No cheer for India as All We Imagine As Light and Citadel Honey Bunny fail to win Critics Choice Awards 2025

Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light failed to win the Critics Choice Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Updated on: Feb 8, 2025, 08:30:21 IST

By Abhimanyu Mathur

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Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light stumbled at the last hurdle at the Critics Choice Awards 2025. The acclaimed film had been nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category and was one of the favourites but eventually lost to Selena Gomez-starrer Emilia Perez. The other Indian nominee - Citadel: Honey Bunny - also lost in its category. (Also Read | Critics Choice Awards 2025 list of winners: Shogun sweeps all major awards for drama series)

All We Imagine As Light loses to Emilia Perez

The two films were up against Flow (Latvia), I’m Still Here (Brazil), Kneecap (Ireland), and The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany). All We Imagine As Light won the Grand Prix at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first Indian film to do so. That made it a favourite for most international awards. However, the film has so far failed to win at the big Hollywood awards, securing nominations but not winning in both the Critics Choice Awards and the Golden Globes.

All We Imagine As Light was not nominated at the 2025 Oscars as it was not selected as India's official entry to the Academy Awards. The Film Federation of India instead sent Kiran Rao's Laapataa Ladies (Lost Ladies) for consideration in the Best Foreign Language Film category. However, the film also failed to secure a nomination.

Emilia Perez, a Spanish-language musical crime directed by Jacques Audiard, has seen controversy for its numerous award nominations as well as the hateful tweets of its star, Karla Sofía Gascón. The actor did not attend the Critics Choice Awards after Netflix and the film distanced themselves from her amid the controversy.

Citadel Honey Bunny loses to Squid Game

All We Imagine As Light was not the only Indian nominee at the awards. Varun Dhawan and Samantha Ruth Prabhu's Amazon Prime Video show Citadel: Honey Bunny was nominated for Best Foreign Language Series. But it also faltered at the final hurdle, losing to the Netflix sensation, Squid Game.

The two shows were up against Acapulco, La Máquina, The Law According to Lidia Poët, My Brilliant Friend, Pachinko, and Senna.

About the 30th Critics Choice Awards

The Critics Choice Awards 2025 were held in Los Angeles on Friday night (February 7). Like in the previous four years, film and television nominations are being announced separately.

The 30th Critics’ Choice Awards are streaming LIVE in India on Lionsgate Play from 5.30 am onwards.

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Abhimanyu Mathur
Abhimanyu Mathur is Deputy Editor, Entertainment at Hindustan Times. With almost 15 years of experience in writing about everything from films and TV shows to cricket matches and elections, he inhales and exhales pop culture and news. Currently, he watches movies and TV shows and talks to celebrities for a living, while occasionally writing about them as well. A journalism graduate of Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Delhi University, Abhimanyu began his career with Hindustan Times at the age of 20, swapping classrooms for newsrooms at an early age. He began his journey in the early days of digital journalism, later switching to the madness of print journalism. Work has led him to far off places like Japan and Jordan, as well as to the interiors of Haryana and the Indo-Pak border. He dabbled in city reporting in places like Meerut, Gurgaon, and Delhi, covered the Olympics and Cricket World Cups, before finding his calling in entertainment and lifestyle during the pandemic. A Rotten Tomatoes Certified Film Critic, he is equally at home covering stories on ground as he is interviewing celebrities and studios, and sometimes prefers to shepherd teams in delivering traffic through the day. Even as his role has evolved from reporter to supervisor over the years, his first love remains writing (and of late, talking on camera). With a good understanding of cinema and its trends, and a keen eye for detail, he continues to spark conversations around showbiz for readers around the world.Read More

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