Ryo Sugimoto Born in 1976.
 Sugimoto worked on number of films as an art assistant under Production Designer Mitsuo Harada and Yohei Taneda.
 Sugimoto joined NOUVELLE VAGUE Co.,Ltd .
 in 2005, has worked on films such as "AEGIS"and "Tokyo Tower" as a set designer and was the art director on "BABEL"(Dir: Alejandro González Iñárritu) which won the Art Excellence in Production Design Award(2006) from the Art Directors Guild.
 Sugimoto was the first Production Designer for Junji Sakamoto "Chameleon"(2007), and is the Production designer for "Map of the sounds of Tokyo" directed by Isabel Coixet.
 Sugimoto also provides designs for commercials, music videos and interiors,
Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko (born in 1946) is a French production designer and art director.
 He is a César Award winner and 6 times nominee.
Chris Gorak is an American film director who started as an art director and production designer.
 He directed the 2006 film "Right at Your Door" and the 2011 film "The Darkest Hour".
 Gorak began working in the film industry in the 1990s as an art director.
 In the 2000s, he worked on several films as production designer before becoming a film director.
T. MuthuRaj (born July 29, 1969, Coimbatore, India) is an Indian film production designer.
 He entered the film industry after completing his B.Sc.
 degree in fine arts as first assistant to Sabu Cyril after which he has served as production designer in critically acclaimed and celebrated films in major Indian languages.
 His big break came in the 1997 Malayalam film "Guru" starring Mohanlal and Suresh Gopi, directed by Rajiv Anchal, for which he received the Kerala State Film Award for Best Art Director.
 Muthuraj has since worked in such path breaking hits as "Arputha Theevu", "Angaditheru", "Pazhasi Raja", "Irumbukottai Murattu Singham" and "Avan Ivan".
 He has contributed to the success of 43 feature films and 185 commercials.
 He has won many film awards for best art direction and for his creative works.
 His latest work is "Nanban" (2012) directed by Shankar, which has won huge appreciation from all quarters.
Aparna Raina is a National Award Winning Production Designer.
 She started her Career in 2006 as an Art Assistant with the film Khosla Ka Ghosla and a Set Dresser in the critically Acclaimed film The Namesake.
 Since then she has worked on Several Films as Art Director and Production Designer.
 She was recently recognized for her work in the Hit Konkani Film Nachom - ia Kumpasar, for "convincingly recreating spaces from a different era and with minute attention to detail".
 She was awarded the 62nd National Film Awards for Best Production Design for Nachom - ie Kumpasar.
The César Award is the national film award of France.
 It is delivered in the "Nuit des César " ceremony and was first awarded in 1976.
 The nominations are selected by the members of twelve categories of filmmaking professionals and supported by the French Ministry of Culture.
 The nationally televised award ceremony is held in the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris each year in February.
 It is an initiative from the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma which was founded in 1975.
Rajat Poddar is a Production Designer, Art Director from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India.
 He started his career in 1995 in Mumbai, when he started working in the film industry as an assistant art director.
 After a couple of years of apprenticeship, he started on his own as an art director with a television show called Khiladi.
 After having done several television serials as a production designer and art director, he got his first feature film Saaya, that released in the year 2002.
Art department in movie terms means the section of a production's crew concerned with visual artistry.
 Working under the supervision of the production designer and/or art director, the art department is responsible for arranging the overall "look" of the film (i.e. modern/high-tech, rustic, Victorian, etc.) as desired by the film director.
 Individual positions within this department include: production designer, art director, assistant art director, storyboard artist, concept artist, draftsman, art department coordinator, set decorator, set dresser, makeup artist, painter, property master, leadman, swing gang, production buyer, Film sculptor, and property assistant.
Sabu Cyril is an Indian film Production Designer.
 He has won National Film Award for Best Production Design four times, Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction (including south) five times and he was nominated at 42nd Saturn Awards.
 His work in "Enthiran" won him international recognition.
 Over the years, he has emerged to be the most expensive and celebrated art director in the country.
V. K. Prakash is an Indian director who has worked on films, music videos, and commercials.
 He has worked on Malayalam, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada and Hindi films, although he is mainly active in Malayalam cinema.
 Born in a Malayali family in Mumbai, and currently based in Bangalore, he runs his own ad film production company called "Trends Adfilm Makers Pvt Ltd".
 He studied in the School of Drama, Thrissur before commencing his career in the ad film industry.
 V. K. Prakash's first film "Punaradhivasam" received the awards for National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam, Kerala State Film Award for Best Debut Director and Kerala State Film Award for Best Story.
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 The second National Film Award was awarded for Nirnayakam as The Best Film on Social Issues in 2016.

Question: Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko is a production designer and art director and the winner of a national film award of Francewhich was first awarded in what year?
Answer: 1976