Indian Oscar Winners List: From Bhanu Athaiya, A R Rahman To Resul Pookutty

The
94th
annually
awards
hosted
by
The
Academy
of
Motion
Picture
Arts
and
Sciences
is
all
set
to
take
place
coming
weekend
in
Los
Angeles.
Over
the
years
many
international
films
have
also
been
celebrated
Best
International
Feature
Film
category
and
recent
films
have
also
been
nominated
in
the
Best
Picture
category.

In
the
history
of
Academy
Awards,
several
Indian
artists
have
also
been
celebrated
on
the
international
platform
beginning
with

Mother
India,
which
was
India’s
first
submission
and
was
nominated
for
the
International
Feature
film
category.

Let’s
take
a
look
at
the
Indian
artists
and
films
that
brought
home
Oscars
home,

CODA
Wins
Top
Prize
At
Producers
Guild
Awards,
Gains
Momentum
For
Oscar
Best
Picture

Bhanu
Athaiya
Bhanu
Athaiya
became
the
first
Indian
artist
to
win
the
Academy
Awards
for
Best
Costume
Design
for
her
work
in
the
1982
film
Gandhi.
Notably,
the
late
designer
passed
away
in
2020.

Satyajit
Ray
Revolutionary
filmmaker
Satyajit
Ray
was
awarded
an
Honorary
Oscar
for
Lifetime
Achievement
in
1992.

A
R
Rahman
A
R
Rahman
was
nominated
for
Best
Original
Score
category
for
127
Hours,
as
well
as
for
the
film’s
song
If
I
Rise
in
the
Best
Original
Song
category.
However,
the
music
maestro
won
two
Oscars
–
one
for
the
original
score
in
Slumdog
Millionaire
and
another
for
the
song
Jai
Ho
from
the
same
film
at
the
81st
Academy
Awards.

Gulzar
Gulzar
also
won
his
Oscar
at
the
81st
Academy
Awards
for
Slumdog
Millionaire
for
the
Best
Original
Song
–
Jai
Ho.

Resul
Pookutty
Sound
designer
Resul
Pookutty
also
won
Oscar
for
Best
Sound
Mixing
for
his
work
on
Slumdog
Millionaire
in
2009.
He
is
known
for
working
on
several
Hindi,
Malayalam
and
British
films.

Most
Oscar
Winning
Actors
And
Actresses
List:
From
Katharine
Hepburn,
Meryl
Streep
To
Tom
Hanks
&
Others

For
Oscars
2022,
the
Indian
documentary
Writing
With
Fire
directed
by
Rintu
Thomas
and
Sushmit
Ghosh
has
earned
a
nomination
in
the
Best
Documentary
Feature
category.
The
94th
Academy
Awards
will
take
place
on
March
28,
2022
at
5:30
am
IST
for
the
Indian
audience.