91st Oscars Shortlists: While Indian Venture 'period. End Of Sentence' Has Retained Its Place, 'Village Rockstars' Has Been Pushed Out Of The Academy Race

Acemy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have narrowed down ir list of contestants for 91st Oscars and anunced list of semi-finalists in nine separate categories on Tuesday, December 18. organization took to Twitter and released final list which includes Guneet Monga's film 'Period. End of Sentence' that highlights Indian women's fights against deeply rooted stigma of menstruation.

26-minute film directed by award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker Rayka Zehtabchi narrates experience of a group of girls and women from a small vill in rrn India who combats social stigma to install a p machine in ir vill. film has been selected for  Documentary Short Subject category.

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Producer Guneet Monga also took to Twitter to talk about  achievement of film. He took to Instagram and said, "Waking up to this shortlist!! So proud and soo exciting. Watch out for “Period. End of Sentence” our short documentary directed by @raykaz shot by @samdavisdp produced by school girls of Oakwood, Melissa Burton, @lisataback , Garrett. I am so humbled to be a part of producing team. Executive Produced by me and a @sikhya co-production ❤️ thank you @stacey_sher for bringing me on board ❤️"

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However, list excludes much-anticipated Indian venture 'Vill Rockstars' for Foreign Langu Film Category. Iram Haq's rwegian drama 'What Will People Say', starring Indian actors il Hussain and Ekavali Khanna, has also been pushed out of  Oscar race. minations for 91st Oscars will be anunced on January 22, 2019, ahe of Oscars ceremony which is slated to be held on February 24, 2019. 

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Here's full list of contenders:

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

“Charm City”
“Communion”
“Crime + Punishment”
“Dark Money”
“ Distant Barking of Dogs”
“Free Solo”
“Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
“Minding Gap”
“Of Fars and Sons”
“On Her Shoulders”
“RBG”
“Shirkers”
“ Silence of Ors”
“Three Identical Strangers”
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

“Black Sheep”
“End Game”
“Lifeboat”
“Los Comandos”
“My De D’s Por Tapes”
“A Night at Garden”
“Period. End of Sentence.”
“’63 Boycott”
“Women of Gulag”
“Zion”

FOREIGN LANGU FILM

Colombia, “Birds of Pass”
Denmark, “ Guilty”
Germany, “Never Look Away”
Japan, “Shoplifters”
Kazakhstan, “Ayka”
Leban, “Capernaum”
Mexico, “Roma”
Poland, “Cold War”
South Korea, “Burning”

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

“Black Panr”
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“Border”
“Mary Queen of Scots”
“Stan & Ollie”
“Suspiria”
“Vice”

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

“Annihilation”
“Avengers: Infinity War”
“ Ball of Buster Scruggs”
“Black Panr”
“BlacKkKlansman”
“Crazy Rich Asians”
“ Death of Stalin”
“Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald”
“First Man”
“If Beale Street Could Talk”
“Isle of Dogs”
“Mary Poppins Returns”
“A Quiet Place”
“Rey Player One”
“Vice”

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

“When A Cowboy Tres His Spurs For Wings” from “ Ball of Buster Scruggs”
“Treasure” from “Beautiful Boy”
“All Stars” from “Black Panr”
“Revelation” from “Boy Erased”
“Girl In Movies” from “Dumplin’”
“We Won’t Move” from “ Hate U Give”
“ Place Where Lost Things Go” from “Mary Poppins Returns”
“Trip A Little Light Fantastic” from “Mary Poppins Returns”
“Keep Reachin’” from “Quincy”
“I’ll Fight” from “RBG”
“A Place Called Slaughter Race” from “Ralph Breaks Internet”
“OYAHYTT” from “Sorry to Bor You”
“Shallow” from “A Star Is Born”
“Suspirium” from “Suspiria”
“ Big Unkwn” from “Widows”

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

“ of Sail”
“Animal Behaviour”
“Bao”
“Bilby”
“Bird Karma”
“Late Afteron”
“Lost & Found”
“One Small Step”
“Pépé le Morse”
“Weekends”

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

“Caroline”
“Chuchot”
“Detainment”
“Fauve”
“Icare”
“Marguerite”
“May Day”
“Mor”
“Skin”
“Wale”

VISUAL EFFECTS

“Ant-Man and Wasp”
“Avengers: Infinity War”
“Black Panr”
“Christopher Robin”
“First Man”
“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”
“Mary Poppins Returns”
“Rey Player One”
“Solo: A Star Wars Story”
“Welcome to Marwen”

This is for  first time that shortlists in music categories have been revealed.  Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.