A. R. Rahman won two Academy Awards in 2009 for the music of which film?
- A.Lagaan
- B.Slumdog Millionaire
- C.Life of Pi
- D.Gandhi
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Slumdog Millionaire, the film directed by Danny Boyle and set in Mumbai. A. R. Rahman won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and, with the lyricist Gulzar, for the Best Original Song Jai Ho. At the same ceremony Resul Pookutty won the award for sound mixing, so four Indians were honoured for one film.
Option A, Lagaan, was nominated in 2002 in the foreign language film category but did not win, although its music was also by Rahman. Option C, Life of Pi, based on the novel by Yann Martel and set largely on the sea with an Indian boy as its hero, won four Oscars in 2013, but its score was written by Mychael Danna. Option D, Gandhi, won eight Oscars in 1983, including the costume design award of Bhanu Athaiya, but its music was not Rahman's.
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Practice Questions
View allWho among the following is the first Indian to get an Oscar Award?
- A.Bhanu Athaiya
- B.Satyajit Ray
- C.AR Rahman
- D.Resul Pookutty
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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.
Read the full explanation →The Emmy Awards, seen in the news, are presented for excellence in which of the following fields?
- A.Music
- B.Literature
- C.Cinema
- D.Television industry
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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.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following is the first female from India to win a Grammy award?
- A.Monali Thakur
- B.Neeti Mohan
- C.Tanvi Shah
- D.Palak Muchhal
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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.
Read the full explanation →Bhanu Athaiya won her Academy Award in which category?
- A.Best Actress
- B.Best Costume Design
- C.Best Original Score
- D.Best Documentary
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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.
Read the full explanation →Satyajit Ray received an Honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement in which year?
- A.1983
- B.1985
- C.1992
- D.2009
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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.
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