022, it was the year of SS Rajamouli’s RRR, which missed out on the top prize that was taken home by Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985. It has been 43 years since an Indian film won a Golden Globe for Best Non-English feature, and that could have changed with Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light in the 2025 Golden Globes. However, the film lost the award to Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez.

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All We Imagine As Light, which has been a favourite in the awards circuit across the globe has been winning left, right, and centre. However, it was a really tough nomination pool as All We Imagine As Light was competing with films like Emilia Perez, The Girl With The Needle, I’m Still Here, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, and Vermiglio. Almost all of these films came to Golden Globes with a stellar record at the various awards constituted across the globe.

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While the world seems to be celebrating All We Imagine as Light at every given opportunity, it faced a major heartburn back home due to the limited theatrical release, and Film Federation of India’s decision to not send the film as the country’s official submission to this year’s Oscars. Incidentally, their choice of Laapataa Ladies failed to make the final shortlist.

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This win (recognition) is as an important shot in the arm for filmmakers like Payal, and films like All We Imagine As Light, because it opens new avenues for collaborative works, and an exchange of global-level talents from the country. Even All We Imagine As Light is a co-production between France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Italy.

Starring Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Anand Sami, and Hridhu Haroon, All We Imagine As Light is currently streaming on Disney + Hotstar, and has been receiving rave reviews for its sensitive and poignant portrayal of working women in the bustling metropolitan city of Mumbai,Golden Globe Awards 2025

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