Oscars 2024: At last the moment has arrived for which the film stars were eagerly waiting. Oscar Awards 2024 will start in just a short while. The 96th Academy Award winners will be announced at the Dolby Theater in California. Audiences all over the world are keeping an eye on which film will get the award in which category this year… but do you know when India won the Oscar trophy for the first time? Let us tell you about it in detail today…
India got its first Oscar in the year 1983
In the year 1983, India won its first Oscar Award in the 55th Academy Awards. This award was won by the film ‘Gandhi’. This film received the award for Best Costume Design. Bhanu Athaiya, along with John Mollo, designed the film’s spectacular costumes. Let us tell you that Gandhi was a Hollywood film, but because of this, an Indian was awarded this award for the first time.
Bhanu Athaiya said this after winning the award
There was no limit to Bhanu Athaiya’s happiness after winning this award. He had told in an interview that even before the winner was announced, many people had told him that only he would get this award. Let us tell you that Gandhi was a very brilliant film. This film was liked very much by the audience.
Let us tell you that the film received a total of 8 awards. These include the names of Best Film, Best Director, Best New Story, Best Film Editing, Best Lead Actor, Best Art Direction, Best Photography, Best Dress Design.
Oscar nominees get this goodie bag worth crores
Let us tell you that along with the winners, the nominees are also given a special goodie bag whose price is in crores. The price of this goody bag being given to the nominees this year is said to be around Rs 1.4 crore. Let us tell you that this year more than 50 items will be given inside the bag. The most expensive gift among these is a luxury vacation in a Ski Chalet in Switzerland, which is worth Rs 41 lakh. So the cheapest gift is Rubik’s Cube, which is worth Rs 1200. The entire cost of this goody bag is not borne by the organizers of the Oscars, but by Los Angeles marketing company Distinctive Assets.
Let us tell you that this year the film ‘To Kill a Tiger’ is the only Indian film which has been nominated for Oscar 2024.
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