Aishwarya Rai is a two-time winner of the Filmfare Best Actress Award, and has been nominated for Filmfare Awards eleven times.[37][111] She has won numerous times at the International Indian Film Academy Awards, Star Screen Awards, Zee Cine Awards, and others. In 2009 Rai was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest Indian civilian award, for her contributions to Indian cinema.[112] In 2001 Forbes named Rai among the top five Indian movie stars.[113] In a reader poll conducted by UK's Hello! magazine, she was voted "the most attractive woman of 2003".[114] In the same year, Rai appeared in Rolling Stone magazine's annual "Hot List".[115] In 2004 she was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the world's most influential people, and appeared on the cover of its 2003 Asia edition.[116][117][118] In October 2004 a wax figure of Rai was put on display in London's Madame Tussaud's wax museum.[119] She was the sixth Indian and the second Bollywood personality—after her father-in-law, Amitabh Bachchan—to get this honour. In 2007 the same figure was displayed at Madame Tussaud's Museum in Times Square in New York.[120]
In 2005 she was the subject of a 60 Minutes profile on 2 January, which said that "at least according to thousands of Web sites, Internet polls and even Julia Roberts", she was "the world's most beautiful woman".[4] The same year, a tulip in the Netherlands was named "Aishwarya Rai" after her.[121] Also in 2005, Mattel released a limited edition of Barbie dolls of Aishwarya Rai in the United Kingdom.[122] The British magazine Maxim ranked Rai first on their list of "Hottest Women of India".[123]
Rai appeared on such shows as Late Show with David Letterman, and was the first Bollywood personality to appear on Oprah's "Women Across the Globe" segment. In 2005 Harpers and Queen's list of "Most Beautiful Women in The World" ranked her ninth.[124] In May 2006 Aishwarya was featured in People Magazine as one of the "World's Most Beautiful People".[125] The UK magazine Eastern Eye ranked her third in the list of "Asia's Sexiest Women" in 2006,[126] and she was ranked eighth in 2009.[127] In 2008 American television channel E!: Entertainment listed Aishwarya's eyes as the sexiest on their Sexiest Body Parts list.[128] In 2009 she made appearances on Martha Stewart's show Martha and on the The Tyra Banks Show.[129][130] In the same year Forbes listed Rai at 387th out of 1,411 actors on their list of the most bankable stars in Hollywood. She is the highest-ranked Indian actor on the list.[131][132]
In 2009, Rai refused to accept the second-highest Order Of France, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, as her father was suffering from a serious illness, and she wanted her whole family to attend the award ceremony.[133] She is the fourth Indian actor—after Sivaji Ganesan, Nandita Das, and Shahrukh Khan—to be chosen for the award. Amitabh Bachchan was chosen for another Order Of France, the Legion of Honour.[134] In June 2009 she was declared the Female Star of The Decade at the tenth International Indian Film Academy Awards, held in Macau.[135] In December 2010 she was declared the "Actress of the Decade" at the BIG Star Entertainment Awards.[136] In March 2011 Rai was honoured by Karnataka Chief Minister B. S. Yeddyurappa at World Kannada Meet (Vishwa Kannada Sammelana) for her contributions to the arts.[137] Later that month she was presented with the "Decade of Global Achievement Honour" by FICCI.[138] She attended the 83rd Academy Awards, along with her husband, Abhishek.
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