| The New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF), the country’s most prestigious, longest-running South Asian film festival, announces its movie award categories, esteemed panel of jurors and CLOSING NIGHT FILM. The six-day festival (May 4 to 9) will showcase more than 30 shorts, documentaries and feature films, along with special events, networking parties and Q&A sessions with directors, actors and producers. For the entire festival schedule & locations, please go HERE. To purchase tickets for the gala, buy festival passes or score individual screening tickets, please goHERE.
NYIFF 2015 Award Categories & Nominees Are (Drum Roll, please…): |
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Best Picture |
| 1 |
City Lights |
| 2 |
My Big Fat Bride |
| 3 |
Gour Hari Dastaan |
| 4 |
Labour of Love |
| 5 |
Margarita, with a Straw |
| 6 |
Saari Raat |
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Best Actor |
| 1 |
Ayushmann Khurrana (My Big Fat Bride) |
| 2 |
Dulal Sarkar (Chotoder Chobi) |
| 3 |
Rajkumar Rao (City Lights) |
| 4 |
Vikram Gokhale (Siddhant) |
| 5 |
Vinay Pathak (Gour Hari Dastaan) |
| 6 |
Nawazuddin Siddiqui (Haraamkhor) |
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Best Short |
| 1 |
Bloody Moustache |
| 2 |
Hechki |
| 3 |
Nayantara’s Necklace |
| 4 |
Seek & Hide |
| 5 |
Zor |
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Best Screenplay |
| 1 |
Chauranga |
| 2 |
Choteder Chobi |
| 3 |
Haraamkhor |
| 4 |
Labour of Love |
| 5 |
Margarita, with a Straw |
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Best Director |
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Aditya Vikram Sengupta (Labour of Love) |
| 2 |
Ananth Mahadevan (Gour Hari Dastaan) |
| 3 |
Aparna Sen (Saari Raat) |
| 4 |
Hansal Mehta (City Lights) |
| 5 |
Sharat Katariya (My Big Fat Bride) |
| 6 |
Shonali Bose (Margarita, with a Straw) |
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Best Actress |
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Bhumi Pednekar (My Big Fat Bride) |
| 2 |
Debalina Roy (Chotoder Chobi) |
| 3 |
Kalki Koechlin (Margarita, with a Straw) |
| 4 |
Konkana Sen (Gour Hari Dastan) |
| 5 |
Konkana Sen (Saari Raat) |
| 6 |
Tannishtha Chatterjee (Rough Book) |
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Best Documentary |
| 1 |
A Moment of Misgiving |
| 2 |
Being Bhaijaan |
| 3 |
Daughters of Mother India |
| 4 |
Meet the Patels |
| 5 |
Placebo |
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Best Child Actor |
| 1 |
Archit Dewadhar (Siddhant) |
| 2 |
J. Vignesh & Ramesh (Kaakaa Muttai) |
| 3 |
Shameem Khan (Yeh Hai Bakrapur) |
| 4 |
Shrirang Mahajan (Elizabeth Ekadashi) |
| 5 |
Soham Maitra & Riddhi Sen (Chauranga) |
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| ***Winners in each category will be announced at the closing night awards ceremony on Saturday, May 9 AFTER the closing night film, which will be Yash Raj Films’ MY BIG FAT BRIDE, directed by Sharat Katariya and starring Ayushmann Khuranna & Bhumi Pednakar. It’s a heartfelt story about a mismatched couple trying to find themselves and each other between their own complexes and dysfunctional, yet endearing, families. |
NYIFF 2015’s Panel of Jurors Includes (in alphabetical order, by last name):
- Parag Amladi
- Ashish Avikunthak
- Dev Benegal
- Tejaswini Ganti
- Udayan Gupta
- Le Frances Hui
- Poorna Jagannathan
- Joseph Mathew
- Myrna Moncayo-Iyengar
- Claus Mueller
- Muriel (Mike) Peters
- Zenobia Shroff
- Nilita Vachani
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