Question

Who has been awarded OSCAR in the year 2016 for documentary film category?
1. A.R. Rehman
2. Asif Kapadia
3. Deepa Mehta
4. R. Balki

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Asif Kapadia

The Correct Answer is Asif Kapadia.

• Asif Kapadia has been awarded OSCAR in the year 2016 for the documentary film category.
• Asif Kapadia is a British filmmaker who was born in 1972.
  • Two of his early award-winning films are The Warrior (2001), which won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film 2003, and The Sheep Thief (1997), which won the 2^nd Prize Cinéfondation for Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival.
• He directed the documentary film Senna (2010), which won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the World Cinema Audience Award Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.
  • It was based on Ayrton Senna (famous for his accomplishments in motor racing).
• In 2016, he received an Oscar and a Grammy Award for his film Amy, based on singer Amy Winehouse, which became the highest-grossing documentary of all time in the United Kingdom and earned him an Oscar and a Grammy Award.

• A.R. Rahman of Bollywood
  • He won Oscars for original score and original song in Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire," making him the first Indian composer to win an Oscar.
• Funny boy is Deepa Mehta's second Oscar nomination in the category of International Feature Film.