05-12-2022 : The Best Director Award went to director SS Rajamouli for his work on RRR at the 2022 New York Film Critics Circle. This group is among the first critics’ organisations to comment on the awards season. Many people were astonished by Rajamouli’s victory considering his rivals, who included Gina Prince-Blythewood, Sarah Polley, Steven Spielberg, and Darron Aronofsky.

In “RRR,” a fictional pre-independence story, Ram Charan and Jr. NTR play Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem, two real-life Indian revolutionaries of the 1920s. After earning more than Rs 1200 crore at international box offices, the movie became one of the biggest hits in India and was hailed as a triumph by local reviewers. The official Indian submission for the 2023 Oscars was not chosen, nevertheless.