8. Year Original Title International
title
LANGUAGE
1992
The Branches
of the Tree
Bengali
1992 The Stranger Bengali
1990
An Enemy of
the People
Bengali
1987 Sukumar Ray Bengali
1984
The Home and
The World
Bengali
1981
The
Deliverance
Hindi
1980
The Kingdom of
Diamonds
Bengali
1980 Pikoo's Day Bengali
1979
The Elephant
God
Bengali
9. Year Original Title International
title
LANGUAGE
1977
The Chess
Players
• Hindi
• Urdu
• English
1976 Bala English
1975 The Middleman Bengali
1974 The Fortress Bengali
1973
The Distant
Thunder
Bengali
1972 The Inner Eye Bengali
1971
A Company
Limited
Bengali
1971 Sikkim English
1970 The Adversary Bengali
1969
Days and Nights
in the Forest
Bengali
10. Ray received many awards, including 32 National Film Awards by the Government of
India, and awards at international film festivals. At the 11th Moscow International
Film Festival in 1979, he was awarded with the Honorable Prize for the contribution
to cinema.At the Berlin International Film Festival, he was one of only three
filmmakers to win the Silver Bear for Best Director more than once and holds the
record for the most number of Golden Bear nominations, with seven. At the Venice
Film Festival, where he had previously won a Golden Lion for Aparajito(1956), he
was awarded the Golden Lion Honorary Award in 1982. That same year, he received
an honorary "Homage à Satyajit Ray" award at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.
Ray is the second film personality after Chaplin to have been awarded an
honorary doctorate by Oxford University. He was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke
Award in 1985 and the Legion of Honor by the President of France in
1987. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan in 1965 and the
highest civilian honor, Bharat Ratna, shortly before his death. The Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Ray an Honorary Oscar in 1992 for
Lifetime Achievement. It was one of his favorite actresses, Audrey Hepburn, who
represented the Academy on that day in Calcutta. Ray, unable to attend the
ceremony due to his illness, gave his acceptance speech to the Academy via live
video feed from the hospital bed. In 1992 he was posthumously awarded the Akira
Kurosawa Award for Lifetime Achievement in Directing at the San Francisco
International Film Festival; it was accepted on his behalf by actress Sharmila
Tagore.
In 1992, the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll ranked Ray at No. 7 in its list of "Top
10 Directors" of all time, making him the highest-ranking Asian filmmaker in the
poll. In 2002, the Sight & Sound critics' and directors' poll ranked Ray at No. 22 in its
list of all-time greatest directors, thus making him the fourth highest-ranking Asian
filmmaker in the poll. In 1996, Entertainment Weekly magazine ranked Ray at No.
25 in its "50 Greatest Directors" list. In 2007, Total Film magazine included Ray in its
"100 Greatest Film Directors Ever" list.