Awards & Honours Quiz: Oscars and International Film Awards

She won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design in 1983 for Richard Attenborough's film Gandhi, sharing the award with John Mollo, and became the first Indian of any kind to receive an Oscar.

The Emmy awards are the American honours for work made for television, covering drama series, comedy, news and documentary programmes, and they stand in the same relation to television as the Oscars do to cinema.

She sang the Spanish lines of Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire and also wrote them, and when the song won the Grammy for Best Song Written for Visual Media in 2010 she became the first Indian woman to win a Grammy award.

Bhanu Athaiya designed the costumes for Gandhi, the film Richard Attenborough made in 1982, and shared the Academy Award of 1983 in that category with the British designer John Mollo.

A. R. Rahman won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and, with the lyricist Gulzar, for the Best Original Song Jai Ho.

The Academy gave Satyajit Ray an honorary award for his lifetime of work in cinema, and it was handed to him in a Kolkata hospital as he was too ill to travel.

Its highest award is the Palme d'Or, the Golden Palm, given to the best film of the main competition, and below it comes the Grand Prix, which Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine as Light won in 2024.

The Berlin International Film Festival, held in Germany early in the year, gives the Golden Bear to the best film and Silver Bears for direction, acting and screenplay.

Its members vote on the awards, the first ceremony was held in 1929 for the films of 1927 and 1928, and the golden statuette given to a winner is universally called the Oscar.

Its song Naatu Naatu, composed by M. M. Keeravani with words by Chandrabose, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2023, the first time a song from an Indian production had taken that award.

The trilogy follows the boy Apu from his village childhood to his life in the city, and Aparajito is the middle part of it.

BAFTA stands for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and its awards are given for films, television programmes and games made or shown in Britain.