 His contributions to the British film magazine "Sight and Sound" have permanent archival value.He has studied closely the work of his friend Satyajit Ray, and his 1980 book "The Cinema of Satyajit Ray" remains one of the definitive works on Ray.In 2004 Chidananada Das Gupta was honoured at the Osian Film Festival, 2004, with a Lifetime Achievement Award for writing on cinema.