What is Satyajit Ray?
{{Infobox Actor |name = Satyajit Ray |image = Satyajit Ray in New York (cropped).jpg |imagesize=220px |caption = Satyajit Ray in New York |birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1921|5|2}} |birth_place = [[Kolkata]], India |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1992|4|23|1921|5|2}} |death_place = [[Kolkata]], India |awards = '''[[Academy Awards]]''': *Academy Honorary Award :1992 Lifetime Achievement '''Film Fare Awards''' *Best Movie - Critics :1978 ''Shatranj Ke Khiladi'' *Best Director :1979 ''Shatranj Ke Khiladi'' }} '''Satyajit Ray''' ({{Audio|SatyajitRay2.ogg|''Shottojit Rae''}}) (2 May 1921–23 April 1992) was a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] Indian [[movie director]]. Many people consider him as one of the greatest film-makers of 20th century [[movie]] business.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.britannica.com/biography/Satyajit-Ray |title=Satyajit Ray |last=Robinson |first=W. Anderson |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151226041408/http://www.britannica.com/biography/Satyajit-Ray |archivedate=26 December 2015 }}</ref> He was born in the city of [[Kolkata]]. His [[Bengali people|Bengali]] family was prominent in arts and letters. Ray studied at Presidency College and at the Visva-Bharati University. He started his career as a commercial artist. Ray was interested in filmmaking by meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and seeing the Italian movie ''Bicycle Thieves'' during a visit to London. Ray directed thirty-seven movies. These include feature movies, [[documentary|documentaries]] and [[short subject|shorts]]. Ray's first movie, ''Pather Panchali'', won eleven international prizes, including ''Best Human Document'' at [[Cannes Film Festival]]. This movie along with ''Aparajito'' and ''Apur Sansar'' form the ''Apu trilogy''. Ray did [[screenplay|scripting]], casting, [[Sheet music|scoring]], cinematography, art direction, editing and designed his own credit titles and publicity material. He was a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, graphic de