# Satyajit Ray

> He made 36 films, most of them in Bengali, from a corner of India the global industry barely noticed - and the world's festival juries, critics, and filmmakers bent toward Calcutta anyway. His first feature won at Cannes in 1956; decades later he held prizes from all three major European festivals, a distinction no other Indian director has matched.

*Indian filmmaker and writer (1921-1992)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Movie Director ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Directors
- **Country:** India
- **Born:** 1921-05-02
- **Died:** 1992-04-23
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Ray was born in Calcutta in 1921 to author Sukumar Ray, and started as a commercial artist before a 1950 trip to London changed the trajectory. Watching De Sica's Bicycle Thieves and meeting Jean Renoir (in India shooting The River) pulled him toward narrative film. He returned and began Pather Panchali in 1955, scripting, casting, scoring, editing, and designing the credits himself. That film and its two sequels, Aparajito (1956) and Apur Sansar (1959), became The Apu Trilogy. Over the next three decades he directed works including The Music Room (1958), The Big City (1963), Charulata (1964), and the Goopy-Bagha trilogy, while writing short fiction and creating recurring characters - Feluda the detective, Professor Shonku the scientist. He collected thirty-seven Indian National Film Awards, a Golden Lion, a Golden Bear, two Silver Bears, an honorary Oscar in 1992, and the Bharat Ratna the same year, weeks before his death on 23 April.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 70.4

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006249/ (@nm0006249)
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.satyajitray.org/

## Timeline
- **1992** - Died
- **1992** - Bharat Ratna
- **1987** - Commander of the Legion of Honour
- **1982** - Golden Lion
- **1978** - National Film Award for Best Children's Film
- **1973** - National Film Award for Best Music Direction
- **1972** - National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film
- **1968** - National Film Award for Best Feature Film
- **1967** - Bodil Award for Best American Film
- **1955** - Pather Panchali
- **1921** - Born

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