9 Indians Who Made Us Proud By Winning The Oscar

Sajan Skaria won an Oscar for his work in the popular animation film, 'Inside Out' which won the Best Animated Feature Film. Sajan was the character supervisor of the film. With his spectacular achievement, Sajan has become the second Malayali to win an Oscar, after Resul Pookkutty. He has worked in Pixar Animation Studios and was part of movies like 'Toy Story' and 'Finding Nemo'.

Asif Kapadia, the indian British filmmaker made us Indians proud by winning the Oscar for best documentary feature for his production 'Amy'. His tribute to the jazz and pop singer Amy Winehouse has won him BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, Best Editing and the World Cinema Audience Award Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival with 'Amy' becoming the highest grossing documentary of all time in the United Kingdom.

The Indian-American software inventor jointly won the Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement in 2016. Thakkar won the Academy Award for creating the "groundbreaking design" of DreamWorks Animation Media Review System, a scalable digital film review platform and became the most recent Indian to bag the coveted award.

The Tamil Indian-American computer graphics technician jointly won the Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement in 2016. Leon won the Academy Award for "the design, engineering and continuous development" of Sony Pictures Imageworks it View technology, a digital 3D film review software. In a ceremony held on 13 February 2016 at Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, Leon received the Academy Award jointly with Sam Richards and J. Robert Ray.

Allah-Rakha Rahman popularly known as A R Rahman became the only Indian who has won Oscar not once but, twice. The music maestro shared the Best Original Score award with Gulzar for his song “Jai Ho”. He went on to grab his first individual and the second Oscar when he won in the category of Best Original Score for the very same movie “Slumdog Millionaire”.

Sampooran Singh Kalra, known popularly by his pen name Gulzar, is an Indian poet, lyricist and film director. The legendary composer and singer shared the award of Best Original Song for the song “Jai Ho” in 2008 for 'Slumdog Millionaire'. Gulzar wrote the lyrics for the song and became the first Indian lyricist to win an Oscar.

Resul Pookutty is an Indian sound designer, editor and mixer and shared the Oscar award for Best Sound Mixing with Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke in 2008. He won the award for his contribution in the movie Slumdog Millionaire.

Satyajit Ray, considered God of Bengali cinema, is the most prolific Indian filmmaker of the 20th century. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award at the Oscar's in the year 1992. He could not attend the ceremony to accept the award due to his illness and he was in the hospital during that time. Although, he gave his award acceptance speech through a live video feed from the hospital bed.

Bhanu Athaiya née Rajopadhye is the first Indian who won the Academy Award in the year 1982 for Costume Design for Richard Attenborough's film 'Gandhi'. She has worked with many big names like Yash Chopra, Guru Dutt, Ashutosh Gowarikar and Raj Kapoor. Jon Mollo also shared the award with her.