Two movies filmed totally or partially in India have won the Academy Award for Best Picture: "Gandhi" (1982) and "Slumdog Millionaire" (2008).
Mother India by Sir Irani won the Oscar in bollywood.
No Hindi movie has ever won an Oscar.
No, Oscar award was never won by any Marathi movie
A Passage to India won the Oscar for Music - Scoring - in 1984.
The South African movie that won an Oscar was "Tsotsi." This is a movie about a younger thug from the streets, and it was made in 2005.
"Slumdog Millionaire" was a British film about India, nominated and won in Oscars 2009.
Nobody won an Oscar for the movie, but Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for the "Best Actor in a Supporting Role" Oscar for his work in the movie.
Sophia Loren won Best Actress for Two Women (1961), the movie's only Oscar nomination.
"Dances with Wolves" won in 1990. "Birdman" won in 2014.
The movie won one Oscar- for Original Score.
India Woned eight Oscar currently.