Fazal plays the role of Indian servant Abdul to Dench’s Queen Victoria in the film directed by Stephen Frears, which received two nods at the 90th Academy Awards.
The British-American biographical drama, based on the book by Shrabani Basu, narrates the story of a unique bond between the two titular characters – different in age, ethnicity, position and gender.
While Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick took home the golden statue for their jaw-dropping work in transforming Gary Oldman into Winston Churchill, Mark Bridges won the trophy for Paul Thomas Anderson’s American period drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis.