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Received an Honorary Academy Award.
The Academy recognized Ray’s rare mastery of motion pictures and his profound influence on filmmakers and audiences.
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Filmmaker, writer, and illustrator
PHOTO: Dinu Alam / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Made precise, humane cinema while shaping nearly every part of the work from script and image to music and type.
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Completed The Apu Trilogy.
Pather Panchali, Aparajito, and Apur Sansar formed a landmark coming-of-age trilogy later restored by the Academy Film Archive.
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Completed Pather Panchali as his first film.
The independently made feature introduced Ray internationally and began the story of Apu.