Baahubali
helmer
SS
Rajamouli's
RRR,
featuring
Ram
Charan
and
Jr
NTR
in
the
lead
roles,
continues
its
global
dominance
as
the
period
drama
gets
nominated
for
Critics
Choice
Awards.
On
Wednesday
(December
14),
the
film
secured
five
nominations
at
the
28th
annual
Critics
Choice
Awards
including
Best
Picture
and
Best
Director.
Interestingly,
it
recently
bagged
two
Golden
Globe
nominations
as
well.
At
Critics
Choice
Awards,
the
film
has
also
been
nominated
in
the
Best
Foreign
Language
Film,
Best
Song
for
Telugu
track
Naatu
Naatu,
and
Best
Visual
Effects
categories.
The
Los
Angeles-based
Critics
Choice
Association
announced
the
nominations
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:
The
Banshees
of
Inisherin,
Avatar:
The
Way
of
Water,
Babylon,
Everything
Everywhere
At
Once,
Elvis,
The
Fabelmans,
Glass
Onion:
A
Knives
Out
Mystery,
Everything
Everywhere
At
Once,
Tar,
Top
Gun:
Maverick,
and
Women
Talking.
RRR
helmer
SS
Rajamouli
will
compete
with
James
Cameron
(Avatar:
The
Way
of
Water),
Todd
Field
(Tar),
Damien
Chazelle
(Babylon),
Daniel
Kwan
and
Daniel
Scheinert
(Everything
Everywhere
At
Once),
Sarah
Polley
(Women
Talking),
Martin
McDonagh
(The
Banshees
of
Inisherin),
Gina
Prince-Bythewood
(The
Woman
King),
and
Steven
Spielberg
(The
Fabelmans)
in
the
Best
Director
category.
For
the
Best
Foreign
Language
Film,
other
contenders
are
All
Quiet
on
the
Western
Front,
Argentina,
1985,
Decision
To
Leave,
Bardo,
False
Chronicle
of
a
Handful
of
Truths
and
Close.
Other
nominees
in
the
Best
Song
category
are
Hold
My
Hand
(Top
Gun:
Maverick),
Carolina
(Where
The
Crawdads
Sing),
Lift
Me
Up
(Black
Panther:
Wakanda
Forever),
Ciao
Papa
(Guillermo
del
Toro's
Pinocchio),
and
New
Body
Rhumba
(White
Noise).
Top
Gun:
Maverick,
The
Batman,
Avatar:
The
Way
of
Water,
Black
Panther:
Wakanda
Forever,
and
Everything
Everywhere
At
Once
are
also
part
of
the
Best
Visual
Effects
category
line-up.
RRR,
on
Monday,
earned
two
Golden
Globe
nominations
--
Best
Picture
-
Non-English
and
Best
Song
for
Naatu
Naatu.
For
the
unversed,
Naatu
Naatu
has
been
penned
by
Kala
Bhairava
and
Rahul
Sipligunj
while
MM
Keeravaani
has
composed
it.
Billed
as
a
pan-India
film,
RRR
revolves
around
a
pre-independence
fictional
story
woven
around
two
real-life
Indian
revolutionaries
--
Alluri
Sitarama
Raju
and
Komaram
Bheem
--
in
the
1920s.
The
film
was
released
worldwide
in
March
this
year
in
five
languages
--
Tamily,
Telugu,
Kannada,
Malayalam,
and
Hindi.
Co-starring
Bollywood
stars
Alia
Bhatt
and
Ajay
Devgn
in
prominent
parts,
RRR
was
a
massive
box
office
success
even
overseas
with
reported
earnings
of
Rs
1,200
crore.
Coming
back
to
Critics
Choice
Awards,
the
ceremony
will
be
held
on
January
15
at
the
Fairmont
Century
Plaza
in
Los
Angeles.