Mira Nair

The New York-based Indian filmmaker Mira Nair's debut film Salaam Bombay!, about the city's street children, won an Oscar nomination in 1989. Her biggest hit to date is Monsoon Wedding, about an Indian family preparing to get their daughter married in grand style. Her 2007 film, The Namesake, based on Jhumpa Lahiri's book about a migrant Indian family in the U.S., was co-produced by UTV and Fox Searchlight.