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LAFCA names Wall-E best film of the year
MUMBAI: The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) has selected Disney’s Wall-E as the best movie of 2008. It has also picked The Dark Knight as runner-up. The LAFCA awards will be given out on 12 January.
Wall-E has garnered approximately $490 million at the worldwide box offices while The Dark Knight has made about $1 billion globally.
Also, LAFCA has named Sean Penn the best actor of the year for his role in Milk and Briton Sally Hawkins bagged the best actress title for her role in Happy-Go-Lucky.
Danny Boyle has been named best director for Slumdog Millionaire, which is about a young Indian man on a television game show.
Heath Ledger, who played the villainous Joker in The Dark Knight, was named best supporting actor. Penelope Cruz was named best supporting actress for Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Elegy.
Earlier, the Broadcast Film Critics Association had announced the entrant for top movies and performances with Milk, Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Changeling, Doubt, Frost/Nixon, The Reader, Slumdog Millionaire, The Wrestler and Wall-E.
While BFCA Best has nominated Angelina Jolie for Changeling, Cate Blanchett for Benjamin Button and Meryl Streep for Doubt in the best actress category, the body has selected Penn for Milk, Frank Langella for Frost/Nixon, Pitt for Benjamin Button and Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler in the best actor category.
The BFCA awards will be given out on 8 January.
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Rashmika Mandanna, Shanaya Kapoor and Naila Grrewal climb IMDb’s Indian celebrity rankings
Upcoming films and returning shows are driving fan interest across Bollywood and streaming
MUMBAI: Bollywood’s popularity contest has a new weekly scorecard, and the numbers are telling. IMDb’s Popular Indian Celebrities list for this week places Shanaya Kapoor at number six, buoyed by buzz around her film Tu Yaa Main. Naila Grrewal slots in at seven on the back of the returning comedy series Maamla Legal Hai, while Rashmika Mandanna climbs to eighth, riding mounting anticipation for Cocktail 2.
The list, available exclusively on the IMDb app for Android and iOS, tracks trending Indian entertainers and filmmakers each week, drawing on data from more than 200m monthly visits to the platform worldwide.
Further down the rankings, Raaka is keeping two of its biggest names in the spotlight. Deepika Padukone holds 11th position, with Allu Arjun close behind at 13th, as the film continues to find traction with audiences.
The list offers fans a weekly pulse on who is breaking through, who is holding steady, and who is fading. It is a barometer as unsparing as the box office itself.
