List of Academy Award winners and nominees from India

This is the list of Indians and persons of Indian origin who are Academy Award (informally known as Oscar) winners and nominees. As of 2016, eleven Indians have been nominated for a total of fourteen Oscars, five Indians of whom have won a total of six Oscars. Three Indian films have been nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

Satyajit Ray is the only Indian who has received an Honorary Academy Award, and A.R.Rahman is the only Indian who has won more than one Academy Award. In 1982, The National Film Development Corporation of India was instrumental in co-producing Richard Attenborough's Academy Award for Best Picture winning film Gandhi.^[1][2]

Bhanu Athaiya became the first Indian to win an Academy Award in 1983, for designing the costumes for Richard Attenborough's Gandhi.

Satyajit Ray became the first Indian to receive an Honorary Academy Award in 1992.

Gulzar became the first Indian lyricist to receive an Academy Award for penning Jai Ho. He has also been awarded with India's highest film honor Dadasaheb Phalke award.

A.R.Rahman became the first Indian to win two Academy Awards in 2009.

Winners and nominees

List of the Indian Oscar nominee(s)/recipient(s), also showing the year, film, category, and result

Year	Nominee(s)/recipient(s)	Film	Category/Honorary Award	Result/received	Ref.
1958 (30th)	Mehboob Khan	Mother India	Best Foreign Language Film	Nominated[N 1]	[3]
1961 (33rd)	Ismail Merchant	The Creation of Woman	Best Short Subject (Live Action)	Nominated	[5]
1979 (51st)	K.K.Kapil	An Encounter with Faces	Best Documentary (Short Subject)	Nominated	[6]
1983 (55th)	Bhanu Athaiya	Gandhi	Best Costume Design	Won	[7]
	Ravi Shankar		Best Original Score	Nominated
1987 (59th)	Ismail Merchant	A Room with a View	Best Picture	Nominated	[8]
1989 (61st)	Mira Nair	Salaam Bombay!	Best Foreign Language Film	Nominated	[9]
1992 (64th)	Satyajit Ray		Honorary Award[N 2]	Received	[12]
1993 (65th)	Ismail Merchant	Howards End	Best Picture	Nominated	[13]
1994 (66th)	Ismail Merchant	The Remains of the Day	Best Picture	Nominated	[14]
2002 (74th)	Ashutosh Gowarikar	Lagaan	Best Foreign Language Film	Nominated	[15]
2005 (77th)	Ashvin Kumar	Little Terrorist	Best Short Subject (Live Action)	Nominated	[16]
2007 (79th)	Deepa Mehta	Water	Best Foreign Language Film[N 3]	Nominated	[17]
2009 (81st)	Resul Pookutty	Slumdog Millionaire	Best Sound Mixing	Won	[18]
	A.R.Rahman		Best Original Score	Won
	A.R.Rahman and Gulzar		Best Original Song	Won
2011 (83rd)	A.R.Rahman	127 Hours	Best Original Score	Nominated	[19]
	A.R.Rahman		Best Original Song	Nominated
2013 (85th)	Bombay Jayashri	Life of Pi	Best Original Song	Nominated	[20]
2016	Deep Thakkar	DreamWorks Animation Media Review System	Sci-Tech Award	Won	[21][22]
2016	Cottalango Leon	Sony Pictures Imageworks Itview	Sci-Tech Award	Won	[23][24]
2016	Asif Kapadia		Best Documentary Feature	Won

See also

• List of Indian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Notes

1. Mother India lost to Nights of Cabiria by one vote.^[3][4]
2. "In recognition of his rare mastery of the art of motion pictures, and of his profound humanitarian outlook, which has had an indelible influence on filmmakers and audiences throughout the world."^[10][11]
3. Water was nominated from Canada.^[17]

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