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Priyanka Chopra, Dev Patel Turn 89th Academy Awards Red Carpet Desi. Check Out Other Stunners

... Updated on February 27, 2017 6:40 am. Oscars 2017, the most awaited award ceremony of the year, has already begun. Actors such as Casey Affleck, Isabella Huppert, Matt Damon and Taraji P Henson made early appearances on the 89 th Academy Awards red carpet but our attention was arrested by Dev Patel and Sunny Pawar - the two Lion actors - who got India on the red carpet before the ceremony began. After them, it was Priyanka Chopra who took all our attention as she walked in like a tigress with a bright smile on her face. Priyanka Chopra is prepping up for her big Hollywood debut with Baywatch has already taken the world by storm with her American sitcom Quantico, in which she plays Alex Parish. Now, she is making her appearances as Victoria Leeds, her character from her Dwayne Johnson-starrer film. Well, she for sure got all eyes on her. Dev Patel, who won Best Supporting actor at the ...

19 Reasons Your Obsession With Dev Patel Is Justified

... on repeat for eternity 😭. — Gabrielle Micco (@gabriellemicco) January 9, 2017. Same, girl, same. — Who’s he taking to the Oscars? Apparently, his mom, Anita. “That’s her moment,” he told the LA Times.  “I’m her guest.”. D’aww. Here they are at a 2009 British awards party. Dave M. Benett via Getty Images. Gotta love a man who respects his mama. this gif of Dev Patel being overwhelmed by his success/thanking his mother is my love language __link__/l Cowc 4 pa Ul. — BORK BORK (@priya_ebooks) February 19, 2017. — We also want him to win because we’re positive he’d be so humble and bashful during his acceptance speech. Just look at how he reacted to his name being called for his SAG award nomination. — And in spite of all the Oscar buzz surrounding him, Dev realizes we’re living in politically tumultuous times and there’s weightier things happening in the world right now. Here’s what  ...

Dev Patel, La La Land And Naomi Harris Tipped To Win Big

... Tim Boyle/Getty Images). Dev Patel and Naomie Harris are going to be the ones to watch at the Oscars in Los Angeles on Sunday. The brutal Oscars edition of Mean Tweets was the undoubted highlight of the ceremony. According to those in the know, aka the bookies taking bets on the favourites, Dev Patel is tipped to win best supporting role for Lion while bets are on Naomie Harris being awarded for her phenomenal performance in Moonlight with a Best Supporting Actress win. The bookmakers, Coral , have given odds on Naomie Harris winning were 16-1 while Patel had odds of 11-2. Will Dev Patel walk away with the best supporting actor role for Lion? (Picture: REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni. Harris has been nominated for her role as Paula, the mother of Chiron, the central character in Barry Jenkin’s Moonlight. She was nominated for a Golden Globe for the role but was pipped to the gong by Viola Davies for her role as Rose in the 2016 film about an African-American family in the 1950 s. Naomie Harris is ...

Awards Chatter' Podcast

... junior high school and high school, leading to accolades and encouragement, but he never imagined himself becoming a professional. Then, one day, his mother spotted an ad seeking young actors to audition for a British television series, and dragged her son to it. It resulted in his being cast as a horny young Muslim — a supporting role that provided comic-relief — on Skins. "It was just madness," he says of his two seasons on the the edgy and controversial show. One day, out of the blue, Patel received a call from Danny Boyle, who, unbeknownst to Patel, had been trying to cast the title character for an India-set movie called called Slumdog Millionaire. After scouring the Indian film industry for a suitable actor, but finding almost all of the right age to be buff, in the style then popular in India but not appropriate for his film's character, Boyle almost threw in the towel — but then his 15-year-old daughter, a fan of Skins, suggested he consider Patel. This led to a series of auditions and eventually Patel's casting, after ...

The Dessert That Led Dev Patel’s Character In Lion Home Again

... in several directions,” said food scholar Darra Goldstein in The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets. But jalebi has found its most ardent devotees in South Asia, where it’s a wildly popular street food often served on holidays and celebrations. Generally, a jalebi is made by extruding a thin batter of flour or lentils into hot oil to form large spirals that are later soaked in warm sugar syrup. The jalebi most familiar to Western food lovers, and as seen in Lion, are made of maida flour—a finely milled wheat flour—and Bengal gram flour—a flour milled from chickpeas—drenched in a syrup usually flavored with cardamom and saffron. Other ingredients may include lime juice or sour yogurt for tang, or rose water for a floral note. One regional variation, called cheeni mittai, is “made using rice flour, urad dal [split black gram] and powdered cardamom. deep-fried in swirl shapes, and soaked in three kinds of sugar syrups ...

Oscars Nominees Hit The Red Carpet With Their Mums

... the must-have accessory for a number of the A-listers at the Oscars was… their mother. Yes, heart-warming snaps from this year’s ceremony show an array of nominees using their plus-one to hit the red carpet with their mums, including Best Supporting Actor contender Dev Patel. Jeff Kravitz via Getty Images. Dev and Anita Patel on the Oscars red carpet. The ‘Lion’ actor was photographed on the red carpet with his mother, Anita Patel, a carer, who looked totally thrilled to be joining her son at the Academy Awards. He told Sky on the red carpet: “This film [’Lion’] is about mothers and sons and the strength of that love. She’s more than deserving of being here. more than me, actually.”. Jeff Kravitz via Getty Images. Already our favourite image from this year's red carpet. Dev wasn’t the only star to arrive with his mum in tow, with ‘Hamilton’ creator Lin-Manuel Miranda also being joined at the event by his beloved mother, Luz Towns-Miranda. Lin-Manuel is nominated at this year’s Oscars for his offering in ...

Can Dev Patel’s Lion Beat La La Land, Moonlight

... Moonlight. The film is nominated for an Oscar for best picture. (AP). Barry Jenkins’s poetic drama Moonlight is a sweeping tale of human self-discovery that covers three chapters in a young black man’s life in Miami. Based on the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, the film racked up eight nominations including for Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris in the supporting actor categories, writing, directing and cinematography. Read more. Moonlight movie review: The story of a lifetime. A worthy challenger to La La Land. Hidden Figures. Theodore Melfi’s biographical comedy-drama Hidden Figures is the little-known story of three female African-American mathematicians who played a key role in NASA’s early space program. The film, which stars Taraji P Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae, is up for three Oscars including best picture and best adapted screenplay. Read more. Hidden Figures ...

Dakota Johnson, Mahershala Ali, Dev Patel, More Arrive On 89th Oscars Red Carpet

... walked the 89 th Academy Awards red carpet. Recent celebrities spotted on the 89 th Academy Awards red carpet include presenter Dakota Johnson and nominees Mahershala Ali and Dev Patel. They walked the red carpet in advance of Sunday’s eagerly anticipated ceremony, which begins at 8:30 PM ET/5:30 PM PT. Jimmy Kimmel is hosting this year’s event. Others recently seen on the red carpet include Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel, Michael J. Fox, and John Cho. ABC’s official red carpet photos follow. THE OSCARS(r) – The 89 th Oscars(r) broadcasts live on Oscar(r) SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2017, on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/Tyler Golden). JESSICA BIEL. THE OSCARS(r) – The 89 th Oscars(r) broadcasts live on Oscar(r) SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2017, on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/Tyler Golden). JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, JESSICA BIEL. THE OSCARS(r) – The 89 th Oscars(r) broadcasts live on Oscar(r) SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2017, on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/Tyler Golden). JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, JESSICA BIEL. THE OSCARS(r) – The 89 th Oscars(r) broadcasts live on Oscar(r) SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2017, on the ABC Television Network. ...

Dev Patel On His Meatiest Role Since Slumdog Millionaire

... you were waiting for a role like this to come along. Why do you think it took so long to happen. Jimmy Kimmel Kept His Feud With Matt Damon Alive During the 2017 Oscars. Dev Patel: I just think the pond I was fishing from was very small. I try to be as versatile as I can in the characters that I’m offered. Some people phrase it as a blanket term as just playing “Indian men.” But I think that does a great injustice to the work. You can’t compare Slumdog to a Marigold Hotel, for instance, or a Marigold Hotel to The Man Who Knew Infinity. When this film came along, it was a character that didn’t require me to play into a specific box. That’s what I’ve been waiting for, to go on a journey where I could dig deep inside a human being and get stuck in there. I heard you showed up at director Garth Davis’ doorstep to try to make this happen. I had been sent a news article about it and the themes of the piece, I really responded to, as a young man. I was completely moved by the love that the whole family had: this woman in India who never ...

From Emma Stone To Dev Patel, The 10 Best Dressed Celebrities At The 89th Annual Academy Awards

... for the No. 1 spot. Emma Stone, as the presumptive Best Actress winner for La La Land, came dressed not in stars this time, but gold Givenchy. Loving’s Ruth Negga, who is nominated for Best Actress, sports a custom red Valentino gown, oozing Victorian ghost, with maybe the most political accessory: a blue ACLU ribbon, which Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karlie Kloss are also proudly wearing. For Negga, in particular, the ACLU is key to the story behind Loving. The non-profit organization supported interracial couple Richard and Mildred Loving (whom Negga plays in the film) in 1958 when the pair fought Virginia’s anti-miscengenation law, in hopes of legally marrying. In the most nude dress without going remotely nude, red carpet veteran Nicole Kidman arrived wearing beaded Armani with her red lips popping. If there is any couple ...