OSCARS 2019

Feb. 26, 2019

"Period. End of Sentence", produced by Guneet Monga and directed by Rayka Zehtabchi won Oscar in the Documentary Short Subject category. The film set in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur district depicts how rural women learned to produce low-cost sanitary pads.

Key winners of the 91st Academy Awards (Oscars):

Best Picture: Green Book. The movie is about the story of an unlikely friendship across racial divides. It is backed by Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Entertainment's Amblin Entertainment.
Best Director: Filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron (for his movie 'Roma', a film about a housekeeper in a middle-class family in the 1970s).
Best Actress: Olivia Colman (for her potrayal of Queen Anne in the movie "The Favourite").
Best Actor: Rami Malek (for his potrayal of Queen musician Freddie Mercury in the movie "Bohemian Rhapsody").
Best Original Song: Lady Gaga (for "Shallow" from her feature debut "A Star is Born").
Guneet Monga is an Indian film producer and the founder of Sikhya Entertainment, a film production house that produced notable films like Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1, Peddlers and The Lunchbox, Masaan, and Zubaan. Monga's 2018 production Period. End of Sentence. won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject.