A still from the film Court
Regional films
Court,
Jalam,
RangiTaranga and
Nachom-ia Kumpasar, which were vying for a spot in different categories of the upcoming 88th Academy Awards, couldn't make it to the nominations' list this year.
The nominees for the 88th Academy Awards were announced here on Thursday by Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, actor John Krasinski and filmmakers Guillermo del Toro and Ang Lee.
Filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane's Marathi film
Court was earlier out of the Best Foreign Language Film category of the prestigious awards gala, losing its battle against films like
Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia),
A War (Denmark),
Mustang (France),
Son of Saul (Hungary), and
Theeb (Jordan), hopes were high from
Jalam,
RangiTaranga and
Nachom-ia Kumpasar, which were competing in categories including Best Original Song and Best Original Score.
However, none of them were able to make it to the Oscar nominations.
Malayalam movie
Jalam and Indo-Australian film
Salt Bridge, which were included in the long list of the Best Original Song category, have been dropped from the nominations list as well. Both the films, along with Konkani movie
Nachom-ia Kumpasar, were amongst 112 films that were contending for a spot in the Best Original Score category.
They lost their chance to
The Hateful Eight, Sicario, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Carol and
Bridge of Spies.
India has never won an Oscar, even though
Mother India, Salaam Bombay! and
Lagaan were nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category in different years.
Though none of the Indian films could make it to the nominations list of the prestigious awards, Indian-American Pixar artist and director Sanjay Patel's animated short film Sanjay's
Super Team managed to get nominated in the Best Animated Short Film category.
It is up against Gabriel Osorio's
Bear Story, Don Hertzfeldt's
World of Tomorrow, Richard Williams's
Prologue and
We Can't Live Without Cosmos, directed by Konstantin Bronzit.
The 88th Oscars will be held on February 28 at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.