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Oscars 2023: Vogue misidentifies Deepika Padukone as Camila Alves
Deepika Padukone, despite being an internationally recognized Indian actress, was misidentified as Camila Alves by Getty and Vogue in their Oscars 2023 coverage.
Deepika, who was one of the Oscar presenters, introduced a rousing performance of RRR’s Oscar-winning viral track “Naatu Naatu”, and has been on the international circuit – Cannes jury and a FIFA World Cup last year, but apparently Western media “can’t tell her apart from Matthew McConaughey’s wife Camila,” reports NDTV.
Deepika wore a black Louis Vuitton to the Oscars, and she “did not resemble” Camila, a Brazilian model and designer, it said.
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Deepika is making waves, and for good reason. She and Iker Casillas introduced the FIFA World Cup 2022 trophy in Qatar. She has also been on the Cannes Film Festival jury.
Deepika Padukone is now enjoying the success of her latest film “Pathaan”, in which she co-stars with Shah Rukh Khan and John Abraham. The film is now breaking box office records.Deepika Padukone will next be seen in “Fighter” with Hrithik Roshan.
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This is how Oscar winners are decided
The road to an Oscar winds through a long awards season, which finally culminates Sunday at the Academy Awards. We take you through the process of getting that golden statuette into a winner’s hand — this is how Oscar voting works:
WHO VOTES ON THE OSCARS?
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences boasts some 10,000-plus members, divided among 17 branches. All academy members have to be involved in the movie business in some capacity, but membership isn’t restricted to creatives — there are branches for executives and marketing and public relations professionals, as well.
While nominations are mostly decided by members of the relevant branch (directors nominate directors, for instance), all voting members can nominate films for best picture. Once nominees are decided, all voting members are eligible to cast their ballots in any category.
In recent years, the academy has taken steps to diversify its membership, especially after receiving criticism for a spate of all-white acting nominees.. It adds new members once a year.
WHEN DOES OSCAR VOTING TAKE PLACE?
Voting takes place over a few days not too long before the ceremony — in 2023, voting opened March 2 and ended March 7, five days before the big night.
HOW ARE VOTES CAST?
While the final results can sometimes be controversial, there’s no risk of hanging chads — voting takes place entirely online.
Tabulation for most categories is simple — the nominee that gets the most votes wins.
Best picture, on the other hand, employs ranked-choice voting (also known as preferential voting). Voters order the nominees by preference; if one movie comes away with more than 50% of the first-place votes in the first round, that’s the winner. But if no movie meets that threshold, then the one with the fewest first-place votes is eliminated — people who had ranked that film first will have their votes transferred to their second choices. And so on it goes until some movie wins a majority.
It sounds complicated, we know, but proponents of ranked-choice voting argue that it’s more representative, especially in a large field of nominees.
WHO KNOWS THE WINNERS BEFORE THEY’RE ANNOUNCED?
According to the academy website, just two PricewaterhouseCoopers partners know the results beforehand. PwC is the accounting firm that tabulates the votes. Each partner is stationed in the Dolby Theatre’s wings during the ceremony with a full set of winners’ envelopes. They’re charged with handing the sealed envelope to the winner.
Infamously, in 2017, a PwC accountant handed Warren Beaty and Faye Dunaway the wrong envelope, resulting in the “La La Land”/“Moonlight” best picture fiasco.
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