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A. R. Rahman wins two Academy Awards

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A. R. Rahman wins two Academy Awards
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Slumdog Millionaire earned composer A. R. Rahman Oscars for both Best Original Score and Best Original Song.

A. R. Rahman made his film debut in 1992 with the Tamil film Roja and did most of his work in Tamil cinema. His score for Slumdog Millionaire (2008) received a Golden Globe. In February 2009, at the 81st Academy Awards, he took the Best Original Score award and, for Jai Ho, Best Original Song. No Asian before him had won two Academy Awards, and that year Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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