Oscar 2023 nominations: RRR and two documentaries are up for race

RRR has been nominated for an Oscar - Best Original Song for Naatu Naatu which also won the Golden Globe in the same category. Four other nominated songs will battle against Naatu Naatu are Applause from Tell It Like A Woman, Lady Gaga's, Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick, Rihanna's Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and This Is A Life from Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Two Indian-made documentaries are also going to the Oscars - All That Breathes has been nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film and The Elephant Whisperers for Best Documentary Short. Chhello Show or Last Picture Show, India's official Oscar entry, was excluded from the final list of nominees for Best International Feature Film.
Tamil documentary 'The Elephant Whisperers' directed by Kartiki Gonsalves bagged a nomination in the 'Documentary Short Subject' category of the 95th Academy Awards.
The Indian climate change documentary "All That Breathes" made it onto nominations list. The Shaunak Sen directorial is nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category alongside 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed', 'Fire of Love', 'A House Made of Splinters' and 'Navalny'.
RRR and the documentaries join a select group of Indian films to have gone to the Oscars - Mother India, Salaam Bombay and Lagaan were nominated for Best International Feature Film. When MM Keeravaani, the composer of Naatu Naatu, adds an Oscar to his Golden Globe, he will join a select group of Indian Oscar winners that also includes Bhanu Athaiya, who won Best Costume Design for Gandhi, AR Rahman, Gulzar, and sound engineer Resul Pookutty, who won for their work on the British-produced Indian-set movie Slumdog Millionaire.