Lion

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Dev Patel and Priyanka Bose share an emotional moment, smiling and touching faces, in a scene from the film Lion, with onlookers in the background.

Lion

film by Davis [2016]

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Nicole Kidman
Resurgence
…from 2016 included the biopic Lion, about an Indian boy (played by Dev Patel) who becomes separated from his family, is adopted by an Australian couple, and later, as an adult, searches for his lost relatives. The drama received critical acclaim, and Kidman earned her fourth Oscar nomination. Kidman was…
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…from 2016 included the biopic Lion, about an Indian boy (played by Dev Patel) who becomes separated from his family, is adopted by an Australian couple, and later, as an adult, searches for his lost relatives. The drama received critical acclaim, and Kidman earned her fourth Oscar nomination. Kidman was…
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Dev Patel
Continued film success
…to his award-winning ways with Lion (2016). The film recounts the true story of Saroo Brierley, who as a young boy in India fell asleep on a train, wound up alone in Calcutta (Kolkata), and, after being placed in an orphanage, was adopted by an Australian family. As an adult,…
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…to his award-winning ways with Lion (2016). The film recounts the true story of Saroo Brierley, who as a young boy in India fell asleep on a train, wound up alone in Calcutta (Kolkata), and, after being placed in an orphanage, was adopted by an Australian family. As an adult,…
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