AN OSCAR AND A NOBEL PRIZE - THE TWIN WINS - JAI HO
AN OSCAR AND A NOBEL PRIZE - THE TWIN WINS - JAI HO
The rare feat of winning an Oscar and a Nobel Prize in history was awarded to Musician and Songwriter Bob Dylan and Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw.
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter. Generally regarded as one of the greatest song-writers ever. Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his 60-year career. Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. Bob Dylan won Oscar Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2001.
George Bernard Shaw (26.07.1856-02.11.1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist. His influence on Western theater, culture, and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913), and Saint Joan (1923). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925. He won his Oscar in 1939 for Best Writing, Screenplay for his role in adapting his own play Pygmalion for the screen. Pygmalion would go on to be remade as the wildly successful musical and film "My Fair Lady".
In more than 120 years of Nobel history and 95 years of Oscar legacy, Dylan and Shaw are the only glittering stars in the elite club.
The 95th Oscar Award 2023 was conferred on "Everything Everywhere All at Once" for the best film. The film also won Best Director Award for Daniel Kwan. The Best Actor was adjudged Brendan Frazer for the Film "The Whale". The Best Actress Award was won by Michelle Yeoh for her role in "Everything Everywhere All at Once". The film also won Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Original Screenplay.
India had a share of two Oscars for the song "Nattu Nattu" from the film RRR and "The Elephant Whisperers" a documentary short film by Kartiki Gonsalves in this year's Academy Award.
The 95th Academy Awards were held at Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles, United States of America.
The Academy Awards, mainly known as the Oscars, are awards for the artistic and technical merit of the film industry. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizing excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
The first Academy Awards were handed out on May 16, 1929, at an Academy banquet in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Blossom Room, when movies had just begun to talk.
The Oscar Award winners from India :
As of 2023, 19 Indians have been nominated and 7 have won Oscars including in the scientific and technical category. Bhanu Athaiya became the first Indian to win an Academy Award for designing the costumes for Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982). Satyajit Ray won a honorary Oscar Award in 1992.
| Year | Recipient | Note | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 (64th) | Satyajit Ray | "In recognition of his rare mastery of the art of motion pictures, and of his profound humanitarian outlook, which has had an indelible influence on filmmakers and audiences throughout the world."🌎 | [11] [12] |
Competitive awards[edit]
In the 81st Academy Awards (2009) India won 4 Oscars. The film "Slumdog Millionaire" won Best Sound Mixing (Resul Pookutty), Best Lyrics (Jai Ho - Gulzar), Best Original Score, and Best Original Song (Music - A.R. Rahman). "JAI HO" a song sung by musician A.R. Rahman turned out to be the nation's craze.
A total of 7 Academy Awards and an Honorary Academy Award were won by India as of 2023.
NOBEL PRIZE :
Nobel Prize was founded by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish Chemist, Engineer, and Industrialist who invented dynamite.
Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace, while a memorial prize in Economic Sciences was added in 1968.
There are a total nine Nobel Prize winners from India from 1913 to 2023. The first Indian to win this prestigious award was Rabindranath Tagore which was given to him in 1913 for his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse.
The Nobel Laureates from India are :
| S. No. | Nobel Prize Winners | Category | Year |
| 1. | Rabindranath Tagore | Literature | 1913 |
| 2. | CV Raman | Physics | 1930 |
| 3. | Har Govind Khurana | Medicine | 1968 |
| 4. | Mother Teresa | Peace | 1979 |
| 5. | Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar | Physics | 1983 |
| 6. | Amartya Sen | Economics | 1998 |
| 7. | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | Chemistry | 2009 |
| 8. | Kailash Satyarthi | Peace | 2014 |
| 9. | Abhijit Banerjee | Economics | 2019 |
The Nobel Prize is honored in memory of Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel and was started in the year 1901.
When Alfred Nobel died in 1896, in his will he passed on his asset to be used for the establishment of prizes which are named “Nobel Prizes”. The Nobel Prize was first awarded in 1901. In 1968, a central bank of Sweden, that is, Sveriges Riksbank funded the establishment of the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences. From then onwards, the Nobel Prizes were awarded in six different fields.
1. Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was conferred with Nobel Prize in the category of literacy in 1913 for his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse. Often called Bard of Bengal and Gurudev, Tagore is one of India’s most dignified figures in India. Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to be awarded the Nobel Prize.
2. CV Raman
Sir Chandrashekhar Venkata Raman or CV Raman is recognized with Nobel Prize in 1930 in the field of Physics for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him. His discovery is also referred to as the “Raman Effect”. He is among the greatest Nobel Prize winners in India.
3. Har Govind Khurana
Har Govind Khurana was awarded the Nobel Prize in the field of Physiology or Medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis. H.G. Khurana is an Indian-American Biochemist. His research work is related to the synthesis of functional genes outside the living organism.
4. Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa was the first Indian woman to be conferred with the Nobel Prize in the category of Peace in 1979. She was born in the Republic of Macedonia. At the age of 19, she moved to India and spent the rest of her life in India as a Roman Catholic nun and as a missionary serving the “poorest of the poor” in slums in the city. Her humanitarian work led to the establishment of Missionaries of Charity.
5. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar was awarded the Nobel Prize in the field of Physics in 1983 for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars. He is an Indo-American mathematician. His invention relates to the establishment of the physical process involved in the evolution of stars.
6. Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998 in the field of Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics. He was born in Manikganj (British India). Sen studied economics and taught the subject in many reputed institutions in both the US and the United Kingdom.
7. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2009 in the field of Chemistry for his work in studies of the structure and function of the ribosome. The Nobel Prize is given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Services.
8. Kailash Satyarthi
Kailash Satyarthi was born in Madhya Pradesh and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2014 in the field of Peace for his struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. He is an activist who has dedicated his whole life to children’s rights another education spotlight.
9. Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Banerjee is an Indo-American who was conferred with the Nobel Prize in 2019 in the field of Economic Sciences. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with his wife Esther Duflo and Harvard University’s Michel Kremer.
Congratulations to Bob Dylan and the deceased George Bernard Shaw for winning this enviable twin feat of an Oscar and a Nobel Prize.
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