Awards & Winners

Satyajit Ray

Date of Birth 02-May-1921
Place of Birth Kolkata
(India, West Bengal, Kolkata district)
Nationality India
Also know as Ray, Satyajit, God, Manik, मनिक, राय, सत्यजित, गॉड, Ray, रे, रे , सत्यजित
Profession Film Director, Film Score Composer, Film Producer, Screenwriter, Writer, Lyricist, Music Director
Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker, regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of world cinema. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist 1948 film Bicycle Thieves during a visit to London. Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, graphic designer and film critic. He authored several short stories and novels, primarily aimed at children and adolescents. Feluda, the sleuth, and Professor Shonku, the scientist in his science fiction stories, are popular fictional characters created by him. Ray's first film, Pather Panchali, won eleven international prizes, including Best Human Documentary at the Cannes Film Festival. This film, Aparajito, and Apur Sansar form The Apu Trilogy. Ray did the scripting, casting, scoring, and editing, and designed his own credit titles and publicity material. Ray received many major awards in his career, including 32 Indian National Film Awards, a number of awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies, and an Academy Award in 1992. The Government of India honoured him with the Bharat Ratna in 1992.

Awards by Satyajit Ray

Check all the awards nominated and won by Satyajit Ray.

1991


Academy Honorary Award
(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)
Venice Film Festival FIPRESCI Award
Honored for : The Visitor

1984


Dadasaheb Phalke Award
(Awarded as a Director)

1979


Filmfare Award for Best Director
Honored for : The Chess Players

Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Filmfare Award for Best Director The Chess Players

1978


National Film Award for Best Children's Film
Honored for : Joi Baba Felunath
Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie
Honored for : The Chess Players

1977


National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi
Honored for : The Chess Players

1976


Karlovy Vary Special Jury Prize
Honored for : The Middleman

1975


National Film Award for Best Direction
Honored for : The Middleman

1973


Golden Bear
Honored for : Distant Thunder

1969


Bodil Award for Best American Film
Honored for : Pather Panchali

Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Bodil Award for Best American Film Pather Panchali

1968


National Film Award for Best Direction
Honored for : The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha
National Film Award for Best Feature Film
Honored for : The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha

Nominations 1968 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Film Award for Best Feature Film The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha

1967


Bodil Award for Best American Film
Honored for : Nayak: The Hero
Bodil Award for Best American Film
Honored for : Aparajito
National Film Award for Best Direction
Honored for : Chiriyakhana
Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts
Kinema Junpo Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Honored for : Pather Panchali

Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Bodil Award for Best American Film Aparajito

1966


National Film Award for Best Screenplay
Honored for : Nayak: The Hero
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali
Honored for : Nayak: The Hero

1965


Silver Bear for Best Director
Honored for : The Lonely Wife

1964


National Film Award for Best Feature Film
Honored for : The Lonely Wife
Silver Bear for Best Director
Honored for : The Big City

1963


Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Film Award for Best Feature Film The Big City

1962


Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Film Award for Best Feature Film The Expedition
BAFTA Award for Best Film The World of Apu

1961


National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali
Honored for : Two Daughters
National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film
Honored for : Rabindranath Tagore

Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali Two Daughters

1960


National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali
Honored for : Devi
National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Honored for : The World of Apu
(India)

Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali Devi

1959


National Film Award for Best Feature Film
Honored for : The World of Apu
Sutherland Trophy
Honored for : The World of Apu

Nominations 1959 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Film Award for Best Feature Film The World of Apu
BAFTA Award for Best Film Aparajito

1958


BAFTA Award for Best Film
Honored for : Pather Panchali
BAFTA Award for Best Film
Honored for : Aparajito
National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Honored for : Pather Panchali

Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali The Music Room
National Film Award for Best Feature Film The Music Room
BAFTA Award for Best Film Pather Panchali

1957


Venice Film Festival FIPRESCI Award
Honored for : Company Limited
Golden Lion
Honored for : Aparajito

1955


National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali
Honored for : Pather Panchali
National Film Award for Best Feature Film
Honored for : Pather Panchali

Nominations 1955 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Film Award for Best Feature Film Pather Panchali