Oscars 2023: List of winners
Los Angeles (PTI): Multiverse dramedy "Everything Everywhere All at Once" emerged as the big winner at the 95th Academy Awards, taking home the coveted best picture trophy along with awards for its star cast --Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win the best actress trophy, while Brendan Fraser returned to centre stage with his best actor award for his role as an overweight reclusive professor in "The Whale".
Filmmaking duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known as the Daniels, won for both directing and original screenplay for "Everything Everywhere All at Once".
"Naatu Naatu", the peppy, foot-tapping chartbuster from SS Rajamouli's Telugu blockbuster "RRR", created history by becoming the first Indian track to win the Academy Award in the best original song category.
Here are the list of winners -
Best picture: "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
Best director: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
Best actress: Michelle Yeoh for "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
Best actor: Brendan Fraser for"The Whale"
Best supporting actor: Ke Huy Quan for "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
Best supporting actress: Jamie Lee Curtis for "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
Best original song: "Naatu Naatu" from "RRR"
Best original screenplay: "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
Best adapted screenplay: "Women Talking"
Best film editing: "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
Best animated feature: "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio"
Best international feature film: "All Quiet on the Western Front"
Best documentary feature: "Navalny"
Best live action short: "An Irish Goodbye"
Best cinematography: James Friend for "All Quiet on the Western Front"
Best makeup and hairstyling: "The Whale"
Best costume design: "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"
Best documentary short: "The Elephant Whisperers"
Best animated short: "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse"
Best production design: "All Quiet on the Western Front"
Best music (original score): Volker Bertelmann for "All Quiet on the Western Front"
Best visual Effects: "Avatar: The Way of Water"
Best sound: "Top Gun: Maverick"
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Jai Bhim: Slogan that energised Dalits was first given at this central Maharashtra village
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (PTI): 'Jai Bhim': These two words have come to symbolise the awakening and empowerment of the Dalit community in independent India, but not many people know how it originated.
The slogan, which also encapsulates the immense reverence in which Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is held, was first raised at the Makranpur Parishad, a conference organised at Makranpur village in Kannad teshil of today's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district in Maharashtra.
Ambedkar, the chief architect of India's Constitution, died on December 6, 1956.
Bhausaheb More, the first president of the Scheduled Castes Federation of Marathwada, organised the first Makranpur Parishad on December 30, 1938.
Dr Ambedkar spoke at the conference and asked the people not to support the princely state of Hyderabad under which much of central Maharashtra then fell, said Assistant Commissioner of Police Pravin More, Bhausaheb's son.
"When Bhausaheb stood up to speak, he said every community has its own deity and they greet each other using the name of that deity. Dr Ambedkar showed us the path of progress, and he is like God to us. So henceforth, we should say 'Jai Bhim' while meeting each other. The people responded enthusiastically. A resolution accepting 'Jai Bhim' as the community's slogan was also passed," More told PTI.
"My father came in contact with Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar in his early years. Bhausaheb was aware of the atrocities the Nizam state committed on Dalits. He told Ambedkar about these atrocities, including the pressure to convert. Dr Ambedkar was strongly against these atrocities, and he decided to attend the 1938 conference," he said.
As Ambedkar was against the princely states, he was banned from giving speeches in the Hyderabad state but was allowed to travel through its territories. The Shivna river formed the border between Hyderabad and British India. Makranpur was chosen as the venue for the first conference because it was on the banks of Shivna but lay in the British territory, ACP More said.
The stage made of bricks, from where Dr Ambedkar addressed the conference, still stands. The conference is organised on December 30 every year to carry forward Ambedkar's thought, and the tradition was not discontinued even in 1972 when Maharashtra experienced one of the worst droughts in it history.
"My grandmother pledged her jewellery for the conference expenses. People from Khandesh, Vidarbha and Marathwada attended it. Despite a ban imposed by the Nizam's police, Ambedkar's followers crossed the river to attend the event," said ACP More.
"This is the 87th year of Makranpur Parishad. We have deliberately retained the venue as it helps spread Ambedkar's thought in rural areas," he added.
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