List of Indians Who Won the Oscar Awards- Natu Natu Wins

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Indians Who Won the Oscar Awards

About Oscar Awards

Generally called as Academy Awards are also known as Oscars. It is a prestigious award given to artists of different fields to recognise and acknowledge their artistic and technical merit in the movie industry. It is an annual award presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It was established in 1927, but the tradition of presenting a gold-plated statuette commonly known as Oscar was initially started in 1929. The venue of the award ceremony is Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

It is considered to be the most significant award in the movie industry as it recognises the best talents globally and later it leads to the rise of the winner as they receive better work offers, pay hikes, and worldwide media recognition.

Indians Who Won the Oscar Awards: Academy Awards Categories

Since the talents are picked from various fields of the cinema industry, so we have provided you with the list of categories in which the awards are given. These are the 24 below-mentioned categories:

Best Picture
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Director
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Production Design
Best Editing
Best Original Score
Best Original Song
Best Costume Design
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Sound Mixing
Best Sound Editing
Best Visual Effects
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Animated Feature Film
Best Animated Short
Best Live Action Short
Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short

Till date, 7 times India has made it to the list of Oscars winners. We have provided the list with the information related to them.

5 Indians Who Won the Oscar Awards

1. Bhanu Athaiya

Category – Best Costume Design

bhanu athaiya won Oscars aka Academy awards and made India proud

Bhanu Athaiya is the first person from India to win Oscar. She is a famous costume designer who won Oscar for the 1982 historical film Gandhi. She has worked with various other projects with the eminent personalities not just from Bollywood, but also from Hollywood.

2. Satyajit Ray

Category – Honorary Award

Satyajit Ray won Oscars aka Academy awards and made India proud

One of the most recognised and appreciated name of Indian Cinema is Satyajit Ray who is known for his extraordinary filmmaking skills. His work is studied as case studies by filmmaking students globally. He contributed a lot both to Indian and Bengali cinema.

His first assignment with the name Pather Panchali won many national and international accolades including the Best Human Document at the Cannes film festival in 1955. In 1992, He was awarded Oscar for Lifetime Achievement.

3. Resul Pookutty

Category – Best Sound Mixing

resul pookutty won Oscars aka Academy awards and made India proud

Sound engineer Resul Pookutty won the award for the movie Slumdog Millionaire in the category of Best Sound Mixing at the 81st Oscars. He won the award along with Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke. He dedicated the award to the country in his speech of winning.

4. A.R. Rahman

Category – Best Original Score and Best Original Song

Indian like A R Rahman who won Oscars aka Academy awards and made India proud

5. Gulzar

Category – Best Original Song

Gulzar won Oscars aka Academy awards and made India proud

‘Jai Ho’ song which is considered to be one the finest masterpieces of India was nominated in various categories at the 81st Academy awards and it was awarded for its originality. Popular lyrist Gulzar won an Oscar in the category of Best Original Song.

6. Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga

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Category – Best Documentary Short

Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga’s Netflix documentary short, The Elephant Whisperers, has won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short category at the 95th Academy Awards. With this, they became the first Indian filmmakers to claim competitive Oscars.

7. M.M. Keeravaani and Chandrabose

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Category – Best Original Song

RRR song “Naatu Naatu” has won the Oscar for Best Original Song at the 95th Academy Awards. Composed by MM Keeravani, with lyrics by Chandrabose and vocals by Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava.

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RRR's Naatu Naatu in the category of Best Original Song and Guneet Monga's The Elephant Whisperers in the category of Best Documentary Short film wins at the Oscars 2023.