Oscars won by Indians

Oscars won by Indians

Subject : International relations

Section : Awards and Prizes

Context: India had scored this year’s Oscars — For Best Original Song (RRR song “NaatuNaatu”), and Best Documentary Short (Kartiki Gonsalves-directed The Elephant Whisperers).

Concept:

About Oscars:

• The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the global film industry.
• Given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
• The 1st Academy Awards were held in 1929 at a private dinner hosted by Douglas Fairbanks in The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
• 1958: Though not an official entry, Mehboob Khan’s Mother India (1957) was the first Indian film to receive an honorary  mention in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 30th Academy Awards.
• 1961: At the 33rd Oscars, producer Ismail Merchant’s 13-minute short film The Creation of Woman (1961) and directed by Charles F Schwep was nominated in the Best Short Subject (Live Action) category.

NaatuNaatu -RRR

• Crew :Composer MM Keeravani and lyricist Chandrabose,KaalaBhairava the two singers of ‘NaatuNaatu’, along with Rahul Siplingunj
• ‘RRR’ is set in 1920, it tells a fictionalised story of two real-life Indian revolutionaries, Sitharama Raju (who fought against the British Raj) and Bheem (who fought against the Nizam of Hyderabad).
• The film was inspired by ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ (2004), the biopic of Argentine Marxist revolutionary leader Che Guevara, which is set in the period before he became famous.

The Elephant Whisperers

• Gonsalves is the first Indian to win in the short documentry category.
• Kartiki Gonsalves ( won as a debut director)  and Guneet Monga’s Netflix documentary short, Produced by Achin Jain and Guneet Monga, and directed by Kartiki Gonsalves, the 41-minute short follows the family from Tamil Nadu’s Mudumalai Tiger Reserve who end up adopting two orphan baby elephants
• Featuring the charming Raghu and Ammu, and Bomman and Bellie,it truly is a testament to,the ‘sacred bond between us and the natural world and respect for indigenous communities