Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray was a Bengali Indian filmmaker. In 1992, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences awarded Ray an honorary "Oscar" for "Lifetime Achievement".
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An "Oscar" Novelty – Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray is rated by many as one of the five great filmmakers in the history of World Cinema. The following biography attempts a brief sketch of the life and works of the Maestro.

Ray & Rabindranath: Architects of Indian Cinematic and Literary Renaissance
Satyajit Ray and Rabindranath Tagore may perhaps be half a century apart from each other yet their sense of responsibility to respond to the zeitgeist and a profound sense of humanity emanating from their cinematic or literary works connect them as Renaissance-men, suggesting pioneering conceptions both in films and literature.