Bhanu Athaiya won best costume design for gandhi in 1982
Satyajit Rai
Nosmo king
Helen Hayes.
Yes, Emil Jannings was the first person to with the Oscar for Best Actor. Since this was the first Oscar presented at the first Academy Awards ceremony, he is also the firs man ever to win an Academy Award (Oscar).
Patty Duke
'Mother India' was India's first Oscar nominee. It was in 1957 though and not in 1956. India has had only three movies going to Oscars as nominees (no win). Mother India (1957), Salaam Bombay (1988) and Lagaan (2001).
Katharine Hepburn
Shirley Temple was the shortest person to win an oscar.
Katharine Hepburn
Sidney Poitier.
Sidney Poitier.
Joes Ferrer who won an Oscar for 1950's Cyrano de Bergerac.