Satyajit Ray

Directing

Born 1921-05-02 Died 1992-04-23 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India] 94 credits BAFTA Awards 2 National Film Award for Best Bengali Feature Film 9 National Film Award for Best Direction 6 National Film Award for Best Feature Film 6 National Film Award for Best Screenplay 4

Awards

Won 2 BAFTA Awards

BAFTA Awards 2 won · 1 nominated

1962 Best Film Nominated Apur Sansar
1959 Best Film Won Aparajito
1958 Best Film Won Pather Panchali

National Film Award for Best Bengali Feature Film 9 won

1989 Best Bengali Feature Film Won An Enemy of the People
1984 Best Bengali Feature Film Won The Home and the World
1980 Best Bengali Feature Film Won Hirak Rajar Deshe
1974 Best Bengali Feature Film Won Sonar Kella
1973 Best Bengali Feature Film Won Distant Thunder
1966 Best Bengali Feature Film Won The Hero, Nayak
1961 Best Bengali Feature Film Won Teen Kanya
1960 Best Bengali Feature Film Won Devi
1955 Best Bengali Feature Film Won Pather Panchali

National Film Award for Best Direction 6 won

1991 Best Direction Won The Stranger
1975 Best Direction Won The Middleman, Jana Aranya
1974 Best Direction Won Sonar Kella
1970 Best Direction Won Pratidwandi
1968 Best Direction Won Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
1967 Best Direction Won The Zoo, Chiriyakhana

National Film Award for Best Feature Film 6 won

1991 Best Feature Film Won The Stranger
1971 Best Feature Film Won Seemabaddha
1968 Best Feature Film Won Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
1964 Best Feature Film Won Charulata
1959 Best Feature Film Won Apur Sansar
1955 Best Feature Film Won Pather Panchali

National Film Award for Best Screenplay 4 won

1993 Best Screenplay Won The Broken Journey
1974 Best Screenplay Won Sonar Kella
1970 Best Screenplay Won Pratidwandi
1966 Best Screenplay Won Nayak

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Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was a Bengali Indian filmmaker, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. 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 film Bicycle Thieves (1948) during a visit to London. Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, music composer, 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. He was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University. Ray's first film, Pather Panchali (1955), won eleven international prizes, including the inaugural Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. This film, along with Aparajito (1956), and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (1959) 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 Honorary Award in 1992. The Government of India honored him with the Bharat Ratna in 1992.