List of Indian Academy Award winners and nominees

Indian individuals and films have received or been nominated in different categories of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscar).

As of 2023[update], 21 Indians have been nominated and 10 have won Oscars including in the scientific and technical category.

In 1992, legendary Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray was bestowed with an Honorary Academy Award.

[8] In 2000, M. Night Shyamalan became the first Indian-American to receive an Oscar nomination for his 1999 film The Sixth Sense.

Resul Pookutty and A. R. Rahman won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing and Best Original Score, respectively, for the 2008 British film Slumdog Millionaire.

A picture of Bhanu Athya.
Bhanu Athaiya became the first Indian to win an Academy Award for designing the costumes for Richard Attenborough 's Gandhi (1982).
A portrait of Satyajit Ray.
India's only Oscar Honorary Academy Award recipient (in 1992) director Satyajit Ray (Born in Kolkata , Bengal , now West Bengal , into a Bengali Hindu family of Mymensingh , Bengal , now Bangladesh ). He received this award for his lifetime achievement in Bengali cinema.