AWARDS & TRIBUTES
Akira Kurosawa Award
Year: 1992
Recipient: Satyajit Ray
Role: Director
Comments: Actress Sharmila Tagore appeared to accept the Akira Kurosawa Award for Lifetime Achievement in Directing on behalf of Satyajit Ray at a screening of The World of Apu on May 4, 1992. Ray had passed away on April 23, 1992.
Films:- The Return of Goopy and Bagha
The Craft of Cinema: Satyajit Ray
Year: 1970
Recipient: Satyajit Ray
Role: Director
Comments: November 1.
Films:
FACTOID #202
At the 1978 SFIFF, Paul Mazursky received a tribute at the Palace of Fine Arts. Apparently, the facility’s janitorial staff had not been notified, and the padlocked doors of the Palace had to be cut so the filmmaker and his audience could be let in.
