News India Times
February 12, 2016
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Arts & Entertainment
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Priyanka Chopra At American Award Shows
Far left, Priyanka Chopra poses at
ELLE’s Annual Women in
Television dinner in Los Angeles,
California Jan. 20. Left, Chopra
poses at the BAFTA Los Angeles
Awards Season Tea Party in
Beverly Hills, California, Jan. 9.
Above, Chopra sign autographs
upon arrival at the 22nd Screen
Actors Guild Awards in Los
Angeles, California Jan.30. Right,
Chopra arrives at the 22nd
Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los
Angeles, California Jan. 30.
– LOS ANGELES
ollywood actress
Priyanka Chopra will be
among the star presen-
ters at the 88th
Academy Awards,
where stars like Julianne Moore,
ReeseWitherspoon andWhoopi
Goldberg will also take to the
stage later this month. She’s
expecting it to be an “insane
night”.
The former MissWorld, who
has garnered international fame
for her lead role as Alex Parrish in
American TV series “Quantico”, is
one amongst the many global
names who will be a presenter at
the much coveted awards cere-
mony, watched by people across
the globe. “Looking forward
@TheAcademy!! This will be an
insaaaane night!” Priyanka tweet-
ed Feb. 1.
This year, the event, where
India has no nomination, is to be
held on February 28.
The Academy of Motion
Pictures Arts and Sciences
released a second list of 13 pre-
senters for this year. Apart from
Priyanka, it features names as
popular as Steve Carell, Quincy
Jones, Byung-hun Lee, Jared Leto,
Julianne Moore, Olivia Munn,
Margot Robbie, Jason Segel, Andy
Serkis, J.K. Simmons, Kerry
Washington and Reese
Witherspoon.
Priyanka, 33, was also a pre-
senter at the 22nd Screen Actors
Guild (SAG) Awards here and
dazzled on the stage in a pink
lace mesh gown. Now all eyes will
be on what she chooses to wear
for the Oscar ceremony.
Her friends in the film indus-
try have congratulated her on
being chosen as a presenter at
the Oscars. Prakash Jha. who has
directed her forthcoming
Bollywood film, tweeted: “Isn’t
that fantastic!! So proud of you
Priyanka Chopra! Bravo Abha
Mathur”; while filmmaker Kunal
Kohli shared: “Priyanka Chopra
wow! Next step winning one.”
Currently riding on the suc-
cess of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s
magnum opus “Bajirao Mastani”
and a Padma Shri honour that
the Indian government has
decided to decorate her with,
Priyanka is also the first
Bollywood personality to be feted
with the People’s Choice Award in
January this year for her interna-
tional acting debut as FBI agent
Alex Parrish in “Quantico”.
– IANS
Priyanka Chopra To Be Presenter At Academy Awards
– MUMBAI
A
ctor Anil Kapoor has
defended the controver-
sies that surround award
shows in Bollywood, saying even
the Oscars have its share of con-
troversies, which are sometimes
even bigger.
“As they say, the grass is always
greener (on the other side).
Because you are here (Indian film
industry), you don’t know what’s
happening there (international-
ly). So the kind of controversies
that happen here, sometimes the
controversies there are more than
that,” Kapoor said Feb. 4 at a
press conference to announce
the Zee Cine Awards, where he
will be performing.
“And this year too, at the
Oscars, there have been big con-
troversies, certain sections feel
that they have not been fair, that
it’s not been that diverse in their
choice of nominations. These
things keep happening, lobbying
also takes place,” the “24” actor
said.
There has been a controversy
with the all-white nominations at
the Oscars this year with numer-
ous artistes voicing their opin-
ions on the issue.
Kapoor, who was a part of
Oscar-winning film“Slumdog
Millionaire”, recently won the
Filmfare Best Supporting Actor
for his performance in “Dil
Dhadakne Do”.
“Ultimately, you can see that
this year I have received an award
but it’s after so many years and
that doesn’t mean that I didn’t
want to get awards. So some-
where it is genuine that I didn’t
get the award. My work in all
films is good, tell me in which
film I didn’t do good work.”
“All big stars do good work
every year, but we don’t get
awards every year, so some-
where there is a certain integri-
ty in the awards. And you are
not in America or Los Angeles,
and even there all kinds of con-
troversies happen. The ones
who win feel it is genuine and
the ones who don’t win find
something fishy,” the actor
said.
The Zee Cine Awards cere-
mony, to be held on February
20, will be hosted by Shahid
Kapoor and Karan Johar.
– IANS
Oscars Have Bigger Controversies: Anil Kapoor
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