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Satyajit Ray received numerous awards and honours, national and international, for his directorial, literary and artistic accomplishments. In fact, awards had begun to come his way years before he tried his hand at filmmaking. |
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1936 Wins first prize for his picture published in Boys’ Own Paper magazine published in London |
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1955 Receives the first public ovation for Pather Panchali at Senate Hall, Calcutta, on 23 September. |
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1956 Receives Gold Medal for cover illustration at International Cover Illustration exhibition in New Delhi. |
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1957 Civic reception at Ranji Stadium, Calcutta, on return from Venice with the Golden Lion of St. Mark for Aparajito. |
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1958 Receives Padmashree award from the Government of India. |
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1959 Receives Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. |
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1960 Member of Jury at Vienna International Film Festival.
Receives Special Honour from the University of California, Berkeley.
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1961
BETA Films of the Federal Republic of Germany selects him as one of the six best film directors of the world.
Chairman of Jury, Berlin Film Festival.
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The Magsaysay Award |
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1962
Member of Jury, Berlin Film Festival.
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1963 Chairman of Jury, Moscow Film Festival.
Time magazine selects him as one of the eleven best directors of the world.
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1965 Chairman of Jury, Third International Film Festival of India, New Delhi.
Receives Padmabhusan award from the Government of India.
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1966 Receives Special Award of Honour at Berlin Film Festival. |
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1967 Receives Magsaisai Award, Manila.
Receives Sahitya Akademi Award for Professor Shonku, his book for children.
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Receiving President's Awards from Dr. Radha Krishnan the philosopher and president |
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1968 Visits Film Festival at Melbourne as Special Guest.
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Special Golden Lion, Venice Festival, 1982 as one of the greatest directors of world cinema between 1932 and 1982 |
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1971 Receives the Star of Yugoslavia Award.
Receives Ananda Puraskar (Ananda Award) for literature in Calcutta.
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1972 Member of Jury at Teheran and Toronto International Film Festivals.
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1973 Conferred Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) by Delhi University.
Awarded Golden Hugo by Chicago Film Festival Committee.
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1974 Conferred Doctorate by Royal College of Arts, London.
Presents State Awards to Marathi films.
Delivers convocation address at the 12th Convocation of the Film & Television Institute of India.
Entry on Ray in the new edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Chairman of Jury, Fifth International Film Festival of India.
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Headless Angel award by Cannes Festival, 1982 as one of the greatests of all time along with Chaplin and Kurosawa |
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1975 Honoured by British Film Society as The Most Distinguished International Film Director in the Last Half Century.
Honoured by Pune Civic Corporation.
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1976 Receives Padmabibhusan award from the Government of India.
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1977 Chairman of Jury, Sixth International Film Festival of India.
Invited to deliver the Norton Lectures at Harvard University, USA.
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1978 Conferred Doctorate of Literature by Oxford University, UK.
Awarded Deshikottama by Visva Bharati University, Shantiniketan.
Receives Special Award at Berlin Film Festival as one of the three all-time best directors along with Charles Chaplin and Ingmar Bergman
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1979 Receives Special Award at Moscow Film Festival as one of the best nine directors of the 20th century.
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1980 Conferred Doctorate of Literature by Burdwan and Jadavpur Universities.
DAVP inaugurates a mobile exhibition in Bangalore to mark the 25th year of Pather Panchali.
Indian Postal Department releases special cancellation to commemorate the occasion.
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1981 Conferred Doctorate (Honoris Causa) by Benaras University.
Conferred Doctorate of Literature by North Bengal University.
Receives Sisir Kumar Sahitya Puraskar (Sisir Kumar Literary Award).
Receives Phatik Smriti Puraskar (Fatik Memorial Award) from Shishu Sahitya Sansad for Ekei Bale Shooting, his book for children.
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1982 Receives Headless Angels Trophy, award for special contribution to world cinema, at Cannes Film Festival.
Awarded Golden Lion of St. Mark as one of the world’s best ten film directors at Venice Film Festival where he was invited to be Member of Jury.
Receives Visconti Award at Rome Film Festival.
Chairman of Jury, Manila Film Festival.
Receives Vidyasagar Puraskar (Vidyasagar Award) for children’s literature from the Government of West Bengal.
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1983 Receives fellowship of British Film Institute. |
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1985 Conferred Doctorate of Literature by the University of Calcutta.
Receives Soviet Land Nehru Award.
Honoured with Dada Saheb Phalke Award.
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1986 Conferred fellowship of Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi.
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1987 Conferred Doctorate of Literature by Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta.
Receives Dadabhai Naoroji Memorial Award.
Receives Children’s Literature Award from National Council of Educational Research and Training for his book, Tintoretor Jishu.
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Ray, just after winning the Golden Bear for 'Distant Thunder', 1973, in Berlin Film Festival |
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1989 Receives Legion of Honour, the highest honour in France.
Receives the Best Foreign Short Story Award from France.
Receives Shankardev Award from the Government of Assam.
Receives Orson Welles Award from the University of California Santa Cruz, USA.
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1990 Receives Shiromoni Puraskar (Shiromony Award) from Asian Paints. |
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1991 Receives Special Award from Tokyo Film Festival Committee.
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1992 Receives Special Oscar Award for lifetime achievement in filmmaking from Academy of Motion Pictures, USA.
Honoured as National Research Professor in India.
Conferred Bharat Ratna, the highest honour in India, by the Government of India.
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1994 Release of Satyajit Ray stamp by the Indian Postal Department. |
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2006 Lifetime achievement award , Golden Dolphin, Portugal.
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