 After the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Satyajit Ray an honorary Academy Award in 1992 for his lifetime achievements, the Academy Film Archive, part of the Academy Foundation which mainly works with the objectives as "preservation, restoration, documentation, exhibition and study of motion pictures", took an initiative to restore and preserve Ray's films.Josef Lindner was appointed as a preservation officer and the Academy has successfully restored 19 titles.However, the Academy has yet to restore "Pikoo", as the information about the film could not be retrieved.