Who among the following is the first Indian to get an Oscar Award?

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  1. Bhanu Athaiya
  2. Satyajit Ray
  3. AR Rahman
  4. Resul Pookutty

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Option 1 : Bhanu Athaiya
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The correct answer is Bhanu Athaiya.

  • Bhanu Athaiya became the first Indian to win an Academy Award in 1983 for designing the costumes for Richard Attenborough's Gandhi.
    • She jointly won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design with John Mollo for Richard Attenborough's "Gandhi".

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  • At the 30th Academy Awards, Mehboob Khan's 1957 Hindi-language film Mother India was India's first submission for the Academy Award for the Best International Feature Film category.
    • It was nominated along with four other films and lost by one vote to the Italian film Knights of Cabiria (1957).
    • In 1982, the National Film Development Corporation of India was instrumental in co-producing the Richard Attenborough biographical film Gandhi.
    • Bhanu Athaiya became the first Indian to win an Academy Award for costume design at the 55th Academy Awards.
    • Ravi Shankar was nominated for Best Original Score for the same film. As of 2021, apart from Mother India, only two Indian films have been nominated for an Oscar – Salaam Bombay! (1988) and Lagaan (2001).

Additional Information

  • The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry.
    • First awarded May 16, 1929

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