Shekhar Kapur wins Best Director for What’s Love Got To Do With It?

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Shekhar Kapur has won the Best Director award for What’s Love Got To Do With It? at the United Kingdom’s National Film Awards, held on July 3. Shekhar needs no introduction. The auteur has made some notable movies that have achieved cult status. The celebrated director’s most recent film, What’s Love Got To Do With It? was released in the UK, USA, and India and received a tremendous response globally.

Earlier this week, out of the nine categories in which the movie was nominated, the film won four awards: Best Director, Best British Film and Best Screenplay (both to Jemima Khan, former wife of Pakistani sportsman and ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan) and Best Supporting Actor (for Asim Chaudhry).

Shekhar Kapur shared a post on his social media: “Thank you @nationalfilmawards for this very unexpected honor. But this award really belongs to Team What’s Love … For a director is merely a sum total of his/her team ..”

Shekhar’s contributions to cinema have not only shaped the Indian landscape but also extended to the international stage, with his movies Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age winning Oscar Awards.

His vision for spotting talent has a proven track-record, after working with actors such as Cate Blanchett, Eddie Redmayne and Heath Ledger before they were discovered by mainstream cinema. The director is also working on a sequel to his directorial debut film Masoom, and most recently, Shekhar Kapur was also awarded the Lifetime Contribution to UK-India Relations award at IGF’s UK-India awards.

Back in home country, Shekhar is best known for the 1987 hit, Mr. India.