Bhanu
Athaiya
Bhanu
is
the
first
Indian
to
win
the
prestigious
award.
Bhanu
Athaiya
won
the
Oscar
award
way
back
in
1983
for
Best
Costume
Design
(Gandhi).
Aamir
Khan,
Ashutosh
Gowariker
'Lagaan'
was
the
third
Indian
film
to
be
nominated
for
the
Academy
Award
in
Best
Foreign
Language
Film
category
after
Mother
India
(1957)
and
Salaam
Bombay!
(1988).
AR
Rahman
The
second
Indian
made
a
record
bywinning
2
Oscar
Awards
in
2009
for
Best
Original
Score
as
well
as
the
Best
Original
Song
(Slumdog
Millionaire).
Shekhar
Kapur
For
Elizabeth
Director
Shekhar
Kapur's
Hollywood
film
franchise
,
Elizabeth
I
(1998)
starring
Oscar
winner,
Cate
Blanchett
got
earned
seven
Oscar
nominations
and
won
1.
His
sequel
'Elizabeth:
The
Golden
Age'
won
Best
Costume
Design.
Cate
was
nominated
for
Best
Actress
both
the
times.
This
pic
is
from
the
UK
premiere
of
Elizabeth
I.
Freida
Pinto
The
Indian
actress
started
her
career
in
Hollywood
and
her
first
film,
'Slumdog
Millionaire'
where
she
played
the
lead
role
along
with
Dev
Patel
was
nominated
for
10
Academy
Awards
in
2009,
winning
most
for
any
film
of
2008
(8
wins),
including
Best
Picture,
Best
Director,
and
Best
Adapted
Screenplay.
Slumdog
Millionaire
Indian
stars
Irrfan
Khan,
Freida
Pinto,
Anil
Kapoor,
Dev
Patel,
Madhur
Mittal
and
AR
Rahman
posed
together
at
the
Oscar
red
carpet
before
winning
8
out
of
10
Oscar
nods
in
2008,
becoming
the
only
film
to
win
majority
of
awards
that
year.
Asihwarya
Rai
Bachchan
Aishwarya
Rai
has
acted
in
many
Hollywood
movies
and
is
a
well
known
face
at
the
Cannes
Film
Festival
since
14
years.
However,
the
former
Miss
World
made
her
Oscar
red
carpet
debut
in
2011.
John
Abraham
&
Deepa
Mehta
and
Lisa
Ray
Deepa
Mehta's
directed
movie,
'Water'
made
it
to
the
Oscars
in
2007
for
Best
Foreign
Language
Film
category.
Mallika
Sherawat
The
Indian
actress
has
acted
in
a
few
Hollywood
movies
which
did
not
make
it
to
the
Oscars.
However,
she
made
her
presence
felt
in
2011.
Mallika
is
however
a
common
face
at
the
Cannes
every
year.
Resul
Pookutty
The
sound
engineer
from
Kerala
also
swept
away
an
Oscar
Award
in
2009
for
Best
Sound
Mixing
in
Slumdog
Millionaire.