List of Academy Award-winning films

This is a list of Academy Award-winning films. This list contains many films that won Academy Awards up to and including the 87th Academy Awards held on February 22, 2015.

List of films

If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title. Any column in this list may be sorted by clicking the arrow symbol to the right of the desired column heading.

Note: Competitive awards are separated from honorary awards, as such any films that were awarded the latter will be shown in brackets next to the number of competitive wins.

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Viswanathan Ravichandran

Viswanathan Ravichandran also known as (Aascar V. Ravichandran) is an Indian film producer and distributor in Chennai (formerly known as Madras), India. He was born in Vellore and completed his graduation from Voorhees College, Vellore. He is younger brother of Mr.Sridhar, MD of (Celebrity Pictures) & Mr. Sundar ( Viswas Pictures). He started distributing films since he was 16 years old as he was the son of a leading distributor in vellore. He is the founder and owner of the production and distribution company, Aascar Film Pvt. Ltd. Ravichandran started his venture in 1998 with the co-production of Kadhalukku Mariyadhai.

Ravichandran never attends any functions, even his own movie functions and maintains a low public profile. There are very few people in the Film Industry who have met him personally.

Career

Prior to making his name as a film producer, Ravichandran had been a leading film distributor in Tamil cinema since the late 1970s and gained attention through the distribution of Jackie Chan films across Tamil Nadu. Ravichandran made his debut as a producer in cinema through Fazil's romantic drama film Kadhalukku Mariyadhai (1997), which he co-produced with Sangili Murugan. Though Fazil offered him the opportunity to produce the Malayalam version of the film first, Ravichandran refused because he wanted his first venture to be in Tamil. The film went on to become one of the most successful films of the year, while his second venture, Vikraman's family drama Vaanathaippola (2000), received similar commercial success. His third and fourth films, Ezhil's family drama Poovellam Un Vasam (2001) and Sasi's romantic film Roja Koottam (2002), were also highly profitable ventures.