Payal Kapadia received a historic nomination in the Best Director category for All We Imagine As Light. The acclaimed film was also nominated in the Best Film in a Non-English Language category. The nominations for the 82nd Golden Globe Awards were announced on December 9th by Mindy Kaling and Morris Chestnut. (Also Read: Golden Globe nominations today: Wicked, Emilia Perez likely to be nominated; The Bear, Shogun could also be there)

“All We Imagine As Light” receives two nominations

This is the first time that a director from India has been nominated in the Best Director category at the Golden Globe Awards. Other nominees include Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez; Sean Baker, Anora; Edward Berger for Conclave; Brady Corbet for The Brutalist; and Coralie Fargeat for The Substance.

“All We Imagine As Light” was recently named Best International Film by the New York Film Critics Circle and the Gotham Awards. It was also voted best film of the year by the renowned magazine “Sight and Sound”, which also named “Anora”, “La chimera”, “Dahomey” and “Hard Truths” among its five best films.

About everything we imagine as light

Starring Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha and Chhaya Kadam, Payal Kapadia’s film explores love, longing and loneliness in the bustling city of Mumbai through three women, two Malay nurses – Prabha and Anu – and their friend Parvati. The film’s awards run began after it won the prestigious Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in early May this year. Read our review here.

All We Imagine As Light is distributed in the US by Janus Films and Sideshow. Rana Daggubati’s Spirit Media released the film across India. The film was not selected by the selection committee in India to represent the country at the Oscars. The selection committee chose Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Ladies instead.

The awards will be broadcast LIVE and exclusively in India on Lionsgate Play on January 6 from 6:30 am IST.