MUMBAI: India's first Oscar statuette won by legendary Indian costume designer Bhanu Athaiya at the 55th Annual Academy Awards in 1983 for her work in Lord Richard Attenborough's epic film Gandhi has finally made its way back to its original home - the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), Los Angeles. The Academy collected the historical statuette last week (December 8) from Athaiya's South Mumbai workshop.
Additionally, she has donated some papers and photographs relating to Gandhi and her designing work including photos with the Gandhi team, newspaper articles, a 1983 telegram from Attenborough sent to Athaiya congratulating her on her nomination, a congratulatory letter on her nomination sent by the late film producer-director Ramanand Sagar among others.
Earlier this year, Athaiya had publicly declared that she intended to return her Oscar statuette to the Academy so they could maintain it for posterity. She says, "I do not trust anyone in India to keep it. If Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel medal could be stolen from Santiniketan, what is the guarantee my trophy would be safe? In India, no one values such things and we lack a tradition of maintaining our heritage and things pertaining to our culture. In the past, many Oscar winners have returned their trophies for safekeeping with the Academy such as eight-time Oscar-winning costume designer Edith Head among others."
Athaiya was slated to travel to L.A. in 2013 and personally hand over the trophy to the Academy. However, after she was diagnosed with a life threatening brain tumor in June this year, Athaiya decided to return it as soon as possible. In an email officially accepting Athaiya's donation, Scott Miller, Assistant General Counsel and Managing Director of Administration, AMPAS, wrote to her saying, "The Academy is honoured to receive back your statuette. As you mentioned, we were donated Edith Head's Oscars (along with Ms. Head's career papers and drawings, which are part of the collections at the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library). Many other artists have also donated their statuettes and personal papers to the Academy for their perpetual safekeeping and public education. And those statuettes are always treated and displayed with dignity at the Academy's exhibitions and galleries. Also, we are in the process of creating the finest motion picture museum in the world, and I'm certain it (Athaiya's statuette) will find a place to be displayed there." Athaiya has signed and handed over a Deed of Gift to the Academy to ensure that the Oscar will forever remain in the Academy's hand.
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