Payal Kapadia is all smiles even as she loses Best Director award to Brady Corbet at 2025 Golden Globes

Payal Kapadia lost the Best Director Golden Globe to Brady Corbet, who won it for the Brutalist.

Updated on: Jan 6, 2025, 08:41:09 IST

By Abhimanyu Mathur

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Payal Kapadia had little to cheer at the 2025 Golden Globes as she and her film, All We Imagine As Light, lost both the awards they were nominated for. But the director still held her head high and clapped for the winners. As she lost the prestigious Best Director award to Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, the filmmaker managed a big smile and applauded. (Also read: Golden Globes 2025 live updates: No wins for India as All We Imagine As Light gets snubbed in both categories)

Payal Kapadia arrives at the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on January 5, 2025. (Photo by Etienne Laurent / AFP) (AFP)

Payal became only the third Asian woman to be nominated for Best Director at the Golden Globes when the nominations were announced late last year. For many, that achievement is big enough itself as it has brought a lot of spotlight to her and Indian cinema.

Her film, All We Imagine As Light, has been the toast of the American award season so far, getting nominated at the Globes and the Critics Choice Awards. The film was the first from India to win the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival last year. All We Imagine As Light had earlier lost to Emilia Perez in the Best Non-English Language Motion Picture category at the Golden Globes.

All We Imagine As Light got a belated theatrical release in India late in 2024 after it won both hearts and trophies at international film festivals. From January 2025, it has also been streaming, making its OTT debut on Disney+ Hotstar.

The Film Federation of India did not select the film as India's official entry for the Oscars, a move that created quite a lot of controversy. Instead, Kiran Rao's Laapataa Ladies was selected to be India's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. However, the film failed to reach the shortlist, let alone get nominated.

The 82nd Golden Globes kicked off Sunday night at 8 p.m. EST (6.30 am IST), aiming to recapture the playful, comedic vibe of past ceremonies hosted by icons like Ricky Gervais or the duo Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. This year, comedian Nikki Glaser is hosting the event. In India, fans can watch the show on Lionsgate Play, where it has been streaming live since Monday morning, 6.30 am.

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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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