India has a variety of people possessing a variety of talents. India has showcased its talent to the world a lot of times in a lot of ways. Be it sports, fashion, music, or film making, India is nowhere behind any other country in the world. In fact not many times but some times India has been appreciated at the international platforms as well.
Oscar is one such event which recognised the talent India has and appreciated it by awarding it with one of the biggest awards in the field of entertainment.
Why is an Oscar Given Such an Importance?
Like people say, importance is not earned without any cause. There is an obvious reason behind such importance given to the Oscars. Only one person in the world is awarded with it every year in each category. Being chosen as the best in the entire world is not less than a dream or an achievement for the artist.
Hence, the Oscar or Academy Award is considered so prestigious.
Indians Getting Nomination in The Oscars
Imagine the number of movies being released every year in different languages all over the world. But all these movies don’t get the chance to be in the race for Oscar. The movie which gets a nomination is certainly iconic.
India has always been famous for its film making. In 1958, Mother India became the first Indian film to be nominated for the Oscar. Apart from that, Some famous movies like Gandhi, Salaam Bombay!, Lagaan, Slumdog Millionaire, Life of Pi got the nomination for the Academy Award in different categories.
Indians Who Won the Oscar Award
Being a part of a race is important but having the capability to win the race is more important. All who got nominations didn’t win the award. Only a few of them did.
Here is a list of 5 times India won the Oscar
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- Bhanu Athaiya- Best Costume Designer- Gandhi
In 1983, India brought its first Oscar Award. For the movie Gandhi, a film completely based on the life of the father of nation Mahatma Gandhi, Bhanu Athaiya won the Oscar award for the best costume design.
Obviously, a woman that too from India getting an award for designing, how could the newswriters stay silent on this. They couldn’t accept the fact that an Indian woman can get an Oscar in the category of costumes. But obviously, if she got an Oscar, she must be talented. There can be no doubt in that.
She has worked for about 100 movies in Bollywood and designed for many popular actors. She got the fame and award because she deserved it.
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- Satyajit Ray- Honorary Award- Lifetime Achievement
For everyone who is known to filmmaking, Satyajit Ray has not been anything less than an inspiration. He had created a number of masterpieces in both Hindi and Bengali languages. His first film was good enough to win several national and international awards.
His style of filmmaking was considered different which was influenced from Old Hollywood as well as Bengali literature. A lot of filmmakers were inspired by his style. He was not just a filmmaker, he was like a magician who used to add soul and essence to the character, dialogues and entire film.
Considering the influence he had on the filmmakers around the world, He was awarded the Oscar as an honorary award for his lifetime achievement in 1992 when he was hospitalised and couldn’t even attend the event.
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- A.R. Rahman- Best Original Song- Slumdog Millionaire
Everyone who is attached to music in any way is a fan of AR Rahman for sure. According to me, being a music lover means admiring the magic AR Rahman does in his every composition. His songs make the listener fall in love for music all over again.
His talent has never gone unnoticed. He is the only Indian to get BAFTA, Golden Globe, Grammy and Academy Award as well. Not just one, he won two Oscars for the movie Slumdog Millionaire. One for the Best Original Score and one for the Best original song (Jai Ho)
A.R. Rahman started his music career in 1992 movie Roja whose songs are extremely popular till now.
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- Resul Pookutty- Best Sound Mixing- Slumdog Millionaire
The 2008 movie Slumdog Millionaire became extremely popular for its music and credit goes to everyone behind that. Academy Awards appreciated and awarded Resul Pookutty with the Oscar as well for the Best Sound Mixing.
He is a popular Sound designer in India who has worked in various movies in South Indian languages.
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- Gulzar- Best Original Song- Slumdog Millionaire
Gulzar, the person is as poetic as his name is. A very popular Indian lyricist who has worked in a lot of bollywood movies. He is no less than a magician who can just turn a simple line in a poem with his talent. India has seen a lot of talented poets and he is one of them.
For the song Jai Ho for the movie Slumdog Millionaire, he was awarded with the Oscar.
Oscar is an international recognition and I am sure India has more talented people who are able to represent them at an International platform and bring more and more awards to the country.
Written By: Nidhi Jha
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