Thursday 9 March 2023

Motion Content Group and Film Critics Guild announce the list of Nominations: 5th Edition of Critics’ Choice Awards


  • The 2023 edition recognizes and honours the best of talent in feature films, short films, and web series along with the nomination list for short films,  series and feature films

Mumbai, 9th March 2023: Motion Content Group, GroupM’s content investment, production, and distribution business in collaboration with Film Critics Guild and Vistas Media Capital had previously announced the 5th edition of the prestigious Critics’ Choice Awards. The awards recognize and honour the best of talent in feature films, short films, and web series every year. 

The Critics’ Choice is an esteemed body of reputed and credible critics from India that acknowledges cinematic work across languages, categories, and formats. Anupama Chopra (Chairperson), Stutee Ghosh (Vice Chairperson), Shomini Sen (Secretary), Ajay Brahmatmaj, Anmol Jamwal, Baradwaj Rangan, Bhawana Somaaya, Rohit Khilnani, Suhani Singh, Udita Jhunjhunwala amongst many others critics across print, radio, broadcast, digital are under this reputed body and they determine some of the best and most pathbreaking work done in cinema in the year.


Ashwin Padmanabhan, President – Trading, Investment and Partnerships, Group M India, said " We, along with the Film Critics Guild are excited to see such an overwhelming response for rewarding excellence across feature films, OTT series and short films produced in 2022.The Critics' Choice Awards is a testament to the evolving landscape of Indian entertainment industry and GroupM is proud to work with partner like Film Critics Guild and Vistas Media Capital to offer such a prestigious platform that recognizes and applauds exceptional talent across all formats in our country. As we enter the fifth edition, we look forward to celebrating the diverse and unique voices that have contributed to the growth of the industry and have set new benchmarks for storytelling." 

Anupama Chopra, Chairperson, Film Critics Guild said, “This year we received an overwhelming number of entries across short films, web series and features, it is heartening to see the quality of storytelling in India in every format. Viewing and shortening it down to our final nominations was no easy task, but we are proud to present the best of Indian short films, cinema, and web series at our upcoming Critics' Choice Awards 2023. Stay tuned to find out what the Critics loved most, and who takes home the Awards!”

Abhayanand Singh, Group CEO at Vistas Media Capital, said “Vistas Media congratulates all the nominees for a wonderful year of some great work done by each one of them and may the best one win.” 

Here we bring you the list of entire nominations that have been announced for the Critics’ Choice Awards 2023. 



Category : Short Film 

Best Short Film 

7 Star Dinosor Entertainment

Lalanna's Song

Little Wings

Nauha

The Silent Echo


Best Director

Vaishali Naik for 7 Star Dinosor Entertainment

Naveen Mu for Little Wings 

Pratham Khurana for Nauha 

Suyash Kamat for Sadabahar 

Suman Sen for The Silent Echo


Best Actor 

Rajesh Tailang for Hurdang 

Nitharsana C. Kalidoss for Little Wings 

Azhar Khan for Nauha 

Rony David Raj for Night Saloon 

Kunjikannan Master for Pottan



Best Actress 

Zoya Hussain for Bad Egg 

Amrita Puri for Clean 

Payel Rakshit for Footprints 

Shreya Dhanwanthary for Gray 

Nakshatra Indrajith for Lalanna's Song



Best Writing 

Vaishali Naik for 7 Star Dinosor Entertainment 

Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Parvin for Clean 

Varun Grover for Kiss 

Naveen Mu for Little Wings 

Lavina Khubchandani, Pratham Khurana for Nauha 



Best Cinematography 

Swati Jain for 7 Star Dinosor Entertainment

Kuldeep Mamania for Lalanna's Song

Saravanamaruthu Soundarapandi, Meenakshi Soman for Little Wings 

Nikhil Pires for Nauha 

Xohaer Musavvir for The Silent Echo 


Category: Feature Films 

Best Film 

Ariyippu 

Bhoothakaalam

Gangubai Kathiawadi

Gargi

Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon

Kadaisi Vivasayi

Pada

RRR

Seththumaan

Thallumaala



Best Director 

Anamika Haksar for Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon

M. Manikandan for Kadaisi Vivasayi

Vasan Bala for Monica, O My Darling 

Rajat Kapoor for RK/RKay 

S. S. Rajamouli for RRR 



Best Writing 

Gautham Ramachandran, Hariharan Raju for Gargi 

Anamika Haksar, Lokesh Jain for Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon 

M. Manikandan for Kadaisi Vivasayi 

Yogesh Chandekar for Monica, O My Darling 

Rajat Kapoor for RK/RKay 



Best Actor 

Kunchacko Boban for Ariyippu 

Rajkummar Rao for Badhaai Do 

Rishab Shetty for Kantara 

Karthi for Ponniyin Selvan 1 

Tovino Thomas for Thallumaala 



Best Actress 

Nithya Menen for 19(1)(a) 

Revathi for Bhoothakaalam 

Alia Bhatt for Gangubai Kathiawadi

Sai Pallavi for Gargi

Shefali Shah for Jalsa



Best Supporting Actor 

Vijay Sethupathi for 19(1)(a)

Jaideep Ahlawat for An Action Hero

Vijay Sethupathi for Kadaisi Vivasayi

Shine Tom Chacko for Thallumaala

Fahadh Faasil for Vikram 



Best Supporting Actress 

Sheeba Chaddha for Badhaai Do 

Shefali Shah for Darlings

Radhika Apte for Monica, O My Darling

Swastika Mukherjee for Qala

Shraddha Srinath for Witness 



Best Editing 

Atanu Mukherjee for Monica, O My Darling

Suresh Pai for RK/RKay 

  1. Sreekar Prasad for RRR

Nishadh Yusuf for Thallumaala 

Philomin Raj for Vikram 



Best Cinematography 

Sudeep Chatterjee for Gangubai Kathiawadi 

Saumyananda Sahi for Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon 

Swapnil S. Sonawane for Monica, O My Darling 

Ravi Varman for Ponniyin Selvan 1 

Siddharth Diwan for Qala 



Category : Web Series 


Best Series 


Delhi Crime Season 2

Mai

Rocket Boys

Suzhal: The Vortex 

Vadhandhi: The Fable of Velonie 



Best Writing 


Mayank Tewari, Shubrha Swarup, Vidit Tripathi, Enzia Mirza for Delhi Crime Season 2 

Atul Mongia, Tamal Sen, Amita Vyas for Mai

Kausar Munir, Abhay Pannu for Rocket Boys 

Pushkar-Gayathri for Suzhal: The Vortex  

Andrew Louis for Vadhandhi: The Fable of Velonie 



Best Actor 


Jaideep Ahlawat for Broken News 

Avinash Tiwary for Khakee: The Bihar Chapter

Jim Sarbh for Rocket Boys

Nagraj Manjule for Unpaused: Naya Safar 

SJ Suryah for Vadhandhi: The Fable of Velonie 



Best Actress 


Shriya Pilgaonkar for Broken News 

Huma Qureshi for Maharani Season 2 

Sakshi Tanwar for Mai 

Fatima Sana Sheikh for Modern Love: Mumbai 

Geetanjali Kulkarni for Unpaused: Naya Safar 



Best Supporting Actor 


Abhilash Thapliyal for Faadu 

Amit Sial for Maharani Season 2

Prashant Narayan for Mai

Faisal Malik for Panchayat Season 2 

Vivek Prasanna for Vadhandhi: The Fable of Velonie 



Best Supporting Actress 


Tillotama Shome for Delhi Crime Season 2 

Seema Pahwa for Jamtara Season 2

Kani Kusruti for Maharani Season 2

Yeo Yann Yann for Modern Love: Mumbai

Sriya Reddy for Suzhal: The Vortex  



About Film Critics Guild 

The Film Critics Guild, India’s first registered association of film critics, is a geographically diverse cross-section of professionals who have come together to streamline the ethical and quality standards for film criticism in the country. With India’s most credible critics — representing print, radio, broadcast, and the web — at its helm, the Guild is dedicated to maintaining the highest level of integrity amongst its members and evaluating works of cinema that stand apart in their storytelling. 


About Vistas Media Capital 

Vistas Media Capital is a media content and technology company, headquartered in Singapore, that operates and invests in ventures across the ecosystem of the global media and entertainment industry. The businesses and venture investments are diversified across Global Content Production and Distribution, Streaming Platforms across video and music, Animation & VFX Studio, Blockchain Technology and NFT (Non-Fungible Token), Gaming, Digital Media Marketing, Events and Award IPs. 

About Motion Content Group 

Motion Content Group is a global content investment and rights management company that meets the market demand for new economic models for premium content across the entertainment and media marketplace. This is achieved by investing and partnering with the world’s leading talent, producers, and distributors to fund, develop, produce, and distribute premium content to help drive and support editorially and commercially vibrant, premium content networks and platforms for the global benefit of our content partners and advertisers. Motion Content Group India’s IP includes the YAARI Series, Critics Choice Awards, Hello Sago, and others. Headquartered in London and Los Angeles, the business currently operates in 26 countries worldwide with Motion’s broad range of award-winning programming distributed globally. Motion Content Group is part of GroupM, the world’s leading full-service media investment management operation, a WPP company. 

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