More accolades for Monsoon Wedding Mira Nair's runaway hit gets Hollywood Movie Of The Year nomination

The Hollywood Film Festival and the Hollywood Discovery Awards are aimed at spotting budding talent among independent filmmakers.

This year, Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding has been nominated for the Hollywood Movie Of The Year Award. Created by The New York Times's best-selling authors and producers Carlos de Abreu and Janice Pennington, the nominations include top notch films like Steven Spielberg's Minority Report, Sam Mendes's Road To Perdition, Doug Liman's The Bourne Identity, Alfonso Cuaron's Mexican film Y Tu Mama Tambien and Joel Zwick's My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Monsoon Wedding won its fair share of accolades and acclaim. Though it didn't make it to the Oscars, it won a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film. The film also won a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The film also won the Audience Award at the Canberra film festival in Australia.

The New York Times review said, about the movie, 'Like the monsoon rains that temper Delhi's summer heat, this movie offers subtle surprises." And Rolling Stone wrote, 'Director Mira Nair... aims for pure joy and achieves it.'

For Nair, who has made critically-acclaimed films like Salaam Bombay! and Kamasutra, the idea of Monsoon Wedding came from Punjabi weddings shown in Hindi films.

The film was a runaway success in the US and grossed around $13 million.

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