An Introduction to the Oscar Awards
The Oscar Awards are awarded for artistic and technical merit in the film industry. The Oscar awards are popularly known as the Academy Awards. This award is considered the most prestigious award in the entertainment industry globally. The Oscars are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) every year. The Academy Awards are international recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements. There are different categories of awards at the Oscars. The winners of different categories are awarded a golden statuette as a trophy. The golden statuette is officially called "The Academy Award of Merit". The first Oscar awards were organized at a private dinner function at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on May 16, 1929, with a small gathering. Every year people in the entertainment industries are appreciated for their work through the Academy Awards. The recent 93rd Academy award was held on 26th April 2021.
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The List of all Indian Oscar winners and nominees from India is given below. The Indian oscar winners list is consists of the category of award, year, and name of oscar-nominated Indian movies.
List of Oscar Award Winners and Nominees From India
Bhanu Athaiya: Bhanu Athaiya is a costume designer. She has worked in more than a hundred Indian and international films. She received the "Best Costume Designer" award for Gandhi at the 55th Oscar Award ceremony in 1983. This movie was directed and produced by Richard Attenborough. She became the first person of Indian origin who receive the Oscar award.
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Satyajit Ray: Satyajit Ray is one of the greatest filmmakers of India of the 20th century. He is a famous Bengali film producer. He received the "Honorary Award" in 1992 at the 64th Oscar Award ceremony for his remarkable contributions to world cinema. Satyajit is the first and only Indian to receive this honorary award.
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Rasool Pukutty: Rasool Pukutty is a popular sound designer, sound editor. He is also a mixer of Hindi cinema, Tamil cinema, Malayalam cinema, and Hollywood cinema. He was awarded in the category of Best Sound Mixing along with Richard Peker and Ian Tape at the 81st Oscar Award ceremony for the film "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2009.
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A. R. Rahman: A.R.Rahman is a famous Indian musician and singer. He had worked in different national and international films. He received the Oscar award for the film Slumdog Millionaire in the category of "Best Original Score" and "Best Original Song" at the 81st Oscar Award ceremony in 2009. He was also nominated for the film 127 Hours in the category of "Best Original Score" and "Best Original Song" at the 83rd Oscar Award ceremony in 2011.
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Gulzar: Gulzar is a famous Hindi film songwriter and poet. He was awarded for the film ‘Slumdog Millionaire' in the Best Original Song category in 2009 at the 81st Oscar Award ceremony.
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Mehboob Khan: Mehboob Khan is a popular producer and director of Indian Hindi cinema. He became the first whose film was nominated in the Oscar Award ceremony. At the 30th Oscar Award ceremony, Mother India, a film of Mehboob Khan was nominated in the "Best Foreign Film" category in 1958.
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Ismail Merchant: Ismail Merchant is of Indian origin, British producer, and director of Indian origin. He was nominated four times in the Oscar Awards for different films but could not become one of the Oscar award winners in India. At the 33rd Oscars Award ceremony, his movie called "The Creation of Woman" was nominated in the "Best Short Film" category in 1961. At the 59th Oscar Awards ceremony in 1987, his film "A Room with a View" was nominated in the "Best Movie" category. At the 65th Oscar Awards ceremony his movie "Howard’s end" was nominated in the "Best Movie" category in 1993 and "The Remains of the Day" in the "Best Movie" category at the 66th Oscar Awards in 1994.
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Vidhu Vinod Chopra and K.K. Kapil: Vidhu Vinod Chopra and K.K. Kapi is a famous Hindi film producer and director. At the 51st Oscar Awards ceremony, their movie named "An Encounter of Faces" was nominated in the category of "Best Short Documentary Film" in 1979.
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Ravi Shankar: Ravi Shankar is a famous sitarist and music composer. He was nominated in the "Best Original Score" category for Richard Attenborough's film "Gandhi" at the 55th Oscar Awards ceremony in 1983.
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Mira Nair: Mira Nair is of Indian origin, an American producer and director. At the 61st Oscar Awards ceremony, Salaam Bombay, a film by Mira Nair was nominated in the "Best Foreign Film" category in 1989.
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Ashutosh Gowariker: Ashutosh Gowariker is a famous Indian film director. His film Lagaan was nominated in the category of Best Foreign Film at the 74th Oscar Awards ceremony in 2002.
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Ashwin Kumar: Aswin Kumar is a renowned independent filmmaker. His short film "Little Terrorist" was nominated at the 77th Oscar Awards ceremony in 2005 in the category of "Best Short Film".
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Deepa Mehta: Deepa Mehta is a Canadian director and film writer of Indian origin. At the 79th Oscar Awards ceremony, Her movie called Water was nominated in the category of "Best Foreign Film" in 2007.
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Bombay Jayashree: Bombay Jayashree is a popular Carnatic singer and composer. She was nominated for the film "Life of Pie" in the "Best Original Song" category at the 85th Oscar Awards of 2013.
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Dev Patel: Dev Patel is an Indian-born British actor. He was nominated at the 89th Oscar Awards ceremony in 2017 for his film "Lion" in the category of "Best Supporting Actor".
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Did You Know?
Total eight Academy Awards are won by the Oscar award winners in India.
FAQs on Oscar Award List From India
1. Which Indian film was nominated for an oscar in 2021?
The 93rd Academy Awards was held in 2021. The final list of nominations for the Academy Awards was announced by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on 15th March 2021. There were 366 movies that took place on the list. Among them, some Indian films have become part of the list. Oscar nominated Indian movies are Tamil film Soorarai Pottru, Odia movie Kalira Atita. The White Tiger has been nominated under the category of Best Adapted Screenplay. The movie Soorarai Pottru was based on the life and times of Simplifly Deccan founder G. R. Gopinath.
2. Who is the first Indian director to win the Oscar award?
Most Indian Oscar winners are from the field of music, composition, and costume designing. There are still no Oscar-winning actors in India. Many Indian directors had been nominated for the award but could not become winners. Asif Kapadia is the first Indian director to win an Oscar award for his film Amy in the category of Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards in 2013. He is of Indian origin British filmmaker. Amy is a documentary film based on the storyline of the life and death of British singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse.
