Resul Pookutty selected as voting member in Oscar Academy

The Oscar Academy has selected Resul Pookutty as one of its voting members. Pookutty, who received the Oscar for sound mixing last year for the Danny Boyle film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, is the third Indian to have selected to the position.

Pookutty was selected as one among the 135 voting members, all of whom are executives and film professionals, in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science. Pookutty has reportedly expressed his pleasure at having been given the voting right to select films for the Oscars.

Resul Pookutty was born in a village in Kollam district in southern Kerala. He joined the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune after completing BSc Physics. He worked in several Bollywood films before joining Danny Boyle’s film. He hit the news headlines when he won the Oscar last year for the film which bagged several Oscars including one for music maestro AR Rahman. Pookutty was less known to Keralites till the Oscars. After the Oscars, Pookutty is all the more busy, now with Malayalam films too in the list besides Tamil and Hindi.

Report by: WNN