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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Explanation
The correct answer is C, 1992. 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. He died a few weeks later in the same year, and the Government of India conferred the Bharat Ratna on him in 1992 as well.
Option A, 1983, is the year Bhanu Athaiya won the costume design Oscar for Gandhi, which is the confusion this question rests on. Option B, 1985, is the year Ray was given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in India, an honour that is often mixed with the Academy award in the options. Option D, 2009, is the year of the four Oscars for Slumdog Millionaire. Ray's films, beginning with Pather Panchali of 1955, had by then been honoured at Cannes, Venice and Berlin.
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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 →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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A. R. Rahman won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and, with the lyricist Gulzar, for the Best Original Song Jai Ho.
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